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Ob River
The Ob and Yenisey river basins and their drainage networks.
The Ob River has a catchment area of approximately 1,150,000 square miles (2,975,000 square km). This makes it the sixth largest drainage basin in the world and accounts for about half of the drainage basin of the Kara Sea.1