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Tara

The 356th longest river in the world

806 km

The Tara is a river in the Novosibirsk and the Omsk Oblasts in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Irtysh in the Ob's basin. The length of the river is 806 kilometres (501 miles). The area of its basin is 18,300 square kilometres (7, 100 square miles). The Tara freezes up in late October or November and is frozen until late April or early May.

Flows through: Russia.

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

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