Bidzhan
Sign in to saveThe Bidzhan () is a river in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Bidzhan comes from the Tungusic word "Bidzen", meaning "Permanent settlement"). The river is about long, the width wide and deep. Bidzhan is formed by the confluence of the source rivers Pravyy Bidzhan and Levyy Bidzhan in the Lesser Khingan and runs from there from north to south and ends up flowing along the larger river Amur. Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, is partly named after the river.
Key facts
- River.name
- Bidzhan
- River.source1
- confluence of Pravyy Bidzhan and Levyy Bidzhan
- River.mouth
- Amur
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 274
- River.basin_size_km2
- 7940
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Elevation
- 46
- Length
- 274
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Amur River
- watershed area
- 7940
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The Bidzhan () is a river in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. Bidzhan comes from the Tungusic word "Bidzen", meaning "Permanent settlement"). The river is about long, the width wide and deep. Bidzhan is formed by the confluence of the source rivers Pravyy Bidzhan and Levyy Bidzhan in the Lesser Khingan and runs from there from north to south and ends up flowing along the larger river Amur. Birobidzhan, the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, is partly named after the river.
==See also== List of rivers of Russia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bidzhan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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