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Tarnak River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Tarnak River is located in Ghazni, Zabul, and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan. The city of Kandahar is located on a plain directly adjacent to the Tarnak. It rises in Afghanistan's highlands region of Hazarajat, near 33°7′N 67°56′E, south of the Lomar Pass. The Tarnak flows in a south-westerly direction for around 350 km before joining the Dori River some 30 km downstream of the Dori-Arghastan confluence, and some 30 km upstream of the Dori-Arghandab confluence, at 31°24′N 65°33′E. The combined waters of these rivers join the Helmand at 31°27′N 64°23′E, near Lashkargah.

Flows through: Afghanistan.

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

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