Xi Jiang
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Xi Jiang
also Si Kiang (sē' kyäng', shē')A river, about 2,011 km (1,250 mi) long, rising in southeast China and flowing generally eastward to the South China Sea near Guangzhou.
Xi (shē) or Xi Jiang (shē jyäng), great river of S China, c.1,250 mi (2,010 km) long, rising in E Yunnan prov. and flowing generally E through Guangxi and Guangdong provs. to the South China Sea near Guangzhou; the Kui, Bei, and Dong rivers are its chief tributaries. The Xi flows mainly through narrow, confined valleys. At the junction with the Bei, W of Guangzhou, the Xi forms the vast Pearl River delta (2,890 sq mi/7,485 sq km), consisting of a maze of channels and canals. The densely populated delta is one of China's chief economic areas; agriculture (rice, sugarcane, fruit) predominates. One of China's principal inland waterways, the Xi is navigable for large ships along almost half of its length. It is also called the West River.
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Xi may refer to:
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- Xi (letter), a Greek letter
Places
- Xi (state), an ancient Chinese state during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties
- Xi County, Henan, China
- Xi County, Shanxi, China
- Xi River, western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China
People
- Xi (surname), any of several Chinese surnames
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- Xi Jinping, vice president of China
- Kumo Xi, an ancient Manchurian people
Other
- Xi, a Latin digraph used in British English to write the sound /kʃ/
- Xi (alternate reality game), the world's first console-based alternate reality game
- Xi baryon, a range of baryons with one up or down quark and two heavier quarks
- Xi, Japanese name for the video game Devil Dice
- Xi, a brand name for an LTE telecommunications service in Japan
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