Orkhon
[ awr-kon ]
noun
a river in eastern central Asia, flowing east, north, and then northeast from the northern central Mongolian People's Republic to the Selenga River. About 400 miles (645 km) long.
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How to use Orkhon in a sentence
The same name seems also to have been applied to the Khangai range at the headwaters of the Orkhon.
I saw a very exciting picture as I passed through a marmot colony near the Orkhon River.
Beasts, Men and Gods | Ferdinand OssendowskiIn 1720, it was on the river Orkhon, near its confluence with the Selenga, some distance north of the present Urga.
The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, | Alexander MichieIt is afterwards joined by the Orkhon, and its tributaries from the Kinghan mountains.
The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, | Alexander Michie
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