Amu Darya
AMU DARYA
Afghan river.
The Amu Darya, also known in the past as the Oxus River, forms the principal boundary between Afghanistan and the Tajik and Uzbek republics, a distance of about 680 miles (1,094 km). The Amu Darya begins in the Pamir mountains, runs a total distance of about 1,500 miles (2,414 km), and eventually empties into the Aral Sea.
Bibliography
Dupree, Louis. Afghanistan. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Grant Farr
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