Flood
Open on the map1931 China flood: the Yangtze and Huai Rivers flood in a populous region
Jun 1931 – Nov 1931 · 30.58° N, 114.27° E
What the records say
- When
- Jun 1931 – Nov 1931
- Kind
- Flood
- Coordinates
- 30.58° N, 114.27° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1931 China floods.
Summary
1931 China flood: the Yangtze and Huai Rivers flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath.
5 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei Überschwemmungen des Jangtsekiang kommen in China circa 1,4 Millionen Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Juillet et août : crue du Yangzi Jiang et du Fleuve Jaune en Chine ; les inondations font de victimes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “наводнение в Китае, в котором погибло до 2 миллионов человек — крупнейшее стихийное бедствие за всю документированную историю человечества”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “これを含め、7月から11月にかけて長江や淮河などの各河川で続発した一連の1931年中国大洪水は死者が14万人から400万人まで推測され”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page