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Kushk River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Kushk (known in Turkmenistan as Guşgy) is a river which, for a portion of its course, forms the boundary between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, and used to form part of the southernmost border of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The Kushk is fed by the Aq Robat and Galleh Chagar rivers in north-western Afghanistan. After 150 km, it flows into the Murghab River.

Flows through: Afghanistan.

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

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