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The Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula (Russian: полуостров Муравьёва-Амурского) is a peninsula in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok , the administrative center of the krai , is located on the southern tip of the peninsula.
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The Peter the Great Gulf: Amur Bay (west), Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula and Ussuri Bay (east).. Amur Bay (Russian: Амурский Залив, Amurskiy Zaliv), a major bay within Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan, has an approximate length of 65 kilometres (40 miles), a width of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) to 20 kilometres (12 miles), and a depth of 20 metres (66 feet). [1]
The Amur proper is 2,824 km (1,755 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 1,855,000 km 2 (716,000 sq mi). [1] [9] If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is 4,444 km (2,761 mi) long, [9] [2] making it the world's tenth longest river. The Amur is an important river for the aquatic fauna of Northeast Asia.
[12]: 338–339 In 1856, Russian military entered the area north of the Amur on pretext of defending the area from France and the UK, [12]: 341 Russian settlers founded new towns and cut down forests in the region, [12]: 341 and the Russian government created a new maritime province, Primorskaya Oblast, including Sakhalin, the mouth of the Amur ...
The drainage basin of the Amur River, also showing the island of Sakhalin in the east, apart to the west towards Mongolia, roughly corresponds to the geographical area of the historic land of the Manchu people. Manchuria is now most often associated with the three Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning.
The term Asia Pacific generally refers to a combination of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and islands in the Pacific Ocean – and most are also considered part of Australasia or Oceania. Asia contains the Indian subcontinent , Iranian Plateau , Arabian Peninsula , as well as a piece of the North American plate in Siberia.
Amur Oblast (/ ə ˈ m ʊər ˈ ɒ b l æ s t /) [a] is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south.