2,820 km2 (1,090 sq mi) flood season: 20,000 km2 (7,700 sq mi)
Ramsar Wetland
Official name
Dong-ting hu
Designated
31 March 1992
Reference no.
551[1]
Dongting Lake
"Lake Dongting" in Chinese characters
Chinese
洞庭湖
Literal meaning
"Grotto Court Lake"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Dòngtíng Hú
Wade–Giles
Tung4-t'ing2 Hu2
IPA
[tʊ̂ŋ.tʰǐŋ xǔ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Duhng-tìhng Wùh
Jyutping
Dung6-ting4 Wu4
IPA
[toŋ˨tʰeŋ˩ wuː˩]
Southern Min
Tâi-lô
Tōng-tîng Ôo
Map showing Lake Dongting and the major rivers flowing into it
Dongting Lake (Chinese: 洞庭湖) is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan Province, China. It is a flood basin of the Yangtze River, so its volume depends on the season. The provinces of Hubei and Hunan are named after their location relative to the lake: Hubei means "North of the Lake" and Hunan, "South of the Lake".[2]
Dongting Lake is famous in Chinese culture as the place of origin of dragon boat racing. It is the site of Junshan Island and is home to the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise.[2]
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(6.6 ft), it is the third-largest freshwater lake entirely in China, after Poyang and Dongting. The lake contains about 90 islands, ranging in size from...
Xiang cuisine, consists of the cuisines of the Xiang River region, DongtingLake and western Hunan Province in China. It is one of the Eight Great Traditions...
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soldier under the leadership of Zhong Xiang. Yang helped occupy the DongtingLake area in the modern-day Hunan Province with some 80,000 other soldiers...
'Jun Mountain Island') is an island in Hunan province in China on DongtingLake. The name derives from the legend of the Xiang River goddesses. It is...
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The Xiang River is the chief river of the LakeDongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest...
of the Xiang River in Chinese folk religion. The Xiang flowed into DongtingLake through the ancient kingdom of Chu, whose songs in their worship have...
east. Loushui River is a tributary of Lishui River. It flows into the DongtingLake at Xiaodukou in Jinshi. Its total length is 388 kilometres (241 mi)...
hills, with numerous shallow lakes. Large lakes include Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, and DongtingLake which was formerly the largest...
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