Marghab River
The 250th longest river in the world
The Marghab River (Dari/Pashto, Murghāb, Balochi), anciently the Margiana (Ancient, Margianḗ), is an 850-kilometre (530 mi) long river in Central Asia. It rises in the Paropamisus Mountains (Selseleh-ye Safīd Kūh) in Ghor Province, flows through the Marghab District in central Afghanistan, then runs northwest towards the Bala Murghab. Reaching the oasis of Mary in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan, the Marghab debouches into the Karakum Canal, a diversion of water from the Amu Darya. The catchment area of the Marghab is estimated at 46,880 square kilometres (18, 100 mi2).
Flows through: Afghanistan, Turkmenistan.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.