The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River, also known as Chang Jiang in Chinese, stretches over approximately 6,300 kilometers (3,917 miles). It flows from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China to the East China Sea near Shanghai. As the third-longest river in the world, it surpasses the lengths of other major Asian rivers such as the Lena, Indus, and Brahmaputra Rivers.