ASIA IMPORTANT RIVERS

NAME	SOURCE	OUTFLOW
NORTH FLOWING RIVERS FROM WEST TO EAST IN RUSSIA
Ob Tributaries: Irtysh, Tobolsk	Altail Mountain	Gulf of Ob
Yenisey	Tannuala mountain	Arctic Ocean
Lena	Lake Baikal	Arctic Ocean.
Kolyma	Kolyma Range	East Siberian Sea
EAST FLOWING RIVERS (FROM NORTH TO SOUTH)
Amur Tributary: Sungari river.	Confluence of shika and argun river.	Tatar strait
Yalu Forms a well defined border between North Korea and the Eastern Russia.		Korea Bay (Yellow Sea)
Hwang Ho The river is best known for the floods, also called ‘China’s sorrow’. It flows through loess land, hence it is also called, the yellow river.	Tibetan Plateau	The river’s course was diverted away into the gulf of Pohai instead of the yellow sea.
Yangtse kiang It is the longest river of Asia. If flows through Szechuan basin. Shangai and Wuhan are the important cities of China lying along the river.	Tibetan plateau	East China sea.
Si kiang More than half of the total silk production in china comes from the Yangtse kiang and si Kiang deltas. About 75% of the Chinese live in fertile river basin of Hwang Ho, yangtse Kiang and si kiang.	Eastern Yunan(China )	South China Sea.