River

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River lists

(See also :Category:Lists of rivers.)

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The world's ten longest rivers

It is difficult to measure the length of a river, mainly because rivers have a fractal property, which means that the more precise the measure, the longer the river will seem. Also, it's hard to state exactly where a river begins or ends, as very often, upstream, rivers are formed by seasonal streams, swamps, or changing lakes.

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This is an average measurement.

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• Amazon (6,762 km)
• Nile (6,690 km)
• Yangtze (Chang Jiang) (6,380 km)
• Mississippi-Missouri (6,270 km)
• Ob-Irtysh (5,570 km)
• Huang He (Yellow) (5,464 km)
• Amur (4,410 km)
• Congo (4,380 km or 4,670 km). (The source of this river is disputed.)
• Lena (4,260 km)
• Mackenzie (4,240 km)

For a longer list see Longest rivers. This also gives more information on measuring river lengths. Note that some sources list the Nile as the longest river in the world.

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Well-known rivers (in alphabetic order)

• Aa - multiple rivers in Europe
• Amazon - largest river in the world
• American
• Amu Darya
• Amur - principal river of eastern Siberia
• Arkansas - major tributary of Mississippi River
• Arno - river through Florence
• Brahmaputra - principal river in North East India & Tibet
• Chao Phraya - principal river of Thailand
• Colorado (Argentina)
• Colorado (U.S.) - principal river of American West
• Columbia - principal river of Pacific Northwest
• Congo - principal river of central Africa
• Danube - principal river of central and southeastern Europe
• De La Plata - the widest river in the world. South America
• Ebro - river in northwest Spain
• Elbe - major German river, Hamburg is situated on it
• Euphrates - twin principal river of Mesopotamia(Iraq)
• Ganges - principal river of India
• Han-gang - river of Seoul
• Hari Rud
• Huang He (Yellow) - principal river of China
• Hudson - principal river of New York
• Indus - principal river of Pakistan
• Jordan - principal river of Israel
• Kaveri - principal river of South India
• Lena - principal river of northeastern Siberia
• Mackenzie - longest river in Canada
• Magdalena - principal river of Colombia
• Main - river in Germany
• Mekong - principal river of Southeast Asia
• Mersey - river on which sits the English city of Liverpool
• Meuse - principal river of the southern provinces of the Netherlands and eastern Belgium.
• Mississippi - principal river of central United States
• Missouri - principal river of the Great Plains
• Murray - principal river of southeastern Australia
• Niger - principal river of west Africa
• Nile - Possibly the longest river in the world (or second after the Amazon)
• Ob - large river of Siberia
• Odra - major river in Eastern Europe
• Ohio - largest river between Mississippi and Appalachians
• Orinoco - principal river of Venezuela
• Parana - major South American river
• Paraguay - principal tributary of Parana river and major South American river in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina
• Po - principal river of Italy
• Potomac River - principal river of the District of Columbia in the United States
• Rhine - principal river of northwestern Europe
• Rhône - principal river of southern France
• Rio Grande - border between United States and Mexico
• Saint Lawrence - drains Great Lakes
• Seine - river of Paris
• Segura- in southeast Spain
• Severn- longest river in Great Britain
• Shinano-gawa - longest river in Japan
• Snake - largest tributary to the Columbia river in Washington
• Tajo - largest river in the Iberian Peninsula
• Tay - largest river in Scotland
• Thames - river of London
• Tiber - river of Rome
• Tigris - twin principal river of Mesopotamia(Iraq)
• Tonegawa - largest river in Japan
• Vistula - principal river of Poland
• Volga - principal river of Russia
• Yangtze (Chang Jiang) - longest river in China
• Yenisei - large river of Siberia
• Yukon - principal river of Alaska and Yukon Territory
• Zambezi - principal river of southeastern Africa

Other lists

• List of waterways
• List of rivers by continent
• List of rivers of Europe
• Rivers of the United Kingdom
• List of rivers of Asia
• List of rivers of Africa
• List of rivers of Australia
• List of rivers of New Zealand
• List of rivers of the Americas
• List of rivers of Oceania
• List of river name etymologies