Amu Darya, one of the longest rivers of Central Asia. The Amu Darya was traditionally known to the Western world from Greek and Roman times as the Oxus and was called the Jayḥūn by the Arabs.

Amu Darya, ancient Oxus River, River, Central Asia. It is one of the longest rivers in Central Asia, 1,578 mi (2,540 km) long measured from the remotest sources of the Panj River; its other headstream is the Vakhsh. It flows west-northwest to its mouth on the Aral Sea.

The Amu Darya is considered the most heavily silted river in the world, with its high volume of suspended material giving it its characteristic murky yellow coloring. The eastern parts of the river in Turkestan have natural gas reserves.

2011年4月28日 · The Oxus is a river, today called Amu Darya in its western part and Wakhsh in its eastern parts, which flows for a length of 2400 km across modern Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan into Lake Aral. In Ancient times it crossed the regions Fergana, Bactria, Oxeiana, Sogdiana and Khiva.

2023年4月29日 · Amu Darya is a legendary river running through Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It has been mentioned in history for already thousands of years and was know for a long time by the name of Oxus…

The Soviet and post-Soviet mismanagement of the Amu Darya has played the leading role in the contemporary Aral Sea Crisis, during which the Aral Sea shrunk by 90%, and its seafloor became the world's youngest desert.

2023年5月4日 · The Basin Water Organization (BWO) Amu Darya, established in 1980s, is responsible for implementation of decisions on water allocation and distribution. The BWO is also responsible for operation and maintenance of all major water structures.

The Amu-Darya basin is a highly productive petroleum province in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (former Soviet Union), extending southwestward into Iran and southeastward into Afghanistan. The basin underlies deserts and semideserts north of the high ridges of the Kopet-Dag and Bande-Turkestan Mountains.

2024年11月11日 · Here in Khorezm, in the north-west of Uzbekistan, the Amu Darya sprawls out in a flurry of canals and channels, critical to the oasis of life in this vast, desert delta. Yet despite the tranquillity of the scene, the Amu Darya delta is the site of dramatic environmental violence.

2002年11月8日 · The Amu Darya River, known in ancient times as the Oxus, is the largest river in central Asia and is formed by the junction of the Pandj and Vakhsh rivers. It extends some 2,550 km from its headwaters in the high mountains of Afghanistan and Tadzhikistan to the end of the delta (Samajlov, 1956) where it enters the Aral Sea.