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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.
Both are in the southern portion of Transoxiana (though still to the north of the Amu Darya itself, on the river Zarafshan) and Uzbekistan, and the majority of the region was dry but fertile plains. Both cities remained centres of Persian culture and civilisation after the Islamic conquest of Iran , and played a crucial role in the revival of ...
Amyderýa Nature Reserve (Turkmen: Amyderýa goraghanasy) is a nature reserve of north-eastern Turkmenistan.. Established in 1982 to protect part of the Amu Darya River, it is located in the north-east of Lebap Province and covers an area of 495 km 2.
Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Tajikistan located at the confluence of Vakhsh and Panj Rivers forming the Amu Darya River. It stretches over 40 km (25 mi) from the southwest to the northeast with an area of 460 km 2 (180 sq mi).
Aral-Paygambar (Uzbek: Payg'ambar Orol; Russian: Арал-Пайгамбар), which means the island of the prophet, is an island on the Amu Darya river which separates Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. The nature reserve was created in 1960 on the island of Aral-Paygambar on the Amu Darya river near Termez.
The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan ...
It is located in Central Asia, in the land between the confluent rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a region historically known as Transoxania. [1] Today it is divided among Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It covers about 298,000 km 2 (115,000 sq mi).
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.