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This is a List of rivers of Asia. It includes major, notable rivers in Asia. Alphabetical order. Amu Darya - Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan - Aral Sea;
The Kara Darya (Kyrgyz: Кара-Дарыя; Uzbek: Qoradaryo; lit. ' Black River ') is a major river in southern Kyrgyzstan and eastern Uzbekistan.It is one of the two source rivers of the Syr Darya (the second largest river of Central Asia), the other source being the Naryn.
According to an estimate by Human Development in South Asia, on average there are 16 cases of bride burnings a month. [22] Women's eNews reported 4000 women attacked in this manner in Islamabad 's surroundings over an eight-year period and that the average age range of victims is between 18 and 35 with an estimated 30 percent being pregnant at ...
This is a list of longest rivers of Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. River
Sengge Zangbo, [1] [2] Sengge Khabab [3] (Tibetan: སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ།, Wylie: seng ge kha 'bab) or Shiquan He (Chinese: 獅泉河; pinyin: Shīquán Hé) is a river in the Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China that is the source stream of the Indus River, one of the major trans-Himalayan rivers of Central and South Asia.
The Mekong is a major waterway of Southeast Asia. It originates in China, where it is called the Lancang River, and flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where it empties into the South China Sea. It is a major trading route between China's southwestern Yunnan Province and the countries of Southeast Asia. [7]
The river drains 557,180 km 2 (215,130 sq mi) of land, and has an annual discharge of 76.2 km 3 /a (2,410 m 3 /s) to 81.77 km 3 /a (2,591 m 3 /s). [4] [1] [3] The extreme flatness of the Northeast China Plain has caused the river to meander over time, filling the wide plain with oxbow lakes, as remnants of the previous paths of the river.
The Indian Army uses this river for various expeditions and training. The Dhola–Sadiya Bridge, also referred to as the Bhupen Hazarika Setu, is a beam bridge and longest in India, connecting the northeast states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The bridge spans the Lohit River, from the village of Dhola in the south to Sadiya to the north.