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Saline River

The 580th longest river in the world

639 km

The Saline River is a 397-mile-long (639 km) tributary of the Smoky Hill River in the central Great Plains of North America. The entire length of the river lies in the U.S. state of Kansas in the northwest part of the state. Its name comes from the French translation of its Native name Ne Miskua, referring to its salty content.

Flows through: United States.

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

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