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Aka River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Aka River (Akagawa, lit. 'red river') is a Class A river in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It flows into the Sea of Japan.

There are football fields on Akagawa riverbed in Tsuruoka, and they were NEC Yamagata SC's practice grounds.

Flows through: Japan.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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