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The Irtysh / ɜːr ˈ t ɪ ʃ, ˈ ɪər t ɪ ʃ / [note 1] is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob and is also the longest tributary river in the world. The river's source lies in the Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern part of Xinjiang, China) close to the border with Mongolia.
The Ob-Irtysh river system is the world's seventh largest, after the Yellow River, the Yenisei, the Mississippi, the Yangtze, the Amazon and the Nile.
1.1 Ob. 1.1.1 Irtysh (Ertis) River. 2 Flowing into endorheic basins. Toggle Flowing into endorheic basins subsection. 2.1 Caspian Depression. 2.2 Aral Sea.
Toggle List of river systems longer than 1,000 km subsection. ... Continent color key Africa Asia Australia Europe ... Ob–Irtysh: 5,410 3,364 2,990,000 [21]
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Ishim in Astana. According to the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Astana was chosen as the capital in part due to the presence of the river. The city is also divided into two sections, the Right (northern) Bank of the Ishim or the old town, and the Left (southern) Bank, where the new government buildings such as the Ak Orda, the House of the Government, and the Supreme Court are ...
Ob Basin: Near Tobolsk was the capital of the Khanate of Sibir, which was conquered in 1582. North down the Irtysh to its juncture with the Ob River, then 750km up the Ob to Narym (1594), and up the Ket River (1602) about 300 km to its headwaters. Here a portage leads to the Yenisei River at Yeniseysk (1619). Yeniseysk is about 1400 km from ...
Gulf of Ob: Primary river [22] 23 South America: Tocantins: ... Tributary river [94] 107 Asia: Irtysh: 2,980 4,248 2,627 ... Continent River Station Average discharge ...