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Aksu River (Xinjiang)

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Aksu River (Uyghur, Aqsu deryasi, simplified, traditional, pinyin: Ākèsū Hé, means "white/clear water" in Uyghur and Kyrgyz languages) is a transboundary river in the Xinjiang province in China and Ak-Suu District of Issyk-Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan. Its upper section in Kyrgyzstan is known as the Saryjaz River or Sarydzhaz River (Kyrgyz). The middle section, between the Kyrgyz-Chinese border and the confluence with the Toshkan, is called Kumarik River (Kyrgyz). The total length of the river is 282 kilometres (175 mi), of which 197 kilometres (122 mi) are in Kyrgyzstan. It has a drainage basin of 12,900 square kilometres (5, 000 sq mi) in Kyrgyzstan. The Aksu is the only one of the Tarim's source rivers to run throughout the year.

Flows through: Kyrgyzstan.

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

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