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The Morghāb River ( Persian / Pashto: مرغاب ), also transliterated as Murgab from Russian Мургаб, is an 850 km long river in Central Asia.

It rises in north-western Afghanistan and runs north-west towards the Murghab District, which takes it name from the river, and then the Kara Kum desert in Turkmenistan, where it peters out.