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Pripet
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Prip·et  (prpt) or Pri·pyat (-yt) or Pry·pyat' (-ych)
A river, about 708 km (440 mi) long, of northern Ukraine flowing generally eastward through the Pripet Marshes, a forested, swampy area, to the Dnieper River north of Kiev.
Pripet [ˈpriːpɪt]
n
(Placename) a river in E Europe, rising in the NW Ukraine and flowing northeast into Belarus across the Pripet Marshes (the largest swamp in Europe), then east into the Dnieper River. Length: about 800 km (500 miles) Russian name Pripyat [ˈprɪpjətj]
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