Amu Darya River

The Amu Darya River (also known as the Amu, Amo River, or Jayhn) is a large river in Central Asia and Afghanistan. It was formerly known by its Latin name Oxus or Greek. The Amu Darya rises in the Pamir Mountains, north of the Hindu Kush, and is produced by the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve on the Afghan-Tajikistan border, before flowing north-west into the Aral Sea's southern remains.

The Amu Darya River forms part of Afghanistan's northern border with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in its higher reaches. The river was once thought to be the border between Greater Iran and "Turan," which approximately matched to modern-day Central Asia. Gozan was noted by Greek, Mongol, Chinese, Persian, Jewish, and Afghan historians as one of the names by which the river was known in Afghanistan in the 19th century by Western visitors. This name, however, is no longer in use. This river is one of the longest rivers in Turkmenistan.

Length: 2620 km