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The 881st longest river in the world

501 km

The Bur (Yakut, Buur) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is the second largest tributary of the Olenyok with a length of 501 kilometres (311 mi). Its drainage basin area is 13,900 square kilometres (5, 400 mi2). The river flows north of the Arctic Circle across a lonely, desolate area devoid of settlements. The river basin is mostly in Olenyoksky District, with the lower course section in Bulunsky District.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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