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The Amu Darya · Geographic context

Natural feature · Central Asia

The Amu Darya

Also known as Oxus, Jayhun, Āmū Daryā

Central Asia's largest river by volume, historically the Oxus, and one of the two rivers diverted away from the Aral Sea.

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The Amu Darya is on the atlas, but nobody has written and sourced a full entry for it. Rather than generating one, we are leaving this blank until it can be researched properly. The coverage inventory in the repository tracks what is outstanding.

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