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  • noun an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk

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Examples

  • Far away to the east, on the great Amur River, which is the boundary between the Amur province and Manchuria, as well as in the coast province of Ussuri, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, occur tigers and panthers.

    From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

  • Equally clear was the extent of Russian fear and outrage during the winter of 1970–71, grimly visible both in Moscow and along the Amur River border with northeastern China.53 Washington was not driving the new relationship with China.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

  • Those "Russians" who created the earliest known pottery to date along the Amur River could just as easily have been Jomon Culture people.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • The whole region drains into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) through the Songhua River, a major tributary of the Amur River of the Russian Far East.

    Nenjiang River grassland 2008

  • Russian tribes how do they know they were "Russian" tribes? inhabited Khabarovsk Region in the Stone Age, the archeologists said after finding a 15,000-year-old hunters' settlement on the bank of the Amur River in Khabarovsk.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • Russian tribes how do they know they were "Russian" tribes? inhabited Khabarovsk Region in the Stone Age, the archeologists said after finding a 15,000-year-old hunters' settlement on the bank of the Amur River in Khabarovsk.

    Chess, Goddess and Everything Jan 2008

  • After it receives the flow of the Songhua River (10.9 km3/year), the Amur River flows into the Russian Federation.

    Water profile of China 2008

  • The Pacific Ocean Drainage Basin is characterized by numerous rivers and marshes notably the Onon river which drains east to the Amur River.

    Daurian forest steppe 2008

  • Manchurian mixed forests occupy lower elevation hill areas that extend from the northern part of the Korean Peninsula northward into the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Laioning and still further north into Heilongjiang and the Amur River area of the Russian Far East.

    Manchurian mixed forests 2008

  • Those "Russians" who created the earliest known pottery to date along the Amur River could just as easily have been Jomon Culture people.

    Chess, Goddess and Everything Jan 2008

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