Below Verkhneuralsk, its flow is characteristic of a flatland river there it enters Chelyabinsk and Orenburg Oblasts. It then falls into the Yaik Swamp and after exiting it widens up to 5 kilometres (3 mi). There it has an average width of 60 to 80 metres (200 to 260 ft) and flows as a typical mountain river. The river begins at the slopes of the Kruglaya Mountain of the Uraltau mountain ridge in South Ural, on the territory of the Uchalinsky District of Bashkortostan. The bridge across the Ural in the Uchalinsky District ( Bashkortostan) From Orenburg it continues west, passing into Kazakhstan, then turning south again at Oral, and meandering through a broad flat plain until it reaches the Caspian a few miles below Atyrau, where it forms a fine 'digitate' (tree-like) delta. The Ural arises near Mount Kruglaya in the Ural Mountains, flows south parallel and west of the north-flowing Tobol, through Magnitogorsk, and around the southern end of the Urals, through Orsk where it turns west for about 300 kilometres (190 mi), to Orenburg, where the river Sakmara joins. The Ural is conventionally considered part of the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia. At 2,428 kilometres (1,509 mi), it is the third-longest river in Europe after the Volga and the Danube, and the 18th-longest river in Asia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea. The Ural ( Russian: Урал, pronounced ), known as Yaik ( Russian: Яик, Bashkir: Яйыҡ, romanized: Yayıq, pronounced Kazakh: Жайық, romanized: Zhayyk, جايىق, pronounced ) before 1775, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia. Ural River Delta and adjacent Caspian Sea coast
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