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Tone River

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Tone River (Tone-gawa, Japanese pronunciation: [to.ne.ɡa.wa, ŋa.wa], locally [to.ne.ɡa.wa, ŋa.wa]) is a Class A river in the Kantō region of Japan. It is 322 kilometers (200 mi) in length (the second longest in Japan after the Shinano River) and has a drainage area of 16,840 square kilometers (6, 500 sq mi) (the largest in Japan). It is nicknamed Bandō Tarō; Bandō is an obsolete alias of the Kantō Region, and Tarō is a popular given name for an oldest son. It is regarded as one of the "Three Greatest Rivers" of Japan, the others being the Shinano River in northeastern Honshu and the Ishikari River in Hokkaido.

Flows through: Japan.

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

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