Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Source
- Lake Imandra
- Mouth
- White Sea
- Length
- 36 km (22 mi)
- Basin size
- 12,830 km (4,950 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Murmansk Oblast
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Река Нива.jpg
- Length
- 36
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- Commons category
- Niva River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Kandalaksha Gulf
- origin of the watercourse
- Imandra
- category for the water basin
- Category:Niva basin
- watershed area
- 12800
- discharge
- 164
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Niva (Russian: Нива) is a river in the Murmansk Oblast in Russia. It is 36 kilometres (22 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 12,830 square kilometres (4,950 sq mi). The Niva flows out of the Lake Imandra and into the Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea. The town of Kandalaksha is located in the estuary of the Niva.
Its maximum depth is 24 feet (7.3 m).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Niva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.