Amu Darya

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river transboundary river

The Amu Darya is one of Central Asia’s largest and most historically significant rivers, flowing from the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains toward the Aral Sea.

Aliases (3)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	river → transboundary river →
basinArea_km2	approximately 534000 →
borderFunction	formsPartOfBorderBetweenAfghanistanAndTajikistan → formsPartOfBorderBetweenAfghanistanAndTurkmenistan → formsPartOfBorderBetweenAfghanistanAndUzbekistan →
continent	Asia →
country	Afghanistan → Tajikistan → Turkmenistan → Uzbekistan →
deltaRegion	Karakalpakstan →
discharge_m3_per_s	approximately 2000 →
drainageBasin	Endorheic basin →
environmentalIssue	reducedFlowToAralSea → salinizationInDeltaRegion → waterDiversionForIrrigation →
flowsAlongBorderOf	Afghanistan → Turkmenistan → Uzbekistan →
flowsInto	Aral Sea →
flowsThrough	Tajikistan →
hasDelta	Amu Darya Delta →
historicalName	Jayhun → Oxus River →
historicalRegion	Khwarezm → Transoxiana →
length_km	approximately 2400 →
locatedIn	Central Asia →
majorCityOnRiver	Nukus → Termez → Turkmenabat →
mouth	Aral Sea →
partOf	Aral Sea Basin →
primaryWaterSource	glacial meltwater → snowmelt →
region	Hindu Kush → Pamir Mountains → surface form: "Pamir"
significance	historicallyImportantTradeAndCulturalCorridor → oneOfLargestRiversInCentralAsia →
sourceRegion	Hindu Kush → Pamir Mountains →
tributary	Kunduz River → Panj River → Surkhandarya River → Vakhsh River → Zeravshan River →
usedFor	agriculture → hydropower → irrigation →

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

South-Central Asia → borderFeature → Amu Darya →

this entity surface form: "Amu Darya basin"

Turkmenabat → borderRiver → Amu Darya →

Karakum Desert → borders → Amu Darya →

this entity surface form: "Amu Darya valley"

Pamir–Tien Shan mountain system → drainageBasin → Amu Darya →