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How many people were made homeless by the 1931 Yellow River flood?
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The Yellow River (Huang He) basin and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) basin and their drainage networks.
The 1931 Yellow River flood left approximately 80 million people homeless.12
It is important to note that while the 1931 flood was a catastrophic event affecting multiple river basins in China, the figure of 80 million specifically refers to the displacement caused by the Huang He floods of that year. Reports concerning the Yangtze River floods of 1931 often cite different statistics, such as 40 million people left homeless in that specific basin.123