Amur River
The Amur or Heilong Jiang (Even: Тамур (Tamur), Manchu: 
, Sahaliyan Ula; Cheenese: 黑龙江; pinyin: Hēilóng Jiāng; Roushie: ре́ка Аму́р, IPA: [ɐˈmur]) is the warld's tent langest river, formin the border atween the Roushie Far East an Northeastren Cheenae (Inner Manchurie). The lairgest fish species in the Amur is the kaluga, attainin a length as great as 5.6 metres.[2]
| Amur (Sahaliyan river )
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| Heilong Jiang (黑龙江) река Аму́р | |
| River | |
 Amur near Verkhnaya Ekon, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
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| Name oreegin: Mongolian: amur, "rest") | |
| Kintras | Roushie, Cheenae |
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| Pairt o | Strait o Tartary |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Shilka, Zeya, Bureya, Amgun |
| - right | Ergune, Huma, Songhua, Ussuri |
| Ceeties | Blagoveschensk, Heihe, Tongjiang, Khabarovsk, Amursk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur |
| Primar soorce | Onon River-Shilka River |
| - location | Khan Khentii Strictly Protectit Aurie, Khentti Province, Mongolie |
| - elevation | 2,045 m (6,709 ft) |
| - coordinates | 48°48′59″N 108°46′13″E / 48.81639°N 108.77028°E |
| Seicontar soorce | Kherlen River-Ergune River |
| - location | aboot 195 kilometre (121 mi) frae Ulaanbaatar, Khentii Province, Mongolie |
| - elevation | 1,961 m (6,434 ft) |
| - coordinates | 48°47′54″N 109°11′54″E / 48.79833°N 109.19833°E |
| Soorce confluence | |
| - location | Near Pokrovka, Roushie & Cheenae |
| - elevation | 303 m (994 ft) |
| - coordinates | 53°19′58″N 121°28′37″E / 53.33278°N 121.47694°E |
| Mooth | Strait of Tartary |
| - location | Near Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Roushie |
| - elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| - coordinates | 52°56′50″N 141°05′02″E / 52.94722°N 141.08389°ECoordinates: 52°56′50″N 141°05′02″E / 52.94722°N 141.08389°E |
| Lenth | 2,824 km (1,755 mi) [1] |
| Basin | 1,855,000 km2 (716,220 sq mi) [1] |
| Discharge | for mooth |
| - average | 11,400 m3/s (402,587 cu ft/s) |
| - max | 30,700 m3/s (1,084,160 cu ft/s) |
| - min | 514 m3/s (18,152 cu ft/s) |
 Map o the Amur River wattershed
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References
eedit- ↑ a b "Amur River". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Universitat de Valencia. 1995. Archived frae the original on 13 Apryle 2011. Retrieved 19 Mairch 2010.
- ↑ C.Michael Hogan. 2012. Amur River. Encyclopedia of Earth. Topic ed. Peter Saundry