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Nizhnyaya Tunguska

The 22nd longest river in the world

2,989 km

The Nizhnyaya Tunguska (́ ́, [ˈnʲiʐnʲɪjə tʊnˈɡuskə], meaning "Lower Tunguska") is a river in Siberia, Russia, that flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The river is a right tributary of the Yenisey joining it at Turukhansk (see Siberian River Routes). The ice-free period on the Nizhnyaya Tunguska starts in mid-June and ends in the first half of October. The river forms the western limit of the Lena Plateau.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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