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The Amur River marks most of the Russia-China frontier
The river runs roughly 2,800 kilometres to the sea and forms the border for much of its course The Amur drains a basin larger than a million square kilometres and empties into the sea opposite Sakhalin. Its Chinese name means Black Dragon River, which gives the province of Heilongjiang its name. Border treaties in 2004 and 2008 settled the division of several river islands. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The Amur River marks most of the Russia-China frontier: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The river runs roughly 2,800 kilometres to the sea and forms the border for much of its course. The figure is taken from National Geographic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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