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Definition: Kan River

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang.[Wordnet].

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Extended Definition: Kan River


Kan River

For the similarly pronounced river in China see Gan River

The Kan (Russian Кан) river is a 629 km long tributary to the Yenisei River in Siberia, Russia. It drains a basin of 36,900 km².

The headwaters of the river rise in the Sayan Mountains and flow from there in a northerly direction through Kansk and then in a westerly direction, passing northwest of Krasnoyarsk and entering the Yenisei near Zelenogorsk just north of Krashoyarsk.

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  • Material translated from the Russian Wikipedia article.

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