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Bira (river)

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Bira is a river in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. The name derives from the Jurchen and Manchu word bira meaning "river". It is 261 kilometres (162 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 9,580 square kilometres (3, 700 sq mi). It is one of the largest, left tributaries of the Amur. Some of the cities that lie along the river are Birakan, Teploozyorsk, Londoko, Bira, Birobidzhan and Nadezhdinskoye.

Flows through: Russia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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