Vasyugan Swamp

57°34′N 75°39′E / 57.567°N 75.650°E / 57.567; 75.650

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Vasyugan swamp

Vasyugan Swamp (Russia)

The Vasyugan Swamp (Russian: Васюганские болота, romanized: Vasyuganskiye bolota), also the Great Vasyugan Mire ^[1] is the largest swamp in the northern hemisphere as well as the largest peatland in the world.^[2] It is located in Russia, in southwestern Siberia. and occupies 53,000 km² (13,000,000 acres), which is about 2% of the whole area of peat bogs of the world. The swamp is located in the Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Tomsk regions of Russia within the watershed of Ob River and Irtysh River, and stretches between latitudes 55°35' and 58°40' North, and longitudes 74°30' and 83°30' East.^[1]

^ ^a ^b The Great Vasyugan Mire, whc.unesco.org
^ Kirpotin, Sergey N.; Antoshkina, Olga A.; Berezin, Alexandr E.; Elshehawi, Samer; Feurdean, Angelica; Lapshina, Elena D.; Pokrovsky, Oleg S.; Peregon, Anna M.; Semenova, Natalia M.; Tanneberger, Franziska; Volkov, Igor V. (2021-11-01). "Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world's largest peatland helps addressing the world's largest problems". Ambio. 50 (11): 2038–2049. doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01520-2. ISSN 1654-7209. PMC 8497674. PMID 33677811.

[unesco-1] The Great Vasyugan Mire, whc.unesco.org

[2] Kirpotin, Sergey N.; Antoshkina, Olga A.; Berezin, Alexandr E.; Elshehawi, Samer; Feurdean, Angelica; Lapshina, Elena D.; Pokrovsky, Oleg S.; Peregon, Anna M.; Semenova, Natalia M.; Tanneberger, Franziska; Volkov, Igor V. (2021-11-01). "Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world's largest peatland helps addressing the world's largest problems". Ambio. 50 (11): 2038–2049. doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01520-2. ISSN 1654-7209. PMC 8497674. PMID 33677811.

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