The Kolikyogan (,Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ , Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 187 also Колекъёган, often written Kolik"yegan or Kolik'egan) is a river in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russia. It is a right-hand tributary of the westward-flowing Vakh, which it enters from the north. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
The interfluvial area between the Kolikyogan and Sabun rivers of the west Siberian lowland is a zone of raised string bogs covering . It is a status B Ramsar wetland, nominated for designation as a Wetland of International Importance in 2000. The river gives its name to the Verkhae-Kolikyogan oilfield, which has estimated ultimate recovery of oil and of gas.
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