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Yarkon River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Yarkon River, also Yarqon River or Jarkon River (Nahal HaYarkon, Nahr al-Auja), is a river in central Israel. The source of the Yarkon ("Greenish" in Hebrew) is at Tel Afek (Antipatris), north of Petah Tikva. It flows west through Gush Dan and Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park into the Mediterranean Sea. Its Arabic name, al-Auja, means "the meandering". The Yarkon is the largest coastal river in Israel, at 27.5 km in length.

Flows through: Israel.

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

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