Called Chang 'an in ancient times, Xian is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization in the Yellow River Basin area of the country.

西安古称长安，是黄河流域的国家地区的古文明的发祥地之一。

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Brazil, the world's fifth largest country by area, has 5.3 million square kilometers of jungle and forests — mostly in the Amazon river basin — of which only 1.7 million are under state protection.

巴西是世界上国土面积第五大的国家，有530万平方公里的森林覆盖面积——大部分是在亚马逊河流域——但其中只有170万平方公里的森林受国家保护。

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Miluo River total length of 253 km, the basin area of 5,543 square kilometers.

汨罗江全长253公里，流域面积达5543平方公里。

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New York City gets roughly half its water from the Delaware River Basin, a key area for hydraulic fracturing.

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It covers an area roughly half the size of France within the Upper Paraguay River Basin, extending over the border into Paraguay and Bolivia.

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Those tours were on a 1.5-mile section in a 2, 000-acre park called the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, and the permits sold out in a matter of hours, denying large numbers of river lovers a legal chance to ply the waters.

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