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Yangtze River Mouth

One of Earth's great rivers, the Yangtze flows into the East China Sea just to the northeast of Shanghai delivering a heavy load of suspended sediment to the coastal ocean. The above Landsat 8 view was collected on August 16, 2020. Click on it to get a much larger (75 megabyte) version that also includes Hangzhou Bay to the south.