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The Amu Darya (/ ˌ ɑː m uː ˈ d ɑːr j ə / AH-moo DAR-yə), [a] (Persian: آمو دریا) also shortened to Amu and historically known as the Oxus (/ ˈ ɒ k s ə s / OK-səss), [2] [b] is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.
Astronaut photograph of the Syr Darya River floodplain. The Syr Darya / ˌ s ɪər ˈ d ɑːr j ə / SEER-DAR-yə, [a] [b] historically known as the Jaxartes (/ dʒ æ k ˈ s ɑːr t iː z / jak-SAR-teez, Ancient Greek: Ἰαξάρτης), is a river in Central Asia. The name, which is Persian, literally means Syr Sea or Syr River.
The North Aral Sea (Kazakh: Soltüstık Aral teñızı) is the portion of the former Aral Sea that is fed by the Syr Darya River. It split from the South Aral Sea in 1987–1988 [2] as water levels dropped due to river diversion for agriculture.
The river contributes about 25% of the total flow of the Amu Darya, its parent river. Its average discharge is 538 m 3 /s, with an annual discharge of 20.0 km 3. However, since the Vakhsh is fed mostly by melting snow and glaciers, these flow rates have great seasonal variability between winter and summer.
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Located in an arid region, the Fergana valley owes its fertility to two rivers, the Naryn and the Kara Darya, which run from the east, joining near Namangan, forming the Syr Darya river. The valley's history stretches back over 2,300 years, when Alexander the Great founded Alexandria Eschate at its southwestern end.
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