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May 28, 2024 · The Amu Darya River and Syr Darya River are two prominent river systems within the Aral Sea basin, situated in central Eurasia with a total size of approximately 1.7 × 10 6 square...
- Jing He
Jun 2, 2024 · An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the Aral Sea while in orbit over Kazakhstan. This “sea” is actually an endorheic lake, located along the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan border and fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers.
May 24, 2024 · Bactria, ancient country lying between the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) in what is now part of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 10, 2024 · Turkmenistan’s largest natural inland lake is Lake Sarygamysh with high levels of salinity. Whereas its longest and most important river is the Amu Darya with a total length of 2,540 kilometers (1,580 mi).
4 days ago · It lies mainly between two major rivers, the Syr Darya (ancient Jaxartes River) to the northeast and the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River) to the southwest, though they only partly form its boundaries. Uzbekistan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east and southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and ...
3 days ago · A second affluent, the Ural River, flows in from the north, and the Kura River from the west. In the past, the Amu Darya (Oxus) of Central Asia in the east often changed course to empty into the Caspian through a now-desiccated riverbed called the Uzboy River, as did the Syr Darya farther north.
Jun 11, 2024 · There is an Indus site on the Amu Darya at Shortughai in northern Afghanistan, and the Indus site Alamgirpur at the Hindon River is located only 28 km (17 mi) from Delhi. As of now, over 1,052 cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Ghaggar-Hakra River and its tributaries.
