Pripyat River facts for kids

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Pripyat River
Map displaying the course of the river, flowing eastward through southern Belarus through the cities of Brest, Pinsk and Mazyr
Country	Ukraine, Belarus
Physical characteristics
Main source	Ukraine
River mouth	Dnieper
Length	761 km (473 mi)
Basin features
Basin size	121,000 km2 (47,000 sq mi)
Tributaries	Left: Pina, Yaselda, Tsna, Lan, Sluch, Ptsich, Braginka Right: Turija, Stokhid, Styr, Horyn, Ubort, Zhelon, Slovechna, Uzh

The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe. It is about 710 km (440 mi) long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again. It drains into the Dnieper.

The Pripyat passes through the zone of alienation around the Chernobyl reactor, site of the nuclear disaster. It is polluted with radionuclides. The amount of caesium-137 in river sediments continues to go up. The city of Prypiat, Ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the Chernobyl disaster.

Pripyat River at Mazyr, Belarus

Tributaries

• Horyn River (659 km; 22,700 km²)
  • Sluch (451 km; 13,800 km²)

Images for kids

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  The Pripyat at Polesia

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  Another map of the Pripyat

See also

In Spanish: Río Prípiat para niños