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	Red River (Asia) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Red River (Asia), river in southeastern Asia, principal river of northern Vietnam.
		The river rises in the mountains of Yunnan Province in southern...
		Amu Darya, Amur, Angara, Aras, Brahmaputra, Chao Phraya, Euphrates, Ganges, Godāvari, Han Jiang, Huang He, Indus, Irrawaddy, Kolyma, Krishna...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Red_River_(Asia).html (101 words)

	Asia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Asia’s border with Europe—which, geographically, may be regarded as a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass—lies approximately along the Urals, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, the Black Sea, the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, and the Aegean Sea.
		The continent of Asia is washed on the S by the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal; on the E by the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Bering Sea; and on the N by the Arctic Ocean.
		Southwest Asia (Iran; Turkey, in Asia Minor; and the nations of the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian peninsula or Arabia), long a strategic crossroad, is characterized by an arid climate and irrigated agriculture, great petroleum reserves, and the predominance of Islam.
	www.bartleby.com /65/as/Asia.html (1640 words)

	紧急呼吁关注，又一片湿地面临绝境 - 绿网 Green-Web.org
		The Eerguna (Argun) River is a relatively fragile branch of the Amur-Heilong River catchment with a total annual flow of between 1.5 cubic km in low rainfall years and 6 cubic km in high rainfall
		The river does not have any significant tributaries for at least 300 kilometers from the point it comes to the border to the mouth of Gen River at Heishantou-Priargunsk border crossing.
		Eerguna River is the only sizable source of water all the way to the Gen River mouth, and presently without any project there are already issues of water resources deterioration affecting local people.
	www.green-web.org /infocenter/show.php?id=19072 (2413 words)

	Asia Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		SW Asia (Iran, Turkey, in Asia Minor, and the nations of the Fertile Crescent, and the Arabian Peninsula), long a strategic crossroad, is characterized by an arid climate and irrigated agriculture, great petroleum reserves, and the predominance of Islam.
		SE Asia (the nations of the SE peninsula, the East Indies, and the Philippines) is characterized by monsoon climate, maritime orientation, the fusion of Indian and Chinese cultures, and a great diversity of ethnic groups, languages, religions, and politics.
		East Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea, and the islands of Taiwan and Japan) is located in the mid-latitudes on the Pacific Ocean, and is characterized by cultures strongly influenced by civilizations of the Huang He and Chang Jiang river systems.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Asia.html (1580 words)

	Travel East Russia - Changing Faces of the Amur River
		The river is also a place where millions of years ago, a current of molten lava flowed out of the depths of the earth from the crater of a now non-existent volcano.
		To the north the Amur's principal tributaries are the Zoya, the Bureya, and the Amgun rivers, to the south its main tributaries are the Sungari and the Ussuri, which constitutes another portion of the border between Russia and China.
		For years the Amur River was the main route of communications connecting the forest of the Siberian interior, the Pacific coastland and even the remote shores of the Arctic Ocean.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /amurriver.html (923 words)

	List of rivers of Russia - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dniepr and the Western Dvina.
		In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei, Angara, Lena, Amur, Yana, Indigirka and Kolyma.
		Rivers that flow into other rivers are ordered by the proximity of their point of confluence to the mouth of the main river, i.e.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Rivers_of_Russia (350 words)

	Amur River - LoveToKnow 1911
		AMUR (known also as the Sakhalin-ula), a river of eastern Asia, formed by the confluence of the Argun and the Shilka, at Ust-Stryelka, in 53° 19' N. lat.
		Both these rivers come from the south-west: the Argun, or Kerulen as it is called above Lake Kulun (Dalai-nor), through which it flows about half way between its source and Ust-Stryelka, rises in 49° N. lat.
		As the mouth is choked with sandbanks, goods are disembarked at Mariinsk and carried by train (9 m.) to Alexandrovsk at the head of the Gulf of Tartary.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Amur_River (299 words)

	Kayaking River Russian
		Ussuri River - The Ussuri River (; Russian: ÑÐµÐºÐ° Ð£ÑÑÑÑÐ¸) is a river in the south of the Russian Far East.
		Argun River, Asia - Argun (Russian: ÐÑÐ³ÑÌÐ½Ñ) is the Russian name of a river which is a part of the Russia-China border.
		The length of the Ket River is 1621 km.
	www.wcmvalladolid2003.com /kayakingriverrussian.html (954 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Argun River (Asia)
		Argun (Аргу́нь; ; Manchu: Ergune bira) is the Russian name of the river which is a part of the Russia–China border.
		The river flows from the Western slope of the Greater Khingan Range in Inner Mongolia.
		Its confluence with Shilka River forms the Amur River.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Argun_River,_Asia (111 words)

	Sokol Tours: Destinations: Waterways: Amur River (Mongolia-Russia-China)
		Here the River matures to a large size and flows east for 4,400km (2,750mi) all the way to the Pacific ocean forming much of the border between eastern regions of Russia and China.
		The Native people who inhabited river's lower valley were a mixture of various of Tungus and Manchu tribes from the interior, Nivkh, and probably Ainu migrants from Sakhalin Island and the Amur estuary.
		The river's valley and its flood lands are the nesting area for 95% of the world population of Oriental White stork, 65% of red-crowned cranes and 50% of White-naped Cranes.
	www.sokoltours.com /destination.phtml?m=538 (533 words)

	CEO - Caucasian Environmental Outlook
		Thus, the Colchian lowland (which is crossed by the river Rioni), Shida (Inner) Kartli plain and the Kura-Araks lowland (crossed by the river Kura) are a single entity from the geographical viewpoint.
		In this case, it is connected with the landscapes typical to Europe and Asia and passes along the Javakheti-Armenian highlands with landscapes typical to Asia.
		In this respect, part of the Russian Federation (the Black Sea coastline) is in the Trans-Caucasus and the regions of North Georgia (upstream of the rivers Terek, Assa, Argun and Andian Koisy) and northeast Azerbaijan (the city of Kuba and adjacent to it Mukhtadir, Divichi, Siazan and Kusary regions) belong to the North Caucasus.
	www.grid.unep.ch /product/publication/CEO-for-Internet/CEO/intro.htm (3119 words)

	Amur Case
		River perch was first introduced as 160, 000 individuals into the Upper Amur basin from the Vitim basin in 1919.
		The main fishing grounds are the Amur river, coastal waters of the Tatarsky Gulf and the Okhotskoe Sea.
		It is formed as a result of Shilka and Argun rivers junction on the territory of Chitinskaya oblast.
	www.american.edu /ted/amur.htm (4383 words)

	amur
		One of the largest rivers in the world formed by the merge of the Shilka and Argun rivers.
		The Amur river flows across 6 regions of the Khabarovsk Territory: Khabarovsky, Nanaisky, Amursky, Komsomolsky, Ulchsky and Nikolaevsky.
		The valley of the Amur river in Khabarovsk Territory is characterized by a large variety of nature, presence of archeological and historical objects.
	www.villagegreendenison.com /amur.htm (332 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Top Ten Rivers of the World- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It has three major rivers contributing to it, the Blue Nile with its source in Ethiopia near Lake Tana, north of Khartoum, the White Nile and Blue Nile are joined by the Atbara, which also was born in the highlands of Ethiopia.
		The river drops a 170 million cubic meters of silt annually that assists a large plain in Jiangsu Province, where the major crop Rice, is the staple food of the Chinese.
		The Lena River is born in the mountains west of Lake Baikal, in south eastern Siberia, and to its mouth on the Laptev Sea in the Arctic it drains some 961,000 square miles.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheTopTenRiversoftheWorld.html (2060 words)

	A Bear in the Woods
		Vasily Poyarkov provided a first-hand report about the Amur River and its resources and demonstrated that the Aldan-Zeya river route was unsuited to mass Russian immigration to the Amur region, or for transporting grain from the region.
		The Amur River valley presented a far more complex situation however, since south of the river the great Qing Empire was reaching the height of its power and its many domains included, even if only marginally, the lands occupied by natives of the Amur River basin.
		The Russian statesman and diplomat Fyodor Alekseyevich Golovin was sent from Moscow on a diplomatic mission to the Amur River region to negotiate the frontiers between Russia and China.
	koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C16/E1603.htm (3795 words)

	Central Asia - South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The highlands west and northwest of the Indus River.
		It was one of the tribal entities in the northern highlands of Pakistan which have been more-or-less autonomous for ages, due to inaccessibility and the intransigence of the indigenes.
		A wealthy city and fertile region in northwestern Afghanistan, comprising the plains on the watershed of the Harirud River, with the edge of the Hindu Kush Mountains bordering on the east.
	www.hostkingdom.net /Centasia3.html (1776 words)

	River Russian
		Anyuy River (Khabarovsk Krai) - Anyuy River, also Onyuy River and Dondon River (ÐÐ½ÑÐ¹, ÐÐ½ÑÐ¹, Ð”Ð¾Ð½Ð´Ð¾Ð½ in Russian) is a river in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia.
		In this travelogue of the Russian River area's geology river russian and history as it pertains to winemaking in several Sonoma County appellations, Heimoff profiles the key players river russian and winemakers who have established the region's reputation for excellent wine.
		Russian River Wineries History of California governor for Rock and His would-be bride entered through the English: the North America is released Arrival - Fleetwood Mac "Let Your Booty" - Wild Tchoupitoulas - Waylon Jennings and Christine Authors "Don't It is in 2001, jobs evaporated overnight...
	www.wcmvalladolid2003.com /riverrussian.html (761 words)

	Rattans and Rheophytes-Palms of the Mubi River
		Having ferried our gear across the rather unappealing, tepid water, we were met by Pamero, a wizened old man with dreadlocks and a serious lust for life, who drove like a lunatic, although he could only just reach the steering wheel, along the limestone road to a point where a path led into the forest.
		Either side of the broad river, whose turbid waters flowed calmly, but swiftly, magnificent forest rose from the alluvial flats along the banks clothing the limestone hills behind.
		Disembarking at a bend in the river, we were led along a board walk through the bush to the lodge.
	www.palms.org /principes/1997/rattan.htm (1487 words)

	Amur
		The Amur (Chinese: Heilong Jiang 黑龙江 or 黑龍江, literal meaning: "Black Dragon River") is one of the ten world's great rivers.
		Flowing in northeast Asia over 4400 km (2,700 mi) from the mountains of northeastern China, to the Sea of Okhotsk, it drains a remarkable watershed that includes diverse landscapes of desert, steppe, tundra, and taiga from East-North Asia.
		South: the Argun (Erguna 額爾古納河), originated on the western slope of the Daxing'an Range (大興安嶺) in northeastern China.
	www.wordlookup.net /am/amur.html (388 words)

	Asia Times: Logging on
		According to the regional Forest Service office here in Chita, an area of 490,000 hectares along the Argun river bordering China is being rented to several Russian logging companies which will then allow Chinese companies to manage the logging operations.
		Most of the logging and hauling is done in winter when the river is frozen over since there are no bridges over the Argun in the area.
		Atamankin says Russian companies are currently preparing a business plan for the creation of a river barge operation to haul the wood across the river, a proposal that has stunned and outraged local environmental groups.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/BG29Ag02.html (887 words)

	Maps of Asia, including Siberia
		The Lake Baikal region was a center of early human cultures, for example, while major rivers such as the Amur and Lena were influential ancient travel corridors.
		Map of East Asia with China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, the Russian Far East, Sakhalin Island and southern Siberia, and key bodies of water, the Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and
		Map of Central Asia with China to the east, and Maps of Central Asia with cities, and
	www.workingdogweb.com /Maps-of-Asia.htm (1436 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Certain islands in Yalu and Tumen rivers are in an uncontested dispute with North Korea and a section of boundary around Mount Paektu is indefinite - China has been attempting to manage illegal migration of North Koreans into northern China;
		Agreements with Vietnam demarcating maritime boundaries and fisheries cooperation in the Gulf of Tonkin were ratified in June, and demarcation of the land boundary continues;
		Environmentalists in Burma and Thailand remain concerned about China's construction of hydroelectric dams upstream on the Nujiang/Salween River in Yunnan Province.
	www.specencyclopaedia.com /web/continents/Asia/China/china.shtml (511 words)

	Dispatches from Chechnya
		GROZNY, May 25, 2001 — The Argun Preserve was established in 1988 around the headwaters of the Chanti-Argun and Sharo-Argun rivers.
		An especially large number of towers were destroyed in the building of the Russian forts at Shatoevsky, Yevdokimovsky and Vozdvizhensky (at the entrance to the Argun Gorge), when the stones from the towers were used as building material for the new forts.
		Because of this the Argun Preserve is searching for funding from various foundations which finance cultural projects in Eastern Europe.
	www.idee.org /lreport12.html (1385 words)

	AllRefer.com - Asia : Geology and Geography (Oceans And Continents) - Encyclopedia
		Geologically, Asia consists of ancient Precambrian landmasses : the Arabian and Indian peninsulas in the south and the central Siberian plateau in the north : enclosing a central zone of folded ridges.
		Great peninsulas extend out from the mainland, dividing the oceans into seas and bays, many of them protected by Asia's numerous offshore islands.
		Climatically, the continent ranges through all extremes, from torrid heat to arctic cold and from torrential rains (the product of monsoons) to extreme aridity (as in the Tarim Basin).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Asia-geology-and-geography.html (546 words)

	ARGUN :: AudioEnglish.net dictionary
		A river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River
		river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
		Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
	www.audioenglish.net /dictionary/argun.htm (190 words)

	Association for Asia Research- Energy concerns and China's unresolved territorial disputes
		While much of the world is fixated on China's booming economic growth and its ravenous appetite for energy, untidy diplomatic loose ends in the form of territorial disputes with neighbors have many of the countries bordering the Asian giant nervous.
		China continues to press for an agreement on disputed islands in the Amur and Ussuri rivers and a small island in the Argun River, and progress has been made.
		Besides oil, the most important agreement delineated a section of the Russian-Chinese border along the Amur River, while China gave up its claims to exclusive ownership of the islands outside Khabarovsk, leaving the details to be hammered out in the future.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/2437.html (1382 words)

	About China - Geography
		Eastward from Bhutan and north of the Brahmaputra River (Yarlung Zangbo Jiang) lies a large area controlled and administered by India but claimed by the Chinese in the aftermath of the 1959 Tibetan revolt.
		Because the river level drops precipitously toward the North China Plain, where it continues a sluggish course across the delta, it transports a heavy load of sand and mud from the upper reaches, much of which is deposited on the flat plain.
		Southeast of the mountains lies a coastal, hilly region of small deltas and narrow valley plains; the drainage area of the Zhu Jiang (Pearl River) and its associated network of rivers occupies much of the region to the south.
	www.emma-xd.com /lightofchina/china_facts/china_fact_geography.htm (1916 words)

	A Historical View of the Russian Far East
		Infrastructure in all areas is limited due to climate (permafrost and frozen rivers make transportation of export and import goods difficult).
		Some of the rivers, such as the Amur and Lena, are more than 4,000 km long.
		In 1648 Semyon Dezhnev rounded Chukotka to prove that there was a strait between the continents of Asia and America and reached the north of the Anadyr river.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /history.html (1135 words)

	Argun — Infoplease.com
		river, 950 mi (1,529 km) long, rising in the Da Hinggan Mts., Heilongjiang prov., NE China, as the Hailar River and flowing W to the Russian border, then NE along the Russian-China frontier, where it joins the Shilka River to form the Amur.
		Shilka - Shilka, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, formed E of Chita, Chita oblast, SE Siberian Russia, by the...
		Heilongjiang, river, c.1,800 mi (2,900 km) long, formed by the confluence of the...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0804657.html (196 words)

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