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Kyū-Yodo River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Kyū-Yodo River (Kyū-Yodo-gawa) was the main stream of the Yodo River before 1907, when the current (new) Yodo River was constructed by a normalisation project. Now called the Kyū-Yodo River, it is a major waterway in central Osaka and the main drainage of Neyagawa river. The name Kyū-Yodo river means former Yodo river in Japanese.

Flows through: Japan.

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

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