Amoor

Proper noun

Amur

1. The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.
   • If, then, the southern districts of European Russia be exposed to a winter more severe than those of France or Germany, they may boast in their turn a more genial climate than the banks of the Ural and the Amur; while all are subject to a dispensation of nature which extends too far, and acts too...1830, Amelia Shipley Heber, editor, The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D., volume 1, London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 568

   Synonyms:

   Heilongjiang

2. An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.
   • The unmanned probe was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket at 23:10 GMT from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far eastern Amur Region. It is expected to reach lunar orbit in 4-5 days.2023 August 11, “Russia launches Luna-25 mission to be 1st to reach moon’s South Pole”, in EFE, sourced from Moscow, (EFE), archived from the original on 23 Sep 2023

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