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Wei River (Shandong and Henan)

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Wei River
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaningRiver of the former state of Wey
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWèi Hé
Wade–GilesWei Ho

The Wei or Wey River is a river in northern Henan, southern Hebei, and western Shandong in China.

Beginning in the southern foothills of the Taihang Mountains in Xinxiang County in Henan, the river's former course extended past Dezhou to the Bohai Sea but these lower reaches were fully incorporated into the Grand Canal under the Yuan.[1] The Wei now serves as a tributary to the canal, joining it at Linqing, Shandong. As such, its watershed forms part of the South-North Water Diversion Project.

See also

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Wei river basin

References

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  1. ^ Kenneth, Pletcher (2023), "Dezhou", Encyclopaedia Britannica.