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List of rivers by length

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This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth. It includes river systems over 1,000 kilometers.

Contents
1 Definition of length 2 List of rivers longer than 1000 km 2.1 Notes 3 River systems that may have existed in the past 3.1 Amazon-Congo 3.2 West Siberian Glacial Lake drainage 3.3 Nile 3.4 Po 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 External links
View of the River Nile, from a cruiseboat, between Luxor and Aswan in Egypt.

Definition of length
There are many factors, such as the source, the identification or the definition of the mouth, and the scale of measurement[1] of the river length between source and mouth, that determine the precise meaning of "river length". As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations. In particular, there has long been disagreement as to whether the Nile or the Amazon is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in recent years some Brazilian and Peruvian studies have suggested that the Amazon is longer by measuring the river plus the adjacent Par estuary and the longest connecting tidal canal.[2][3][4][5] For the purpose of determining maximum length a river's "true source" is considered to be the source of whichever tributary is farthest from the mouth. This tributary may or may not have the same name as the main stem river. For example, the source of the Mississippi River is normally said to be Lake Itasca in the U.S. state of Minnesota, but the most distant source in the Mississippi system is that of the Jefferson River in the state of Montana, a tributary of the Missouri River which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi. When the Mississippi is measured from mouth to this farthest source, it is called the MississippiMissouriJefferson. Furthermore, it is sometimes hard to state exactly where a river begins, especially rivers that are formed by ephemeral streams, swamps, or changing lakes. In this article, length means the length of the longest continuous river channel in a given river system, regardless of name. The mouth of a river is hard to determine in cases where the river has a large estuary that gradually widens and opens into the ocean; examples are the River Plate and the Saint Lawrence River. Some rivers do not have a mouth, such as the Okavango, Humboldt, Bear and Kern; instead they dwindle to very low water volume and eventually evaporate, or sink into an aquifer, or get diverted for agriculture. The exact point where these rivers end will vary seasonally. The source of some rivers starting in farming areas can be difficult to determine, if the river is formed by the confluence of several farm field drainage ditches which only contain water after rain. Similarly, in rivers starting in a chalk area, such as the Chilterns in south England, the length of the upper course which is dry varies with how high the water table is, which varies with the weather. The length of a river between source and mouth may be hard to determine due to issues of map scale. Small scale maps (those showing large areas) tend to generalize, or "smooth" lines more than large scale maps (those showing small areas).[citation needed ]
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Even when detailed maps are available, the length measurement is not always clear. A river may have multiple channels, or anabranches. The length may depend on whether the center or the edge of the river is measured. It may not be clear how to measure the length through a lake. Seasonal and annual changes may alter both rivers and lakes. Other factors that can change the length of a river include cycles of erosion and flooding, dams, levees, and channelization. In addition, the length of meanders can change significantly over time due to natural or artificial cutoffs, when a new channel cuts across a narrow strip of land, bypassing a large river bend. For example, due to 18 cutoffs created between 1766 and 1885 the length of the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois, to New Orleans, Louisiana, was reduced by 218 miles (351 km).[6] These points make it difficult, if not impossible, to get an accurate measurement of the length of a river. The varying accuracy and precision also makes it difficult to make length comparisons between different rivers without a degree of uncertainty.

List of rivers longer than 1000 km

One should take the aforementioned discussion into account when using the data in the following table. For most rivers, different sources provide conflicting information on the length of a river system. The information in different sources is between parentheses. This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=List_of_rivers_by_length&action=edit).

Continent color key Africa Asia Australia Europe North America South America

River

Length (km)

Length (miles)

Drainage area (km)

Average discharge (m/s)

Outflow

Countries in the drainage basin

1.

Nile Kagera[n 1]

6,650
(6,853)

4,132
(4,258)

3,254,555

5,100

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Mediterranean Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana China United States (98.5%),
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2.

Amazon Ucayali Apurmac[n 1]

6,400
(6,992)

3,976
(4,345)

7,050,000

219,000

Atlantic Ocean

3.

Yangtze
(Chang Jiang)

6,300
(6,418)

3,917
(3,988)

1,800,000

31,900

East China Sea Gulf of

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MississippiMissouriJefferson

6,275

3,902

2,980,000

16,200

Mexico

Canada (1.5%) Russia (97%), Mongolia (2.9%) China Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia

5.

YeniseiAngaraSelenge Yellow River

(Huang He)

5,539

3,445

2,580,000

19,600

Kara Sea

6.

5,464

3,395

745,000

2,110

Bohai Sea

7.

ObIrtysh

5,410

3,364

2,990,000

12,800

Gulf of Ob

Paran Ro de la Plata 8.
[8]

4,880

3,030

2,582,672

18,000

Brazil (46.7%), Argentina (27.7%), Paraguay Ro de la Plata (13.5%), Bolivia (8.3%), Uruguay (3.8%) Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda Russia, China, Mongolia Russia China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam

9.

CongoChambeshi
(Zare)

4,700

2,922

3,680,000

41,800

Atlantic Ocean

10.

AmurArgun
(Heilong Jiang)

4,444 4,400

2,763 2,736

1,855,000 2,490,000

11,400 17,100

Sea of Okhotsk Laptev Sea

11. Lena

12.

Mekong
(Lancang Jiang)

4,350

2,705

810,000

16,000

South China Sea

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2,637

1,790,000

10,300

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14. Niger

4,200

2,611

2,090,000

9,570

(26.6%), Mali (25.6%), Niger (23.6%), Algeria Gulf of Guinea (7.6%), Guinea (4.5%), Cameroon (4.2%), Burkina Faso (3.9%), Cte d'Ivoire, Benin, Chad Southern Ocean Atlantic Ocean, Amazon Caspian Sea Australia Brazil Russia Iraq (60.5%), Turkey (24.8%), Syria (14.7%) Brazil, Bolivia, Peru Brazil, Peru United States (59.8%), Canada (40.2%) Pakistan (93%), India, China Brazil Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

15. MurrayDarling 16. TocantinsAraguaia 17. Volga

3,672[9] 3,650 3,645

2,282 2,270 2,266

1,061,000 950,000 1,380,000

767 13,598 8,080

18. Shatt al-Arab Euphrates

3,596

2,236

884,000

856

Persian Gulf

19. MadeiraMamorGrandeCaineRocha 3,380 20. Purs 21. Yukon 3,211 3,185

2,100 1,995 1,980

1,485,200 63,166 850,000

31,200 8,400 6,210

Amazon Amazon Bering Sea

22. Indus 23. So Francisco

3,180 3,180* (2,900) 3,078

1,976 1,976* (1,802) 1,913

960,000 610,000

7,160 3,300

Arabian Sea Atlantic Ocean Aral Sea

24. Syr Darya Naryn

219,000

703

25.

Salween
(Nu Jiang)

3,060

1,901

324,000

3,153[10]

China (52.4%), Myanmar Andaman Sea (43.9%), Thailand (3.7%)

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26.

Saint Lawrence Niagara Detroit Saint Clair Saint Marys Saint Louis

3,058

1,900

1,030,000

10,100

Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Canada (52.1%), United States (47.9%) United States (52.1%), Mexico (47.9%) Russia India (58.0%), China (19.7%), Nepal (9.0%), Bangladesh (6.6%), Disputed India/China (4.2%), Bhutan (2.4%) Romania (28.9%), Hungary (11.7%), Austria (10.3%), Serbia (10.3%), Germany (7.5%), Slovakia (5.8%), Bulgaria (5.2%), Croatia (4.5%),

27. Rio Grande

3,057 (2,896)

1,900 (1,799)

570,000

82

Gulf of Mexico

28. Lower Tunguska

2,989

1,857

473,000

3,600

Yenisei

29. BrahmaputraTsangpo

2,948*

1,832*

1,730,000

19,200[11]

Ganges

DanubeBreg 30.
(Duna)

2,888*

1,795*

817,000

7,130

Black Sea

31.

Zambezi
(Zambesi)

2,693*

1,673*

1,330,000

4,880

Zambia (41.6%), Angola (18.4%), Zimbabwe (15.6%), Mozambique Mozambique (11.8%), Channel Malawi (8.0%), Tanzania (2.0%),
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Namibia, Botswana 32. Vilyuy 33. Araguaia GangesHooghlyPadma 34.

(Ganga)

2,650 2,627

1,647 1,632

454,000 358,125

1,480 5,510

Lena Tocantins

Russia Brazil

2,620[12]

1,628

907,000

12,037[13]

India, Bay of Bengal Bangladesh, Nepal, China Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan Brazil, Colombia Canada, United States Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina

35. Amu Darya -- Panj Japur

(Rio Yapur)

2,620

1,628

534,739

1,400

Aral Sea

36.

2,615* 2,570

1,625* 1,597

242,259 1,093,000

6,000 2,575

Amazon Hudson Bay

37. NelsonSaskatchewan Paraguay

(Rio Paraguay)

38.

2,549

1,584

900,000

4,300

Paran

39. Kolyma 40. Pilcomayo 41. Upper Ob -- Katun 42. Ishim 43. Juru 44. Ural 45. Arkansas 46. Colorado (western U.S.) 47. Olenyok 48. Dnieper 49. Aldan

2,513 2,500 2,490 2,450 2,410 2,428 2,348 2,333 2,292 2,287 2,273

1,562 1,553 1,547 1,522 1,498 1,509 1,459 1,450 1,424 1,421 1,412

644,000 270,000

3,800

East Siberian Russia Sea Paraguay Ob Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia Russia Kazakhstan, Russia Peru, Brazil Russia, Kazakhstan United States United States, Mexico Russia Russia, Belarus, Ukraine Russia Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central

177,000 200,000 237,000 505,000

(435,122)

56 6,000 475 1,066 1,200 1,210 1,670 5,060

Irtysh Amazon Caspian Sea Mississippi Gulf of California Laptev Sea Black Sea Lena

390,000 219,000 516,300 729,000

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50. UbangiUele[14]

2,270

1,410

772,800

4,000

Congo

African Republic, Republic of Congo Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia United States, Canada China (98.5%), Vietnam (1.5%) United States

51. Negro 52. Columbia

2,250 2,250 (1,953) 2,200 2,188 2,170

1,450 1,450 (1,214) 1,376 1,360 1,348

720,114 415,211

26,700 7,500

Amazon Pacific Ocean South China Sea Mississippi

53. Pearl Zhu Jiang 54. Red (USA) 55. Ayeyarwady

(Irrawaddy)

437,000 78,592 411,000

13,600 875 13,000

Andaman Sea Myanmar Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo United States Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana P. R. China Brazil South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho Argentina Russia Turkey, Iraq, Syria P. R. China Brazil Russia, Ukraine Russia Russia Russia

56. Kasai 57. OhioAllegheny 58. Orinoco 59. Tarim 60. Xingu 61. Orange 62. Northern Salado 63. Vitim 64. Tigris 65. Songhua 66. Tapajs 67. Don 68. Stony Tunguska 69. Pechora 70. Kama 71. Limpopo
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2,153 2,102 2,101 2,100 2,100 2,092 2,010 1,978 1,950 1,927 1,900 1,870 1,865 1,809 1,805 1,800

1,338 1,306 1,306 1,305 1,305 1,300 1,249 1,229 1,212 1,197 1,181 1,162 1,159 1,124 1,122 1,118

880,200 490,603 1,380,000 557,000

10,000 7,957 33,000

Congo Mississippi Atlantic Ocean Lop Nur Amazon Atlantic Ocean Paran Lena Shatt al-Arab Amur Amazon

425,600 240,000 322,000 507,000 413,000

935

Sea of Azov Yenisei Barents Sea Volga

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Indian Ocean South Africa,

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Botswana 72. Guapor (Itenez) 73. Indigirka 74. Snake 75. Senegal 1,749 1,726 1,670 1,641 1,087 1,072 1,038 1,020 360,400 279,719 419,659 1,810 1,611 Mamor Brazil, Bolivia East Siberian Russia Sea Columbia Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean United States Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil Ethiopia, Sudan Canada Russia Namibia, Angola, Botswana

76. Uruguay 77. Murrumbidgee River 77. Blue Nile 77. Churchill 77. Khatanga 77. Okavango

1,610 1,600 1,600 1,600 1,600 1,600

1,000 994 994 994 994 994

370,000

Murray River Australia 326,400 Nile Hudson Bay Laptev Sea Okavango Delta

77. Volta

1,600

994

Ghana, Burkina Faso, Gulf of Guinea Togo, Cte d'Ivoire, Benin 283,350 8,900 Madeira Missouri Irtysh Bolivia United States Kazakhstan, Russia Ethiopia, Somalia Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador Colombia P. R. China Russia United States Russia, Mongolia

83. Beni 84. Platte 85. Tobol

1,599 1,594 1,591

994 990 989

86. JubbaShebelle 87. I (Putumayo) 88. Magdalena 89. Han 90. Oka 91. Pecos 92. Upper Yenisei -- Little Yenisei (KaaHem)

1,580* 1,575 1,550 1,532 1,500 1,490 1,480 1,465 1,438 1,438

982* 979 963 952 932 926 920 910 894 894 102,600 264 312,812 3,061 263,858 9,000

Indian Ocean Amazon Caribbean Yangtze Volga Rio Grande Yenisei

93. Godavari 94. Colorado (Texas) 94. Ro Grande (Guapay)

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96. Belaya 96. CooperBarcoo 98. Maran 99. Dniester 100. Benue 100. Ili
(Yili)

1,420 1,420 1,415 1,411 (1,352) 1,400 1,400 1,400 1,372 1,370 1,370 1,368 1,364 1,360 1,352 1,350 1,345 1,323 1,320 1,320 1,302 1,300 1,300 1,289 1,280 1,271 1,270 1,252 1,242 1,240

882 880 879 877 (840) 870 870 870 852 851 851 850 848 845 840 839 836 822 820 820 809 808 808 801 795 790 789 778 772 771 146,300 119,543 148,268 711 1,950 357,052 3,332 220,000 3,475 366,223 2,950

Kama Lake Eyre Amazon Black Sea Niger Lake Balkhash Lake Eyre Chenab Ganges Kama

Russia Australia Peru Ukraine, Moldova Cameroon, Nigeria P. R. China, Kazakhstan Australia China, India, Pakistan India Russia Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Iran Brazil United States Colombia P. R. China P. R. China Brazil, Argentina Russia Russia Brazil India Democratic Republic of the Congo Canada Mexico Germany, Czech Republic Russia Brazil
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100. WarburtonGeorgina 103. Sutlej 104. Yamuna 105. Vyatka 106. Fraser 107. Mtkvari (Kura) 108. Grande 109. Brazos 110. Cauca 111. Liao 112. Yalong 113. Iguau 113. Olyokma 115. Northern Dvina Sukhona 116. Krishna 116. Iriri 117. Narmada 118. Lomami[15] 119. Ottawa 120. Lerma - Rio Grande de Santiago 121. ElbeVltava 122. Zeya 123. Juruena
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Pacific Ocean Canada Caspian Sea Paran Gulf of Mexico Magdalena Bohai Sea Yangtze Paran Lena White Sea Xingu Arabian Sea Congo Saint Lawrence Pacific North Sea Amur Tapajs

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124. Upper Mississippi

1,236

768

Mississippi

United States Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy (minimal), Belgium, Luxembourg Canada United States South Africa Mozambique, Malawi P. R. China Turkey United States United States, Canada Myanmar Democratic Republic of the Congo China, Vietnam United States Indonesia Russia, Belarus, Ukraine Afghanistan, Iran Peru, Bolivia Brazil Russia
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125. Rhine

1,233

768

198,735

2,330

North Sea

126. Athabasca 127. Canadian 128. North Saskatchewan 129. Vaal 130. Shire 131. Nen
(Nonni)

1,231 1,223 1,220 1,210 1,200 1,190 1,182 1,175 1,173 1,158 1,150 1,150 1,149 1,143 1,143 1,130 1,130 1,130 1,130 1,130

765 760 758 752 746 739 734 730 729 720 715 715 714 710 710 702 702 702 702 702

95,300

Mackenzie Arkansas Orange Zambezi Songhua

Saskatchewan Canada

132. Kzl River 133. Green 134. Milk 135. Chindwin 136. Sankuru 136. Wu 137. Red (Asia) 138. James (Dakotas) 138. Kapuas 140. Desna 140. Helmand 140. Madre de Dios 140. Tiet 140. Vychegda
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115,000

400

Black Sea Colorado (western U.S.) Missouri Ayeyarwady Kasai

80,300 143,700

1,108 2,640

Yangtze River China Gulf of Tonkin Missouri South China Sea

88,900

360

Dnieper Hamun-iHelmand

125,000

4,915

Beni Paran Northern Dvina

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145. Sepik 146. Cimarron 147. Anadyr 147. Paraba do Sul 149. Jialing River 150. Liard 151. Cumberland 152. White 153. Huallaga 153. Kwango 153. Draa 156. Gambia 157. Chenab 158. Yellowstone 158. Ghaghara 160. Huai River 161. Aras

1,126 1,123 1,120 1,120 1,119 1,115 1,105 1,102 1,100 1,100 1,100 1,094 1,086 1,080 1,080 1,078 1,072

700 698 696 696 695 693 687 685 684 684 684 680 675 671 671 670 665

77,700

Papua New Pacific Ocean Guinea, Indonesia Arkansas Gulf of Anadyr Atlantic Ocean Yangtze Mackenzie United States Russia Brazil P. R. China Canada United States United States Peru Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo Morocco The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea India, Pakistan United States India, Nepal, China China Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan Russia, Ukraine Argentina, Bolivia

46,830

862

Mississippi Mississippi Maran

263,500

2,700

Kasai Atlantic Atlantic Indus

114,260 127,950 270,000 102,000 2,990 1,110 285

Missouri Ganges none Kura

162. Chu River 163. Seversky Donets 164. Bermejo 164. Fly 164. Guaviare 164. Kuskokwim 168. Tennessee
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1,067 1,078 (1,053) 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,049

663 670 (654) 652 652 652 652 652

62,500

none Don Paraguay

Papua New Gulf of Papua Guinea, Indonesia Orinoco Bering Sea Ohio Colombia United States United States
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169. Vistula 170. Aruwimi[15]

1,047 1,030

630 640

194,424

1,080

Baltic Sea Congo River

Poland Democratic Republic of the Congo Latvia, Belarus, Russia United States France Guyana Russia Spain, Portugal

171. Daugava

1,020

634

87,900

678

Gulf of Riga Colorado (western U.S.)

172. Gila 173. Loire 174. Essequibo 174. Khoper 176. Tagus
(Tajo/Tejo)

1,015 1,012 1,010 1,010 1,006

631 629 628 628 625 80,100 115,271 840

Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Don Atlantic Ocean

Notes
When the length of a river is followed by an asterisk, it is an average of multiple information sources. If the difference in lengths between given information sources is significant, all lengths are listed. But if the lengths from secondary information sources are similar, they are averaged and that figure has an asterisk. Scientists debate whether the Amazon or the Nile is the longest river in the world. Traditionally, the Nile is considered longer, but recent information suggests that the Amazon may be longer. Differences in the recorded length of the Amazon mainly depend on whether or not it is valid to take a course south of the Ilha de Maraj at the Amazon's mouth. New evidence (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6759291.stm), (dated 16 June 2007) obtained from a high-altitude scientific venture in the Andes, claims that "the Amazon is longer than the Nile by 100km, with its longest headwater being the Carhuasanta stream originating in the south of Peru on the Nevado Mismi mountain's northern slopes and flowing into the Ro Apurmac".[16] However, the origin of the river at Nevado Mismi had already been known more than one decade earlier (see Jacek Palkiewicz (http://www.palkiewicz.com/ekspedycje/index.php?p=zrodl_amaz)), and satellite based measuring from this origin to the Amazon mouth has resulted in not more than 6,400 km. Generally, the most commonly used/anglicised name of the river is used. The name in a native language or alternate spelling may be shown. The exact percentage of each river in countries may be disputed (including the effects of political frontier disputes) or unknown.

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Saint Lawrence River along the New YorkQuebec border.

River systems that may have existed in the past

Amazon-Congo
The Amazon basin formerly drained westwards into the Pacific Ocean, until the Andes rose and reversed the drainage.[17] The Congo basin is completely surrounded by high land, except for its long narrow exit valley past Kinshasa, including waterfalls around Manyanga. That gives the impression that most of the Congo basin was formerly on a much higher land level and that it was rejuvenated by much of its lower course being removed. Before Gondwanaland broke up due to continental drift, the Congo would likely have flowed into the Amazon.

West Siberian Glacial Lake drainage

Main article: West Siberian Glacial Lake This river would have been about 10,000 km (6,200 mi) long, in the last Ice Age. Its longest headwater was the Selenga river of Mongolia: it drained through ice-dammed lakes and the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea.

Nile
Formerly Lake Tanganyika drained northwards into the White Nile, making the Nile somewhere around 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) longer, until in the Miocene the Virunga Volcanoes arose and blocked its course. Also, when the Mediterranean was dry during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Nile extended northwards over the dry seabed and thus may have gained 160 kilometres (99 mi) or more in length.[citation needed ]

Po
When the Mediterranean Sea was dry or much lower during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Po would have extended its course south-eastwards in what is today the seabed of the Adriatic Sea, more or less doubling its current length (652 km), likely varying seasonally according to how far it managed to flow across the hot dry seabed until it dried.[citation needed ]
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See also
Shortest river: D River, Roe River, Ombla River and Reprua River, all four of which are claimed to be the world's shortest river. Lake Ocean River Waterway List of drainage basins by area List of rivers by discharge

Notes and references

Notes
1. ^ a b The Nile is usually said to be the longest river in the world, with a length of about 6,650 km, [5] and the Amazon the second longest, with a length of at least 6,400 km. [4] In recent decades debate has intensified over the true source and therefore the length of the Amazon River. [2][7] Brazilian and Peruvian Studies in 2007 and 2008 added the waterway from the Amazon's southern outlet through tidal canals and the Par estuary of the Tocantins and then concluded that the Amazon has a length of 6,992 km and was longer than the Nile, whose length was calculated as 6,853 km. [3] However, as of 2010 the length of both rivers remains open to interpretation and continued debate. [4]

References
1. ^ for more on this, see coastline paradox 2. ^ a b "Amazon river 'longer than Nile' " (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6759291.stm). BBC News. 16 June 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 3. ^ a b "Studies from INPE indicate that the Amazon River is 140km longer than the Nile" (http://www.inpe.br/ingles/news/news_dest29.php). Brazilian National Institute for Space Research. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 4. ^ a b c "Amazon River" (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/18722/Amazon-River). Encyclopdia Britannica. 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 5. ^ a b "Nile River" (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/415347/Nile-River). Encyclopdia Britannica. 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 6. ^ Largest Rivers in the United States (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1987/ofr87-242/), United States Geological Survey. 7. ^ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070619-amazon-river.html 8. ^ "Ro de la Plata" (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/463804/Rio-de-la-Plata). Encyclopdia Britannica. Retrieved 11 August 2010. 9. ^ http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/landforms/longest-rivers.html GeoScience Australia 10. ^ Syvitski, James P. M., Vrsmarty, Charles J., Kettner, Albert J., Green, Pamela. "Impact of Humans on the Flux of Terrestrial Sediment to the Global Coastal Ocean" (http://web.archive.org/web/20060919054444/http://instaar.colorado.edu/deltaforce/papers/global_sediment_flux.html). Archived from the original (http://instaar.colorado.edu/deltaforce/papers/global_sediment_flux.html) on 2006-09-19. Retrieved 2006-02-27. 11. ^ "River and Drainage System of Bangladesh" (http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/R_0208.htm). Retrieved 2007-02-27.

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External links
Time Almanac 2004 Principal Rivers of the World (http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001779.html) EarthTrends Watersheds of the World (http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/watersheds/index.php) World Resources Institute Amazon river 'longer than Nile' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759291.stm) (BBC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_rivers_by_length&oldid=602939915" Categories: Lists of rivers Lists by length This page was last modified on 6 April 2014 at 00:41. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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