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A⋅na⋅dyr

  [ah-nuh-deer]
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–noun
a river in NE Siberian Russia, flowing SW and E to Anadyr Bay, on the Bering Sea. 695 mi. (1118 km) long.
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A·na·dyr   (ä'nə-dîr')   
A river of northeast Russia rising in the Anadyr Plateau and flowing about 1,118 km (695 mi) south and then east to Anadyr Bay, an inlet of the Bering Sea.
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Anadyr

town and administrative centre, Chukchi autonomous okrug (district), far northeastern Russia. It lies on the southern shore of the estuary of the Anadyr River, which empties into the Bering Sea. Incorporated as a town in 1965, it is a port on the Northern Sea Route and has a meteorologic station and a fishery factory. Small amounts of lignite (brown coal) for local needs are mined nearby. Pop. (2006 est.) 11,193.

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