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Arga-Yuryakh

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Arga-Yuryakh (Yakut, Arğaa Ürex) is a river in Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is one of the major tributaries of the Omoloy. The river has a length of 214 kilometres (133 mi) and a drainage basin area of 5,530 square kilometres (2, 140 mi2). The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, across desolate tundra territories of the East Siberian Lowland. Its basin falls within Ust-Yansky and Bulunsky districts. The name of the river comes from the Yakut "Arğaa-ürex", meaning "western river".

Flows through: Russia.

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

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