Ganjiang - Sightseeing

Japanese: 贛江 - かんこう
Ganjiang - Sightseeing

The largest river in Jiangxi Province, China. It belongs to the Yangtze River system. It has two sources, the eastern source Gongshui in the Wuyi Mountains, and the western source Zhangshui in the Dayu Mountains, one of the Nanling Mountains, and they join at Ganzhou. The character Gan is a combination of the two characters Zhangshui and Gongshui. After joining, the Ganjiang flows north through Ji'an, Zhangshu, and Fengcheng before reaching Nanchang, where it branches into a dozen or so branches and flows into Lake Poyang. It is 758 km long. Its drainage area is over 80,000 square kilometers, making up more than half of Jiangxi Province, and the river is navigable downstream of Ganzhou. The Beijing-Kowloon (Hong Kong) line runs along this river.

[Michihiro Kono, June 18, 2019]

[Reference item] | Keikyu Line

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

中国、江西(こうせい)省の最大の川。長江(ちょうこう)(揚子江(ようすこう))水系に属する。源流は二つあり、東源の貢水(こうすい)は武夷(ぶい)山脈に、西源の章水は南嶺(なんれい)の一つの大庾嶺(だいゆれい)に源を発し、贛州(かんしゅう)で合流する。贛の字は源流の章水と貢水の2字を合成したものである。贛江は合流後、北流し、吉安(きつあん)、樟樹(しょうじゅ)、豊城(ほうじょう)を経て南昌(なんしょう)に至り、十数本の分流に分かれて鄱陽湖(はようこ)に入る。全長758キロメートル。流域面積8万平方キロメートル余で、江西省のなかば以上を占め、贛州より下流は航行可能である。この川に沿って京九線(北京(ペキン)―九竜(きゅうりゅう)〔香港(ホンコン)〕)が通っている。

[河野通博 2019年6月18日]

[参照項目] | 京九線

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