Amur

The Amur (Russian: ????; Simplified Chinese: ???, Traditional Chinese: ???, H?il?ng Ji?ng, or "Black Dragon River"; Mongolian: ????-?????, Khara-Muren or "Black River"; Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning "Black River") is one of the world?s ten longest rivers, located between the Russian Far East and Manchuria of China. (In many historical references these were also known respectively as Inner Manchuria and Outer Manchuria, a.k.a. Russian Manchuria.)

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Flowing across northeast Asia for over 4400 km (2,700 mi), from the mountains of northeastern China to the Sea of Okhotsk (near Nikolayevsk-na-Amure), it drains a remarkable watershed that includes diverse landscapes of desert, steppe, tundra, and taiga in northeast Asia.

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The Amur proper is the 2,874 km after the junction of two rivers:

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• North: the Shilka, originating from the eastern slope of Kente Mountain in Mongolia.
• South: the Argun, originating on the western slope of the Great Khingan Range (????) in northeastern China.

The two sources join in Moguhe Village (????), western Mohe County (???), Heilongjiang Province, China, and become the Amur proper.

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Major tributaries are:

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• the Zeya,
• the Ussuri,
• the Bureya,
• the Songhua, and
• the Amgun

The Amur is bordered by Heilongjiang Province and Khabarovsk Krai, and passes through the following cities:

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• South bank (China)
• Heihe
• Tongjiang
• Huma
• Jiayin
• North bank (Russia)
• Khabarovsk
• Komsomolsk-na-Amure
• Nikolayevsk-na-Amure
• Blagoveshchensk
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