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Kotuy
Kotuy (Коту́й), also spelled Kotui, a 1,409 km river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, rising on the Putorana Plateau and forming, with the Kheta, the Khatanga River; basin 176,000 km², discharge 1,600 m³/s.
Krishna River (कृष्णा नदी)
Krishna River (कृष्णा नदी), third-longest river of India, rises in the Western Ghats near Mahabaleshwar and flows about 1,400 km to the Bay of Bengal; a 258,948 km² basin shared by Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh under tribunal awards.
Kura
Kura (Georgian Mtkvari, ancient Cyrus), largest river of the Transcaucasus, rises near Kars, Turkey, flows through Georgia and Azerbaijan to the Caspian; 1,515 km, Mingachevir dam, shared basin governance.
Lena (landform)
The Lena is a large river in eastern Siberia that flows north from near Lake Baikal to the Laptev Sea, delivering about 15 percent of the freshwater entering the Arctic Ocean.
Liao He
Liao He (辽河, Liao River), river and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 637 in Liaoning and Jilin, China; temperate floodplain system draining to Korea Bay and Bohai Sea, 3 endemic fishes, large delta wetlands, Ramsar site since 2004.
Lower Huang He
Lower Huang He (Lower Yellow River): the levee-confined lower reach of China's Yellow River from Taohuayu near Zhengzhou to the Bohai Sea; perched bed, 26 historical avulsions, water-sediment regulation since 2002.
Lower Lancang (Mekong)
Lower Lancang (Mekong), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 726, spans the Mekong from the Nam Kading upstream to Xishuangbanna across Burma, China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam; hill-stream endemic fish fauna, heavily dammed Lancang headwaters.
Lower Tigris & Euphrates
Lower Tigris & Euphrates is a freshwater ecoregion covering the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Mesopotamian floodplain of Iraq and adjacent Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Kuwait.
Lower Yangtze
Lower Yangtze: the easternmost reach of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) with Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai; temperate floodplain wetlands, polder agriculture, large lakes, and endemic fishes draining to the East China Sea.
Mae Khlong
Mae Khlong (แม่น้ำแม่กลอง), a ~140 km river in western Thailand formed by the Khwae Yai and Khwae Noi, flowing through Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, and Samut Songkhram to the Gulf of Thailand; dammed by Srinagarind, Vajiralongkorn, and Mae Klong dams.
Mahakam
Mahakam (Sungai Mahakam), major river of East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, roughly 920–980 km long, draining 77,095 km² into the Makassar Strait; known for its fan-shaped mixed tide–fluvial delta, middle lakes, and the freshwater Pesut Irrawaddy dolphin.
Mahanadi (ମହାନଦୀ)
Mahäna Nadï (Mahanadi, ମହାନଦୀ, महानदी), 'great river' in Sanskrit, is a major east-flowing peninsular Indian river, 851 km long, rising in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, flowing through Odisha, home of the Hirakud Dam, and draining to the Bay of Bengal.
Maquan
Maquan (Maquan Tsangpo, Maquan River, Tachog Khabab), the ~270 km Tibetan headwater branch of the Yarlung Tsangpo (upper Brahmaputra) in Burang and Saga counties, rising from Himalayan glaciers at over 5,200 m.
Markha
Markha (Марха) is a 1,181-km river in Yakutia, Russia, a left tributary of the Vilyuy in the Lena basin, rising on the Vilyuy Plateau. Its basin holds Yakutia's diamond fields and the Kraton-3 (1978) nuclear explosion site; not the Ladakh Markha River.
Maya (landform)
Maya (landform): chiefly the Maya River (Мая, маайа), a right tributary of the Aldan in Siberia, over 1,050 km long; also the Maya Mountains of Belize, Sudan's Mayas wetlands, and a Leyte stream.
Mekong (湄公河)
The Mekong (湄公河), called Lancang in China, is a roughly 4,900 km river flowing through six countries to the Mekong Delta, supporting the world's largest inland fishery and a basin reshaped by dams, sediment loss and mining pollution.
Middle Brahmaputra
The Middle Brahmaputra is a freshwater ecoregion covering the tropical and subtropical upland rivers of the middle Brahmaputra basin in India, Bhutan, and southeast Tibet.
Middle Yangtze
Middle Yangtze: FEOW freshwater ecoregion 765 in China, temperate upland rivers from the Sichuan basin through the Three Gorges to the Qing River confluence; Min, Tuo, Jialing, Wu, Qing tributaries.
Mun
Mun River (แม่น้ำมูล), largest Mekong tributary by area in northeast Thailand's Khorat Plateau; home of the controversial 136 MW Pak Mun Dam (1994) and moated Iron Age archaeological sites.
Narmada River (नर्मदा नदी)
Narmada River (नर्मदा नदी), also Narbada, India's longest west-flowing river, 1,312 km from Amarkantak to the Gulf of Khambhat; site of the Sardar Sarovar Dam, its irrigation network, and the Narmada Bachao Andolan displacement controversy.
Naryn
Naryn (Нарын), river in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, major tributary of the Syr Darya; about 600 km long, meltwater-fed, and the site of the 2870 MW Naryn hydropower cascade including Toktogul.
Nen
Nen (Nenjiang, 嫩江) is the largest tributary of the Songhua River in Northeast China, 1,370 km long, draining about 297,000 km2 across Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Jilin; noted for wetlands, the Nierji Dam, and Angangxi prehistoric culture.
Ob
Ob (Обь): west Siberian river and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 602 (Polar freshwaters) in Kazakhstan and Russia; Ob-Irtysh basin 2,975,000 km2, 417 km3/year discharge, ~15% of Arctic Ocean river input.
Ob (鄂畢河, rivers_lake_centerlines:24)
The Ob (Обь; 鄂畢河) is a major west Siberian river formed by the Biya and Katun near Biysk, flowing north to the Gulf of Ob; third largest Arctic river by discharge, chief tributary the Irtysh.
Okhotsk Coast
Okhotsk Coast (FEOW ecoregion 614): Russian Far East freshwater ecoregion of short coastal rivers draining the Sea of Okhotsk coast from Gizhiginskaya Guba Bay to the Kiran River, marked by charr diversity and absence of Coregonidae and Amur fauna.
Olenyok
Olenyok (Оленёк), a 2,270 km river in Yakutia and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, flowing from the Vilyuy Plateau to Olenyok Bay of the Laptev Sea; discharge 1,210 m³/s, basin 219,000 km², site of the 1633 Olenyok winter quarters.
Olyokma
Rising on the northern slope of the Yablonovy Range, the Olyokma (Олёкма, Olekma) is a right tributary of the Lena and flows through Amur Oblast and Yakutia.
Omolon
Omolon (Омолон), river in Magadan Oblast, Chukotka, and Yakutia, Russia; longest right tributary of the Kolyma, 1,114 km, basin ~113,000 km², navigable ~595 km, village of Omolon on its banks.
Onon
Onon (Онон гол, 鄂嫩河, historic 斡難河) is a 1,032 km river rising in Mongolia's Khentii mountains, joining the Ingoda to form the Shilka of the Amur basin; birthplace region of Genghis Khan.
Orkhon
Orkhon (Орхон) is Mongolia's longest river, 1,124 km, rising in the Khangai Mountains and joining the Selenga, which feeds Lake Baikal. Its valley holds Kharakhorum, Khar Balgas, and the UNESCO Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape.