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Birekte

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Birekte (Yakut, Bilekte) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Olenyok with a length of 315 kilometres (196 mi). Its drainage basin area is 8,600 square kilometres (3, 300 mi2). The river flows north of the Arctic Circle, across a lonely, desolate area devoid of settlements.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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