Amur River
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Summary
Amur River is a transboundary river[1]. It draws 7,815 Wikipedia views per month (transboundary river category, ranking #3 of 10).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Zabaykalsky Krai[3], Amur Oblast[4], Jewish Autonomous Oblast[5], Khabarovsk Krai[6], Heilongjiang[7]
- Country: Russia[8], People's Republic of China[9]
- Continent: Asia[10]
- Instance of: river[11]
- Basin country: Russia[12]
- Commons category: Amur River[13]
- Mouth of the watercourse: Sea of Okhotsk[14]
- Origin of the watercourse: Onon River[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Amur River[16]
- Tributary: Argun River[17], Shilka[18], Amazar[19], Oldoy[20], Zeya[21], Bureya[22], Bira[23], Tunguska[24], Gorin[25], Amgun River[26], Huma River[27], Songhua River[28], Ussuri[29], Anyuy River[30]
- Category for the water basin: Category:Amur basin[31]
- Described by source: Encyclopedic Lexicon[32], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[33], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[34], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[36], Geographical statistical dictionary of the Russian Empire[37], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[38], The New Student's Reference Work[39], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[40], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[41]
- Native label: 黑龙江[42], Амур[43], ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ[44]
- Different from: Heilongjiang[45]
- Length: 2824 km[46]
- Watershed area: 1,855,000 km²[47]
- Discharge: 12,800 cubic metre per second[48]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Amur River include Black Dragon Society[49], an uyoku dantai[50], in Empire of Japan[51], founded in 1901[52], headquartered in 西久保 (東京都港区)[53] and R297 Amur Federal Highway[54], a controlled-access highway[55], in Russia[56].
Why It Matters
Amur River has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[57] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[58]
Entities named for it include Black Dragon Society[49], an uyoku dantai[50], in Empire of Japan[51], founded in 1901[52], headquartered in 西久保 (東京都港区)[53] and R297 Amur Federal Highway[54], a controlled-access highway[55], in Russia[56].