List of rivers by average discharge

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River River A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....	Length (km)	Length (miles)	Drainage area (km²)	Average discharge Discharge (hydrology) In hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. It is contrasted with inflow .... (m³/s)	Outflow
Amazon Amazon River The Amazon River of South America is the list of rivers by length in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next top eight largest rivers combined....	6,387	3,969	6,915,000	219,000	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
Congo Congo River The Congo River is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,700 km makes it the second longest in Africa ....	4,371	2,716	3,680,000	41,800	Atlantic Ocean
Meghna	946	588	1,730,000	40,000	Bay of Bengal Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is a Headlands and bays that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered by India and Sri Lanka to the West, Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal to the North , and Myanmar, southern part of Thailand and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the East....
Orinoco Orinoco The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, . Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia covers 880,000 km?, 76.3% in Venezuela with the rest in Colombia....	2,140	1,330	880,000	31,900	Atlantic Ocean
Yangtze Yangtze River The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang , is the longest river in China and Asia, and the List of rivers by length in the world, after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon River in South America.... (Chang Jiang)	6,380	3,964	1,800,000	31,900	East China Sea East China Sea The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1,249,000 km?. In China, the sea is called the East Sea....
Paraná Paraná River This article is about the second-longest river in South America: For the shorter river in Goi?s, central Brazil, see Paran? RiverThe Paran? River is a river in south central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina over a course of some 2,570 kilometers .... (Río de la Plata Río de la Plata The R?o de la Plata —often rendered in English language as the River Plate or the [La] Plata River—is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paran? River.... )	3,998	2,484	3,100,000	25,700	Atlantic Ocean
Yenisei Yenisei River Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider.... - Angara River - Selenga Selenga The Selenga or Selenge is the chief river in Mongolia and Russia. Its source rivers are the Ideriin gol and the Delgerm?r?n. It flows into Lake Baikal and has a length of 992 km....	5,550	3,449	2,580,000	19,600	Kara Sea Kara Sea The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....
Brahmaputra Brahmaputra River The Brahmaputra, also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a trans-boundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia.From its origin in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Zangbo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges and into Arunachal Pradesh where it is known as Dihang....	2,948	1,832	583,000	19,200	Bay of Bengal Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is a Headlands and bays that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered by India and Sri Lanka to the West, Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal to the North , and Myanmar, southern part of Thailand and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the East....
Lena Lena River The Lena is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean: the Ob River, the Yenisei River and the Lena. It is the 10th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest drainage basin....	4,260	2,647	2,490,000	17,100	Laptev Sea Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the eastern coast of Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands....
Madeira Madeira River The Madeira River is a major waterway in South America, approximately 3,380 km long. Madeira is the longest tributary of Amazon river.The mean inter-annual precipitations on the great basins vary from 750 to 3000 mm, the entire upper Madeira basin receiving 1705 mm/yr.... - Mamoré Mamoré The Mamor? is a large river in Bolivia, which unites with the Beni to form the Madeira River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River....	3,239	2,013	850,000	17,000	Amazon
Mississippi Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.... - Missouri Missouri River The Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, and the longest river in the United States of America. The Missouri begins at the confluence of the Madison River, Jefferson River, and Gallatin River rivers in Montana, and flows through Missouri River Valley south and east into the Mississippi north of St....	6,270	3,896	2,980,000	16,200	Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. Considered a smaller part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an oceanic basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba....
Mekong Mekong The Mekong River is one of the world?s major rivers. It is the 12th-longest river in the world, and 7th longest in Asia. . Its estimated length is , and it drains an area of ....	4,023	2,500	810,000	16,000	South China Sea South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal seasouth of China,west of the Philippines,north west of Sabah , Sarawak and Brunei,north of Indonesia,...
Ganges Ganges River The 'Ganges' is one of the major rivers of the Indian subcontinent, flowing east through the Gangetic Plain of northern India into Bangladesh....	2,510	1,560	907,000	14,270	Bay of Bengal Bay of Bengal The Bay of Bengal is a Headlands and bays that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered by India and Sri Lanka to the West, Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal to the North , and Myanmar, southern part of Thailand and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the East....
Pearl Pearl River (China) The Pearl River or Zhu Jiang, or less commonly, the "Guangdong River" , is China's third longest river , and second largest by volume .... - Xi Jiang Xijiang River Xi River is the western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China.The Xi River begins as it enters Yunnan Province from the autonomous region of eastern Guangxi.... (West) (Si Kang)	2,200	1,376	437,000	13,600	South China Sea
Tocantins Tocantins River The Tocantins is a river, the central fluvial artery of Brazil. It runs from south to north for about . It is not really a branch of the Amazon River, although usually so considered, since its waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean alongside those of the Amazon....	2,699	1,677	1,400,000	13,598	Atlantic Ocean, Amazon
Ayeyarwady River Ayeyarwady River The Ayeyarwady River or Irrawaddy River is a river that flows from north to south of Burma . It is the country's largest river and its most important commercial waterway, with a drainage area of about 158,700 square miles ....	2,170	1,348	411,000	13,000	Andaman Sea Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea is a body of water to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Myanmar, west of Thailand and east of the Andaman Islands; it is part of the Indian Ocean....
Ob' Ob River Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest.... - Irtysh Irtysh Irtysh a river in Siberia, the chief tributary of the Ob River. Its name means White River. It is actually longer than the Ob to their confluence....	5,410	3,449	2,990,000	12,800	Gulf of Ob Gulf of Ob The Gulf of Ob is an immense headlands and bays of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia, at the head of which is the mouth of the Ob River....
Amur Amur The Amur River or Heilong Jiang is the Earth's ninth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China.... (Heilong)	4,352	2,714	1,855,000	11,400	Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north....
Caroní River Caroní River The Caron? River is a major river of the Orinoco basin in South America, having its source in South Eastern Venezuela, in the Guiana Highlands....	952	595	95,000	10,850	Orinoco river
Mackenzie Mackenzie River The Mackenzie River originates in Great Slave Lake, in the Northwest Territories, and flows north into the Arctic Ocean. It is the longest river in Canada at 1,738 km and, together with its headstreams the Peace River and the Finlay River, the second longest river in North America at 4,241 km in length.... - Peace Peace River (Canada) The Peace River is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows through northern Alberta.... - Finlay Finlay River Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and thence south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W.A.C....	4,241	2,635	1,790,000	10,300	Beaufort Sea Beaufort Sea The Beaufort Sea is the portion of the Arctic Ocean located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west of Canadian Arctic islands....
Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence River is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.... - Great Lakes Great Lakes The St. Lawrence River Great Lakes are a chain of fresh water lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada ? United States border. Consisting of Lakes Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth....	3,058	1,900	1,030,000	10,100	Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of Saint Lawrence , the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean....
Niger Niger River The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4180 km . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea....	4,167	2,589	2,090,000	9,570	Atlantic Ocean
Volga river Volga River The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, Discharge , and Drainage basin. It flows through the western part of Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia....	3,692	2,294	1,380,000	8,060	Caspian Sea Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
Sepik Sepik Sepik may refer to places in Papua New Guinea:Sepik RiverEast Sepik - a provinceSandaun - a province formerly known as West SepikSepik region - consisting of East Sepik and Sandaun provinces...	1,126	700	80,321	8,000	Bismarck Sea Bismarck Sea The Bismarck Sea lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the island of Papua New Guinea and to the south of the Bismarck Archipelago and Admiralty Islands....
Columbia river Columbia River The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is named after the Columbia Rediviva, the first ship from the western world known to have traveled up the river....	2,000	1,243	668,000	7,500	Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
Danube Danube The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...	2,860	1,777	817,000	6,500	Black Sea Black Sea The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....

List of rivers by average discharge

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