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The 590th longest river in the world

630 km

The Ejin River is a major closed basin river system of northern China. It flows approximately 630 kilometres (390 mi) from its headwaters in the Qilian Mountains north-northeast into the Juyan Lake in the Badain Jaran Desert. The river forms one of the largest inland deltas and alluvial fans in the world. Its drainage basin covers about 78,600 square kilometres (30, 300 mi2) in parts of the Chinese subdivisions of Qinghai, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia. It is bounded by the Mazong Shan in the west, the Heli Shan and Longshou Shan in the south, the Helan Mountains and Lang Shan ranges in the east, and the Gobi Altay in the north.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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

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