Shaolin monks practice martial arts at the Pagoda Forest of the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Central China's Henan Province.

According to the Southern Research Station at the USDA, yellow poplar thrives best in the Ohio River valley and in the mountainous regions of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

Major cities along the river are Lanzhou, Baotou, Zhengzhou and Jinan. Rising at the northern foothills of the Bayanhar Mountains, the Yellow River flows past Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia ...