Which cities were inundated by the flood of 98

Cities inundated by the flooding of the Yangtze River in '98 included 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Heilongjiang.

All suffered from the unmitigated disaster, which affected hundreds of millions of people, collapsed nearly 5 million houses, flooded more than 20 million hectares of land, and caused economic losses of more than 160 billion yuan.

Historical records of mega-flood years are: 1153, 1227, 1520, 1560, 1788, 1860, 1870, 1896, 1905, 1917, 1921, 1931, 1945, 1954, 1998. Among them, 1870 was a mega-flood, with the highest water level and the largest flow, which was described as a once-in-10,000-year event.