Aksu (Lake Balkhash)
The 883rd longest river in the world
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.