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Irgiz River

The 653rd longest river in the world

593 km

The Irgiz (Kazakh: Yrgyz) is a river in Aktobe and Kostanay regions of Kazakhstan, a right tributary of the Turgay. It is 593 kilometres (368 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 31,600 square kilometres (12, 200 sq mi). It was the site of the Irghiz River skirmish in the early 13th century.

Flows through: Kazakhstan.

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

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