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(Encyclopedia) Bureya bo͝orāˈä [key], mountain range, Khabarovsk Territory, SE Russian Far East, extending into NE China as the Xiao Hinggan (Lesser Khingan) range. The site of the Bureya coal basin, it rises to...

(Encyclopedia) Missouri, river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. The l...

(Encyclopedia) Urals or Ural Mountains, E European Russia and NW Kazakhstan, forming, together with the Ural River, the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia and separating the Russian plain from the W Siberi...

(Encyclopedia) river, stream of water larger than a brook or creek. Land surfaces are never perfectly flat, and as a result the runoff after precipitation tends to flow downward by the shortest and steepest course i...

(Encyclopedia) Leninsk-Kuznetski lyĕˈnĭnsk-ko͞oznyĕtˈskē [key], city (1989 pop. 165,000), S central Siberian Russia, on the Inya River. It is a coal center in the Kuznetsk Basin. Founded in 1864 as a mining s...

(Encyclopedia) Manas mänäsˈ [key], town and oasis, central Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, on the Manas River, in the Dzungarian basin. It is the center of a large mechanized-farm area. Wheat, millet, su...

(Encyclopedia) Brooks Range, mountain chain, northernmost part of the Rocky Mts., extending about 600 mi (970 km) from east to west across N Alaska. Mt. Chamberlin, 9,020 ft (2,749 m) high, near the Canadian border,...

(Encyclopedia) Apure äpo͞oˈrā [key], river, c.500 mi (800 km) long, rising in the Andes, N Colombia, and flowing E across W central Venezuela to the Orinoco River. It drains much of the western portion of the Or...

(Encyclopedia) Zeya zāˈä, Rus. zyāˈə [key], river, c.800 mi (1,290 km) long, rising in the Stanovoy Range, Russian Far East, and flowing south to join the Amur River at Blagoveshchensk. It carries gold in its ...

(Encyclopedia) Savannah, river, 314 mi (505 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca rivers and flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean; with the Tugaloo it forms the entire S.C.–Ga. boundary. Savanna...