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Kabul River

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Kabul River is a 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) river that emerges in the Sanglakh Range of the Hindu Kush mountains in the northeastern part of Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan. It is separated from the watershed of the Helmand River by the Unai Pass. The Kabul River empties into the Indus River near Attock, Pakistan. It is the major river in eastern Afghanistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Flows through: Pakistan.

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

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