River
Amur River
2,824 km from source to mouth · Russia and China.
Russia and ChinaFlows into Sea of Okhotsk7th longest in Russia
In numbers
Length
2,824km
Average flow
12,800m³/s
Basin
1,855,000km²
Drop
306m
from 303 m to -3 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
2,824 km of river and 43 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmOnon Riverat 303 m
- 3 kmShilkatributary
- 3 kmArgun Rivertributary
- 44 kmAmazartributary
- 99 kmUrusha Rivertributary
- 137 kmOldoytributary
- 219 kmEmuertributary
- 597 kmOzero Krivoye (lanaw nga porma ug arko sa Rusya, Amurskaya Oblast', lat 51,68, long 126,76)0.3 km²
- 612 kmHuma Rivertributary
- 695 kmBusse557 people
- 787 kmOzero Krivoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Amurskaya Oblast', lat 50,50, long 127,35)0.8 km²
- 824 kmHeihe223,832 people
- 825 kmBlagoveshchensk225,091 people
- 831 kmZeyatributary
- 835 kmBlagoveshchensk–Heihe Bridge
- 861 kmAihui192,764 people
- 984 kmZavitayatributary
- 1,086 kmBureyatributary
- 1,129 kmArkharatributary
- 1,489 kmBidzhantributary
- 1,505 kmSonghua Rivertributary
- 1,538 kmTongjiang-Nizhneleninskoye railway bridge
- 1,587 kmBiratributary
- 1,682 kmFuyuan30,000 people
- 1,719 kmUssuritributary
- 1,747 kmKhabarovsk615,600 people
- 1,753 kmAmur River Tunnel
- 1,754 kmKhabarovsk Bridge
- 1,762 kmTunguskatributary
- 1,908 kmAnyuy Rivertributary
- 1,970 kmInnokentyevskoe30 km²
- 2,029 kmGurtributary
- 2,040 kmPadali28 km²
- 2,042 kmAmursk46,993 people
- 2,059 kmKhummi111 km²
- 2,076 kmKomsomolsk-on-Amur road-rail bridge
- 2,078 kmOzero Pivan'0.6 km²
- 2,148 kmGorintributary
- 2,304 kmLimuritributary
- 2,405 kmUdyl327 km²
- 2,463 kmOzero Po1.8 km²
- 2,468 kmOzero Kyzymshtu1.5 km²
- 2,526 kmAmgun Rivertributary
- 2,611 kmNikolayevsk-on-Amure27,152 people
- 2,824 kmSea of Okhotskat -3 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Major river in eastern Russia and northeastern China, with tributaries also in Mongolia
At the mouth it carries 12,800 m³/s on average: 5.1 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 303 m to -3 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,855,000 km², about the size of SD. 66.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from July to October; lowest: from December to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (25% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- KhabarovskLargest city on its banks · 615,600 people
- Khabarovsk Novy Airport (KHV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 10 km from the city
- On the water62 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Amur River, month by month
Highest water: from July to October
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 3,500 m³/s in the lowest month to 21,700 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Amur River: the basin in numbers
1,998,203 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 66.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 34/km²people per km²
- 536maverage altitude of the basin
- 545mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -1.2°Caverage air temperature
- 10%protected areas
- 1.0%covered by lakes
- 18%permafrost
- 85km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 52% Forest
- 13% Cropland
- 17% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Amur River: what you find on the way
- 4Boat ramps
- 49Ferry piersBlagoveschensk Port, River Terminal and 47 more
- 9Marinas
- 3River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 3.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Amur River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
9lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (9)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ozero Krivoye (lanaw sa Rusya, Amurskaya Oblast', lat 50,50, long 127,35)km 7910.8km²
- Innokentyevskoekm 1,98030km²
- Padalikm 2,05028km²
- Khummikm 2,070 · 4 m deep111km²
- Ozero Pivan'km 2,0880.6km²
- Udylkm 2,417 · 5 m deep327km²
- Ozero Pokm 2,4761.8km²
- Ozero Kyzymshtukm 2,4801.5km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Amur River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (26)
China1,620 km190 m³/sjoins at km 3Songhua RiverChina1,434 km2,500 m³/sjoins at km 1,513ZeyaRussia1,242 km1,900 m³/sjoins at km 835UssuriRussia897 km1,200 m³/sjoins at km 1,728BureyaRussia623 km890 m³/sjoins at km 1,092ShilkaRussia560 km550 m³/sjoins at km 3Huma RiverChina435 km130 m³/sjoins at km 615Also: Amgun River, Bira, Tunguska, Anyuy River, Gorin, Amazar, Bidzhan, Gur, Urusha River, Emuer, Zavitaya, Oldoy, Arkhara, Limuri, Urka, Raychikha, Ulmin, Khingan, Vertoprashikha
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q6862) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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