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Tashkurgan River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Tashkurgan River (pinyin Tǎshíkù'ěrgàn hé) is a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. The Tashkurgan River runs through Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County and is one of the tributaries of the Yarkand River in the Tarim Basin. The river is formed by the joining of several mountain streams originating in the Karakoram Range and northern Hindu Kush Mountains. It flows due north to Tashkurgan. Then, it turns right flowing through the mountains and joining the Yarkand River.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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

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