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Aksu (Lake Balkhash)

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Aksu (Kazakh, Aqsu) is a river of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin, Kazakhstan. It originates in the Dzungarian Alatau Mountains near the border with China and flows into Lake Balkhash. In Turkic languages, the name 'ak+su' literally means "clean/white water". The Aksu is one of the main rivers of the historic region of Zhetysu. It is 316 kilometres (196 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 5,040 square kilometres (1, 950 sq mi).

Flows through: Kazakhstan.

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

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