The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is the largest terrestrial canyon on land. It plunges into depths far beyond every other known canyon on land. The only gorge that surpasses it is the Mariana ...

While not as vast as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, the deepest canyon in the world, a similarly jaw-dropping and ...

Contents: The Yarlung Tsangpo Great Canyon, also called "the last pure land of the world," is the biggest canyon in the world. It has its unique landforms, rich biological resources, beautiful ...

Miscommunication and misunderstood geography are confounding discussions about China's planned dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo gorge.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon often comes up in debates about which canyon is truly the world’s largest, longest, or deepest; with a top-to-bottom reach in some sections of up to 17,000 feet ...

At last, the mountains fell away, and Fisher stared into one of Earth’s last hidden wonders: the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge, a lush, serpentine chasm four times deeper than the Grand Canyon.

While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors.

The river is only partially responsible for carving out the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. The region sits on tectonic plates and suffers regular earthquakes.