{"id":22272,"date":"2024-04-08T07:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22272"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:05:10","slug":"ural-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ural-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Ural River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Ural River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>2,428 km<\/strong> long river that flows through <strong>Russia and Kazakhstan<\/strong> along the <strong>continental boundary between Europe and Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also referred to as the <strong>Zhayyq River<\/strong> in the native <strong>Kazakh language<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The river <strong>originates in the Ural Mountains,<\/strong> close to Mount Kruglaya <strong>in Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>empties into the Caspian Sea<\/strong>; the <strong>world\u2019s largest inland sea<\/strong> that lies between Europe and Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>Europe&#8217;s third-longest river,<\/strong> after the Volga and the Danube rivers, and Asia&#8217;s 19th longest river.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melting snow<\/strong> constitutes about 60% to <strong>70% of the river\u2019s water source<\/strong>, while precipitation is a minor source.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>prominent feature<\/strong> of the Ural River is <strong>itsdigitate delta<\/strong>, or tree-like structure, that can be seen as the river enters the Caspian Sea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a total of <strong>58 tributaries<\/strong>, with the most prominent ones being <strong>Kushum, Derkul, Chagan, Irtek,<\/strong> Utva, Elek, Bolshaya Chobda, Kindel, Sakmara, Tanalyk, Salmys, <strong>Or,<\/strong> and Suunduk.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries from<\/strong> the <strong>right side are typical mountain rivers,<\/strong> while the left side tributaries have flatland characteristics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Orsk City<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Orenburg Oblast region<\/strong>, <strong>Russia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It lies about 150 miles (240 km) south of Magnitogorsk at the <strong>confluence of the Ural and Or rivers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It lies <strong>adjacent to<\/strong> the <strong>Kazakhstan\u2013Russia border<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Orsk is now a <strong>major industrial centre<\/strong>, with a <strong>large oil refinery<\/strong> using petroleum piped from fields on the Caspian Sea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Which countries border the Caspian Sea?<\/h3>\n<p>The Caspian Sea is bordered by five countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ural River is a 2,428 km long river that flows through Russia and Kazakhstan along the continental boundary between Europe and Asia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}