why might many of the region's rivers flow toward the north?

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the region is russia
It looks as though all of them flow north.

http://www.freeworldmaps.net/russia/russia-rivers-map.gif

The interior of Russia is higher than the coast, so the rivers flow downhill to the north into the Arctic Ocean.
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