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Barka River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Barka River (nahr Baraka, fiume Barca) is a tributary river that flows from the Eritrean Highlands to the plains of Sudan. With a length of over 640 kilometres or 400 miles, it rises just outside Asmara and flows in a northwestern direction through Agordat. The river merges with the Anseba River near the border with Sudan. In Sudan, the Barka flows seasonally to a delta on the Red Sea, near the town of Tokar.

Flows through: Sudan.

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

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