List of rivers by length

List of Rivers By Length

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List of rivers by length

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

Definition of length
The length of a river is hard to calculate. It depends on the identification of the source, the identification of the mouth, and the precise measurement of the river length between source and mouth.

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

Definition of length

The length of a river is hard to calculate. It depends on the identification of the source, the identification of the mouth, and the precise measurement of the river length between source and mouth. As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations. In particular, there has long been disagreement as to whether the 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....
or the Nile

Nile

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....
is the world's longest river.

The source of a river may be hard to determine because a river typically has many tributaries. Among the many sources, the one that is farthest away from the mouth is considered as the source of the river, thus giving a maximal river length. In practice, the tributary

Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
with the farthest source is not always the one given the name of the river. For example, the farthest source of the Mississippi River

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....
system is the source of the Jefferson River

Jefferson River

The Jefferson River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Montana.The Jefferson River and the Madison River form the official beginning of the Missouri at Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three Forks, Montana....
, a tributary of the Missouri River

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....
which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi. However, a different (and shorter) tributary is identified as the Mississippi. When the river is measured from mouth to farthest source, it is called the Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson. Also, it is hard to state exactly where a river begins as very often rivers are formed by seasonal streams, swamp

Swamp

A swamp is a wetland featuring temporary or permanent inundation of large areas of land, by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a substantial number of hammock , or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation....
s, or changing lake

Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
s. In this article, length means the length of the river system, including all tributaries.

The mouth of a river is hard to determine in cases where the river has a large estuary

Estuary

An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....
that gradually widens and opens into the ocean; examples are the River Plate

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....
and the Saint Lawrence River

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....
. Some rivers like the Okavango

Okavango River

The Okavango River is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km ....
do not have a mouth; 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 length of a river between source and mouth may be hard to determine because of a lack of precise map

Map

A map is a visual representation of an area?a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as Object , regions, and topic-comment....
s. In these cases, the measured length of a river will depend on the scale of the map on which the measurement is based; in general, due to the fractal

Fractal

A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented Shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity....
quality of a river, the finer the scale

Scale (map)

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, the longer the resulting length measurement. This issue was discovered by Lewis Fry Richardson

Lewis Fry Richardson

Lewis Fry Richardson, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them....
and also applies when measuring borders between countries and coastlines. According to the generally accepted ideal, length measurements should be based on maps that are of a large enough scale to show the width of the river, and the path measured is the path a small boat would take down the middle of the river.

Even when precise maps are available, the length measurement is not always clear. A river may have multiple arms. It may depend on whether the center or the edge of the river is taken as reference point. It may not be clear how to measure the length through a lake: this may also vary by season. These points make it difficult, if not impossible, to get a precise (or comparable ) measurement of the length of a river or stream.

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.

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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	Countries Country Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas.... in the drainage basin
1.**	Nile Nile The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....	6,650	4,135	3,349,000	5,100	Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast.... , Eritrea Eritrea Eritrea , officially the Country of Eritrea, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast.... , Sudan Sudan Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area.... , Uganda Uganda The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania.... , Tanzania Tanzania Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south.... , Kenya Kenya The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border.... , Rwanda Rwanda The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.... , Burundi Burundi Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the south and east, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.... , Egypt Egypt Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.... , Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo , is a country in central Africa with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest list of African countries in order of geographical area....
2.**	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....	6,400	3,980	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....	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world.... , Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.... , Bolivia Bolivia The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west.... , Colombia Colombia Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.... , Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west.... , Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea.... , Guyana Guyana Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....
3.	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)	6,300	3,917	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....	P.R. China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
4.	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....	6,275	3,902	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....	United States United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U... (98.5%), Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean.... (1.5%)
5.	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 - 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....	5,539	3,445	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....	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
6.	Yellow Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length in the world at 4,845 kilometers .... (Huang He)	5,464	3,398	745,000	2,110	Bohai Sea Bohai Sea Bo Hai , also known as Bohai Sea or Bohai Gulf, is the innermost Headlands and bays of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China.... (Balhae Balhae Balhae was an ancient multiethnic empire established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's capital and southern territories fell to Unified Silla, Dae Jo-young, a former Goguryeo general, whose father was Dae Jung-sang, established Jin , later called Balhae.... )	P.R. China
7.	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	3,364	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....	Russia, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? .... , P.R. China, Mongolia
8.	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 .... - Chambeshi Chambeshi River The Chambeshi River is a river in northeastern Zambia. It is the furthest headstream of the Congo River in terms of length. . The Chambeshi rises as a stream in the mountains of northeast Zambia near Lake Tanganyika at an elevation of 1760 metres above sea level.... (Zaire)	4,700	2,922	3,680,000	41,800	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....	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic Central African Republic The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west.... , Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.... , Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo , also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda , and the Gulf of Guinea.... , Tanzania Tanzania Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south.... , Cameroon Cameroon The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.... , Zambia Zambia The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.... , Burundi Burundi Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the south and east, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.... , Rwanda Rwanda The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
9.	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.... - Argun Argun River Argun River may refer toArgun River Argun River Excess long comment to prevent listing on... (Heilong Jiang)	4,444	2,763	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....	Russia, P.R. China, Mongolia
10.	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....	4,400	2,736	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....	Russia
11.	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 .... (Lancang Jiang)	4,350	2,705	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,...	Laos Laos Laos , officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.... , Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar.... , P.R. China, Cambodia Cambodia The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh.... , Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east.... , Myanmar Myanmar Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
12.	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	2,637	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....	Canada
13.	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....	4,200	2,611	2,090,000	9,570	Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Guinea The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian is in the gulf. According to the International Hydrographic Organization, the Gulf's oceanic border is the rhumb line that runs from Cape Palmas in Liberia to Cape Lopez in Gabon ....	Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.... (26.6%), Mali Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west.... (25.6%), Niger Niger Niger , officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east.... (23.6%), Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.... (7.6%), Guinea Guinea Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 .... (4.5%), Cameroon Cameroon The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.... (4.2%), Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Burkina Faso , also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and C?te d'Ivoire to the south west.... (3.9%), Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire , formerly Ivory Coast, officially the , is a country in West Africa. The government officially discourages the use of the name Ivory Coast in English, preferring the French name to be used in all languages .... , Benin Benin Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin.... , Chad Chad Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west....
14.	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	2,486	3,100,000	25,700	Atlantic Ocean	Brazil (46.7%), Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city.... (27.7%), Paraguay Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.... (13.5%), Bolivia (8.3%), Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area.... (3.8%)
15.	Volga	3,645	2,266	1,380,000	8,080	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 ....	Russia (99.8%), Kazakhstan (minor)
16.	Shatt al-Arab - Euphrates Euphrates The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....	3,596	2,236	884,000	856	Persian Gulf Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically and commonly known as the Persian Gulf, this body of water is sometimes Persian Gulf naming dispute referred to as the Arabian Gulf by certain Arab countries or simply The Gulf, although nei...	Iraq Iraq Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.... (40.5%), Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe.... (24.8%), Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.... (19.7%), Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north.... (14.7%)
17.	Purus Purus The Purus is a river in South America. Its drainage basin is 63,166 km?. The mean discharge is 8,400 m?/s.It enters the Amazon River west of the Madeira River, which it parallels as far south as the falls of the latter stream....	3,379	2,101	63,166	8,400	Amazon	Brazil, Peru
18.	Murray Murray River The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray", is Australia's largest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between... - Darling Darling River The Darling River is the third longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales, New South Wales....	3,370	2,094	1,061,000	767	Southern Ocean Southern Ocean The Southern Ocean, also known as the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the South Polar Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean south of 60th parallel south latitude....	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
19.	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	3,239	2,014	850,000	17,000	Amazon	Brazil, Bolivia, Peru
20.	Yukon Yukon River The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. Over half of the river lies in the U.S. state of Alaska, with most of the other portion lying in and giving its name to Canada Yukon Territory, and a small part of the river near the source located in British Columbia....	3,184	1,980	850,000	6,210	Bering Sea Bering Sea The Bering Sea is a body of water in the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelf....	United States (59.8%), Canada (40.2%)
21.	Indus Indus River File:Indian subcontinent CIA.pngThe Indus River is the longest river in Pakistan and the twenty-first largest river in the world, in terms of annual flow, on the Indian Subcontinent.... (Sindhu)	3,180	1,976	960,000	7,160	Arabian Sea Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th... (93%), India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world.... , P. R. China, disputed territory (Kashmir Kashmir Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" referred only to the valley lying between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal range; since then, it has been used for a larger area that today includes the Indian administerd state of Jammu and Kashmir consisting of the Kashmir... ), Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
22.	São Francisco São Francisco River The S?o Francisco River is a river in Brazil with a length of 3,160 kilometres. It is the fourth largest river system in South before turning east to form the border between the state of Bahia and the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas before entering the Atlantic Ocean between the states of Alagoas and Sergipe....	3,180* (2,900)	1,976* (1,802)	610,000	3,300	Atlantic Ocean	Brazil
23.	Syr Darya Syr Darya Syr Darya is a river in Central Asia, sometimes known as the Jaxartes or Yaxartes from its Ancient Greek name . The Greek name is derived from Old Persian, Yakhsha Arta , a reference to the color of the river's water.... - Naryn Naryn River The Naryn River rises in the Tien Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, flowing west through the Fergana Valley into Uzbekistan. Here it Confluence with the Kara Darya River to form the Syr Darya....	3,078	1,913	219,000	703	Aral Sea Aral Sea The Aral Sea is a landlocked endorheic basin in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south....	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east.... , Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union.... , Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east....
24.	Salween Salween River The Salween River rises in Tibet , after which it flows through Yunnan, where it is known as the Nujiang river , although either name can be used for the whole river.... (Nu Jiang)	3,060	1,901	324,000	3,153	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....	P.R. China (52.4%), Myanmar (43.9%), Thailand (3.7%)
25.	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.... - Niagara Niagara River The Niagara River flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It serves as part of the border between the Province of Ontario in Canada and New York State in the United States.... -Detroit Detroit River The Detroit River is a river in the Great Lakes system, about 32 miles long and 0.5 to 2.5 miles wide. The name comes from French language Rivi?re du D?troit, i.e.... -Saint Clair St. Clair River The St. Clair River is a river in central North America which drains Lake Huron into Lake St Clair , forming part of the United States-Canada border between the Canada province of Ontario and the United States state of Michigan.... -Saint Marys St. Marys River (Michigan-Ontario) The St. Marys River , sometimes written as the St. Mary's River, drains Lake Superior, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and flowing 120 km southeast into Lake Huron.... -Saint Louis Saint Louis River The St. Louis River is a river in the U.S. State of Minnesota that flows into Lake Superior. The largest river to flow into the lake, it is 179 miles in length and starts near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota....	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....	Canada (52.1%), United States (47.9%)
26.	Rio Grande Rio Grande For the railroad often known as the Rio Grande, see Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.The Rio Grande River in the United States, known as the R?o Bravo in Mexico, is a river, long, is the fourth longest river system in the United States and serves as a natural boundary along the border between the U.S....	3,057 (2,896)	1,900 (1,799)	570,000	82	Gulf of Mexico	United States (52.1%), Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico.... (47.9%)
27.	Lower Tunguska Lower Tunguska The Nizhnyaya Tunguska is a river in Siberia, Russia. It has a length of 2,989 km and is a right tributary of the Yenisei. It flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai....	2,989	1,857	473,000	3,600	Yenisei	Russia
28.	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*	1,730,000	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....	India (58.0%), P.R. China (19.7%), Nepal Nepal Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India.... (9.0%), Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south.... (6.6%), Disputed India/P.R. China (4.2%), Bhutan Bhutan The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.... (2.4%)
29.	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...	2,850*	1,771*	817,000	7,130	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....	Romania Romania Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea.... (28.9%), Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia.... (11.7%), Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.... (10.3%), Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans.... (10.3%), Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.... (7.5%), Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements.... (5.8%), Bulgaria Bulgaria The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries.... (5.2%), Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas... (4.8%), Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea.... (4.5%), Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south.... (3.8%), Moldova Moldova Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south.... (1.7%).
30.	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	Brazil
31.	Zambezi Zambezi The Zambezi is the List of rivers by length river in Africa, and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its drainage basin is 1,390,000 km? , slightly less than half that of the Nile.... (Zambesi)	2,693*	1,673*	1,330,000	4,880	Mozambique Channel Mozambique Channel The Mozambique Channel is a portion of the Indian Ocean between the island of Madagascar and southeast Africa, namely Mozambique. It was a World War II clashpoint during the Battle of Madagascar....	Zambia Zambia The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.... (41.6%), Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.... (18.4%), Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east.... (15.6%), Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.... (11.8%), Malawi Malawi The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west.... (8.0%), Tanzania Tanzania Tanzania , officially the United Republic of Tanzania , is a country in East Africa that is bordered by Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south.... (2.0%), Namibia Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south.... , Botswana Botswana The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966....
32.	Vilyuy Vilyuy The Vilyuy River is the longest tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia. The river is approximately 2,650 km long, of which around 1,450 km is navigable....	2,650	1,647	454,000	1,480	Lena	Russia
33.	Araguaia Araguaia River The Araguaia River or, in Portuguese, Rio Araguaia is one of the major rivers of Brazil, and the principal tributary of the Tocantins River....	2,627	1,632	358,125	6,172	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....	Brazil
34.	Amu Darya Amu Darya The Amu Darya is the longest river in Central Asia. Its name is sometimes represented in a single word, Amudarya .Amu is said to have come from the city of Amul, now known as T?rkmenabat....	2,620	1,628	534,739	1,400	Aral Sea Aral Sea The Aral Sea is a landlocked endorheic basin in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south....	Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan , is a Landlocked_country#Doubly_landlocked_country country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union.... , Turkmenistan Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a Turkic peoples country in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic .... , Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and People's Republic of China to the east.... , Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
35.	Japurá Japurá River The Japur? River or Caquet? River is a river about long rising as the Caquet? River in the Andes in the Southwest of Colombia. It flows southeast into Brazil, where it is called the Japur?.... (Rio Yapurá)	2,615*	1,625*	242,259	6,000	Amazon	Brazil, Colombia
36.	Nelson Nelson River The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canada province of Manitoba. Its full length is 2575 km , it has mean discharge of 2370 m?/s , and has a drainage basin of 982900 km? , of which 180000 km? is in the United States.... - Saskatchewan Saskatchewan River The Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada, approximately 550 km long, flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to drain into Lake Winnipeg....	2,570	1,597	1,093,000	2,575	Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Hudson Bay is a large , relatively shallow body of water in northeastern Canada. It is approximately 850 miles long and 650 miles wide. It drains a very large area that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, and the southeastern area of Nunavut...	Canada, United States
37.	Paraguay (Rio Paraguay)	2,549	1,584	900,000	4,300	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 ....	Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina
38.	Kolyma Kolyma River The Kolyma River is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia....	2,513	1,562	644,000	3,800	East Siberian Sea East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape in the North, the coast of Siberia in the South, the New Siberian Islands in the West and Cape Billings, close to Gytkhelen, Chukotka, and Wrangel Island in the East....	Russia
39.	Ganges	2,510	1,560	907,000	12,037	Brahmaputra, 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....	India, Bangladesh, Nepal
40.	Pilcomayo	2,500	1,553	270,000		Paraguay Paraguay River The Paraguay River is a major river in south central South America, running through Brazil and Paraguay and running close to the border between Brazil and Bolivia as well as being the border between Paraguay and Argentina....	Paraguay Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.... , Argentina, Bolivia
41.	Upper Ob Ob River Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....	2,490	1,547			Ob Ob River Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....	Russia
42.	Ishim Ishim River Ishim River is a river running through Kazakhstan and Russia. Its length is 2,450 km , average discharge is 56,3 m?/s . It is a left tributary of the Irtysh River....	2,450	1,522	177,000	56	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....	Kazakhstan, Russia
43.	Juruá Jurua The Juru? River is a southern tributary river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses....	2,410	1,498	200,000	6,000	Amazon	Peru, Brazil
44.	Ural Ural River The Ural , known as Yaik before 1775, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan. It arises in the southern Ural Mountains and ends at the Caspian Sea....	2,428	1,509	237,000	475	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 ....	Russia, Kazakhstan
45.	Arkansas Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S....	2,348	1,459	505,000 (435,122)	1,066	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....	United States
46.	Ubangi Ubangi River The Ubangi River, also spelled Oubangi, is a major tributary of the Congo River in Central Africa. It is considered to begin at the junction of the Mbomou River and Uele Rivers, flows west for about 350 km, then bends to the southwest, passes through Bangui, then flows south for another 500 km to the Congo.... - Uele Uele River The Uele River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a tributary of the Ubangi River, which in turn flows into the Congo River.The Uele is the 46th longest river in the world. It is the fifth longest in Africa....	2,300	1,429		4,003	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 ....	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic
47.	Olenyok Olenyok River The Olenyok River is a major river in northern Siberian Russia. It is 2,292 km long, of which around 1,000 km is navigable. Average water discharge is 1210 m3/s....	2,292	1,424	219,000	1,210	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....	Russia
48.	Dnieper Dnieper River The Dnieper River , is one of the major rivers in Europe that flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea. Its total length is , of which lie within Russia, within Belarus, and within Ukraine....	2,287	1,421	516,300	1,670	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....	Russia, Belarus Belarus Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north.... , Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
49.	Aldan Aldan River The Aldan River is the second-longest tributary of the Lena River in eastern Siberia. The river is 2,273 km long, of which around 1,600 km is navigable....	2,273	1,412	729,000	5,060	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....	Russia
50.	Negro	2,250	1,450	720,114	26,700	Amazon	Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia
51.	Columbia 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....	2,250 (1,953)	1,450 (1,214)	415,211	7500	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....	United States, Canada
52.	Colorado Colorado River The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.... (western U.S.)	2,333	1,450	390,000	1,200	Gulf of California Gulf of California The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexico mainland. It is bordered by the States of Mexico of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa....	United States, Mexico
53.	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....	2,200	1,376	437,000	13,600	South China Sea	P.R. China (98.5%), Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east.... (1.5%)
54.	Red Red River (Mississippi watershed) The Red River is one of Red River. It rises in two branches in the Texas Panhandle and flows east forming the border between Texas and Oklahoma, and briefly between Texas and Arkansas....	2,188	1,360	78,592	875	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....	United States
55.	Ayeyarwady 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 .... (Irrawaddy)	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....	Myanmar
56.	Kasai Kasai River The Kasai River is a tributary of the Congo River, located in central Africa. The river begins in Angola and serves as the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , then flows into the DRC, where it joins the Congo northeast of Kinshasa....	2,153	1,338	880,200	10,000	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 ....	Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.... , Democratic Republic of the Congo
57.	Ohio Ohio River The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles long and is located in the eastern United States.... - Allegheny Allegheny River The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River; it is located in the Eastern United States. The Allegheny River joins with the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River at the "Point State Park#History" of Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....	2,102	1,306	490,603	7,957	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....	United States
58.	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....	2,101	1,306	880,000	30,000	Atlantic Ocean	Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana
59.	Tarim Tarim River The Tarim River is the principal river of the Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.Formed from the union of the Aksu River and Yarkand River, it flows in an eastward direction around the Taklamakan Desert....	2,100	1,305	557,000		Lop Nur Lop Nur Lop Nur is a group of small, now seasonal salt lake sand marshes between the Taklamakan Desert and Kuruktag deserts in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China....	P. R. China
60.	Xingu Xingu River The Xingu River is a 900-mile long, river in northeast Brazil; it is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River.There was little known about the Xingu River, until it was explored in 1887 by Karl von den Steinen from Cuiab?....	2,100	1,305			Amazon	Brazil
61.	Orange Orange River The Orange River , Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean....	2,092	1,300			Atlantic Ocean	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa.... , Namibia Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south.... , Botswana Botswana The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966.... , Lesotho Lesotho Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave ? entirely surrounded by the South Africa. Formerly Basutoland, it is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations....
62.	Northern Salado Salado River The Salado River is a river that crosses several provinces of Argentina of Argentina, flowing 1,500 kilometres from its source in the Salta Province to end in the Paran? River, in the Santa Fe Province....	2,010	1,249			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 ....	Argentina
63.	Vitim Vitim River Vitim River is a major tributary of the Lena River. With its Source east of Lake Baikal, the Vitim flows 1,978 km north through the Transbaykalian Mountains and the town of Bodaybo....	1,978	1,229			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....	Russia
64.	Tigris Tigris The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq....	1,950	1,212			Shatt al-Arab	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe.... , Iraq Iraq Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.... , Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north.... , Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
65.	Songhua Songhua River The Songhua River is a river in Northeast China, and is the largest tributary of the Amur , flowing about 1,927 km from Changbai Mountains through the Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces....	1,927	1,197			Amur	P. R. China
66.	Tapajós Tapajós The Tapaj?s, a Brazil river running through a humid and hot valley, pours into the Amazon River 500 miles above Par? and is about 1200 miles long....	1,900	1,181			Amazon	Brazil
67.	Don	1,870	1,162	425,600	935	Sea of Azov Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov is the world's shallowest sea, linked by the Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula....	Russia
68.	Stony Tunguska Stony Tunguska The Podkamennaya Tunguska is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia; it is a right tributary of the Yenisei River and has a length of 1865 km. The name of the river comes from the fact that it flows under pebble fields without open water....	1,865	1,159	240,000		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....	Russia
69.	Pechora Pechora River Pechora is a major river in European Russia . It is 1,809 km long.The river rises in the Ural Mountains in the south-eastern corner of the Komi Republic, and flows north or north-west through Yaksha, Komi Republic, Ust-Ilych, Troitsko-Pechorsk, Vuktyl, Pechora, and Naryan-Mar before entering the Pechora Bay inlet of the Pechora Sea...	1,809	1,124	322,000		Barents Sea Barents Sea The Barents Sea is a part of the Arctic Ocean located north of Norway and Russia. It is a rather deep Continental shelf sea , bordered by the shelf edge towards the Norwegian Sea in the west, the island of Svalbard in the northwest, and the islands of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya in the northeast and east....	Russia
70.	Kama Kama River Kama is a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga River and the largest one in discharge; in fact, it is larger than the Volga before junction....	1,805	1,122	507,000		Volga 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....	Russia
71.	Limpopo Limpopo River The Limpopo River rises in central southern Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean. It is around long, with a drainage basin in size....	1,800	1,118	413,000		Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....	Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.... , Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east.... , South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa.... , Botswana Botswana The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966....
72.	Guaporé Guaporé Guapor? may refer to:Guapor? River in BrazilGuapor?, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil*The former name of Rond?nia... (Itenez)	1,749	1,087			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....	Brazil, Bolivia
73.	Indigirka Indigirka River Indigirka River is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia. It is 1,726 km in length. The area of its drainage basin is 360,000 km?. The river flows into the Kolyma Bay, East Siberian Sea....	1,726	1,072	360,400	1,810	East Siberian Sea East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape in the North, the coast of Siberia in the South, the New Siberian Islands in the West and Cape Billings, close to Gytkhelen, Chukotka, and Wrangel Island in the East....	Russia
74.	Snake Snake River The Snake River is a major tributary of the Columbia River in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The river's length is , its drainage basin drains , and the average discharge at its mouth is ....	1,670	1,038	279,719	1,611	Columbia 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....	United States
75.	Senegal Sénégal River The S?n?gal River is a 1790 km long river in West Africa, that forms the border between Senegal and Mauritania. It was called Bambotus by Pliny the Elder and Nias by Claudius Ptolemy....	1,641	1,020	419,659		Atlantic Ocean	Senegal Senegal Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south.... , Mali Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west.... , Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest....
76.	Uruguay Uruguay River The Uruguay River is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and makes boundary with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of the Mesopotamia, Argentina from the other two countries....	1,610	1,000	370,000		Atlantic Ocean	Uruguay Uruguay Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area.... , Argentina, Brazil
77.	Blue Nile Blue Nile The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Sometimes in Ethiopia the river?especially the upper reaches?is called the Abbai....	1,600	994			Nile Nile The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast.... , Sudan Sudan Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
77.	Churchill Churchill River (Hudson Bay) The Churchill River is a major river in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is 1,609 km long. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691....	1,600	994			Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Hudson Bay is a large , relatively shallow body of water in northeastern Canada. It is approximately 850 miles long and 650 miles wide. It drains a very large area that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, and the southeastern area of Nunavut...	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
77.	Khatanga Khatanga River The Khatanga River is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. It begins at the confluence of the rivers Kotuy River and Kheta River. The Khatanga River is 227 km long; the area of its drainage basin is 364,000 km?....	1,600	994			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....	Russia
77.	Okavango Okavango River The Okavango River is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km ....	1,600	994			Okavango Delta Okavango Delta The Okavango Delta , in Botswana, is the world's largest inland River delta.The area was once part of Lake Makgadikgadi, an ancient lake that dried up some 10,000 years ago....	Namibia Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south.... , Angola Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.... , Botswana Botswana The Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland Protectorate, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 September 1966....
77.	Volta Volta River The Volta is a river in western Africa that drains into the Gulf of Guinea. It is divided into the Black Volta, the White Volta and the Red Volta....	1,600	994			Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Guinea The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian is in the gulf. According to the International Hydrographic Organization, the Gulf's oceanic border is the rhumb line that runs from Cape Palmas in Liberia to Cape Lopez in Gabon ....	Ghana Ghana The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders C?te d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.... , Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Burkina Faso , also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the south east, Togo and Ghana to the south, and C?te d'Ivoire to the south west.... , Togo Togo Togo is a narrow country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lom? is located.... , Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire , formerly Ivory Coast, officially the , is a country in West Africa. The government officially discourages the use of the name Ivory Coast in English, preferring the French name to be used in all languages .... , Benin Benin Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north; its short coastline to the south leads to the Bight of Benin....
82.	Beni Beni River The Beni River is a river in the north of Bolivia.It rises north of La Paz and flows northeast through the pampas. One of the tributary rivers is Tuichi River in the Madidi National Park....	1,599	994			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....	Bolivia
83.	Platte Platte River The Platte River is an approximately . long river in the Western United States. It is a tributary to the Missouri River, which in turn is a tributary to the Mississippi River....	1,594	990			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....	United States
84.	Tobol Tobol River Tobol is a river in Kazakhstan and Kurgan Oblast and Tyumen Oblasts in Russia, left tributary of the Irtysh River. The length of the Tobol River is 1591 Kilometre....	1,591	989			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....	Kazakhstan, Russia
85.	Jubba Jubba River The Jubba River is a river in southern Somalia which begins at the border with Ethiopia where the Dawa River and Gebele River rivers meet, and flows directly south to the Indian Ocean, where it empties to the ocean at Goobweyn.... - Shebelle Shebelle River The Shebelle River begins in the Ethiopian Highlands of Ethiopia, and then flows southeast into Somalia towards Mogadishu. Near Mogadishu it turns sharply southwest, where it follows the coast....	1,580*	982*			Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....	Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast.... , Somalia Somalia Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
86.	Içá (Putumayo)	1,575	979			Amazon	Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
87.	Magdalena Magdalena River The Magdalena River , also called Yuma River is the principal river of Colombia, flowing northward about 1,540 kilometres through the western half of the country....	1,550	963			Caribbean Sea Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean situated in the mid-latitudes of the Western Hemisphere, bounded to the south and west by the Americas, with the North Atlantic Ocean proper to the northeast and the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest....	Colombia
88.	Han Han River (Hanshui) The Han River in China was often referred to as H?nshui in antiquity. It is a left tributary of the Yangtze River with a length of 1532 km....	1,532	952			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....	P. R. China
89.	Lomami Lomami River The Lomami River is a major tributary of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The river is approximately 1,500 km long. It flows north, west of and parallel to the upper Congo....	1,500	932			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 ....	Democratic Republic of the Congo
89.	Oka Oka River Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol Oblast, Tula Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Vladimir Oblast and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga....	1,500	932			Volga 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....	Russia
90.	Pecos Pecos River The Pecos River or Rio Pecos, as it is sometimes known in New Mexico, arises near Pecos, New Mexico, United States, and flows for through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas....	1,490	926			Rio Grande Rio Grande For the railroad often known as the Rio Grande, see Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.The Rio Grande River in the United States, known as the R?o Bravo in Mexico, is a river, long, is the fourth longest river system in the United States and serves as a natural boundary along the border between the U.S....	United States
91.	Upper 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....	1,480	920			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....	Russia, Mongolia
92.	Godavari Godavari River This article is about the river Godavari in India. For other uses, see Godavari The Godavari is a river that runs from western to south India and is considered to be one of big river basins in India....	1,465	910			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....	India
93.	Colorado Colorado River (Texas) The Colorado River is the 18th longest river in the United States. and the longest river with both its source and river delta within Texas; however its drainage basin and some of its usually dry tributary do extend into New Mexico.... (Texas)	1,438	894			Gulf of Mexico	United States
94.	Río Grande Río Grande (Bolivia) The R?o Grande in Bolivia rises on the southern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, at . At its source it is known as the R?o Rocha and crosses the Cochabamba valley basin in a westerly direction.... (Guapay)	1,438	894			Ichilo	Bolivia
95.	Belaya Belaya River Belaya River may refer to the following rivers in Russia:Belaya River , a tributary of the Lake Imandra in the Murmansk OblastBelaya River , a tributary of the Kama River in the Republic of Bashkortostan...	1,420	882			Kama Kama River Kama is a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga River and the largest one in discharge; in fact, it is larger than the Volga before junction....	Russia
96.	Cooper Cooper Creek Cooper Creek is one of the most famous and yet least visited rivers in Australia. It is also known as Cooper's Creek or the Barcoo River.... - Barcoo Barcoo River The Barcoo River in western Queensland, Australia rises on the northern slopes of the Warrego Range and unites with the Thomson River, Queensland to form Cooper Creek....	1,420	880			Lake Eyre Lake Eyre Lake Eyre is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia....	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
97.	Marañón	1,415	879			Amazon	Peru
98.	Dniester Dniester The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....	1,411 (1,352)	877 (840)			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....	Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south.... , Moldova Moldova Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
99.	Benue Benue River File:Lagdomap.jpgThe Benue River is the major tributary of the Niger River. The river is approximately 1,400 km long and is almost entirely navigable during the summer months....	1,400	870			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....	Cameroon Cameroon The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.... , Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
99.	Ili Ili River The Ili River is a river in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan .It is 1,439 km long, 815 km of which in Kazakhstan. It takes its beginning in eastern Tian Shan from the Tekes River and Kunges River rivers.... (Yili)	1,400	870			Lake Balkhash Lake Balkhash Lake Balkhash is a lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, the second largest in Central Asia after the Aral Sea. It is a Endorheic that is part of the endorheic basin that includes the Caspian Sea and Aral seas....	P. R. China, Kazakhstan
99.	Warburton - Georgina Georgina River The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in western Queensland that flow in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre....	1,400	870			Lake Eyre Lake Eyre Lake Eyre is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia....	Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
102.	Sutlej Sutlej The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroad region of Punjab region in northern India and Pakistan....	1,372	852			Chenab Chenab River The Chenab River is formed by the confluence of the Chandra River and Bhaga River rivers at Tandi located in the upper Himalayas in the Lahul and Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh, India....	China, India, Pakistan
103.	Yamuna Yamuna The Yamuna is a major tributary river of the Ganges in northern India. With a total length of around , it is the largest tributary of the Ganges....	1,370	851			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....	India
103.	Vyatka Vyatka River The Vyatka River is a river in Kirov Oblast and the Tatarstan in Russia, right tributary of the Kama River. It is 1,314 km in length. The area of its Drainage basin is 129,000 km?....	1,370	851			Kama Kama River Kama is a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga River and the largest one in discharge; in fact, it is larger than the Volga before junction....	Russia
105.	Fraser Fraser River The Fraser River is the longest river in British Columbia, Canada, rising near Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 km , into the Pacific Ocean at the city of Vancouver, British Columbia....	1,368	850		3,475	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....	Canada
106.	Kura Kura River Kura is a river in the Caucasus Mountains. Starting in north-eastern Turkey , it flows through Turkey to Georgia , then to Azerbaijan, where it receives the Aras River as a right tributary, and enters the Caspian Sea....	1,364	848			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 ....	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus, located partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Western Asia.... , Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest.... , Armenia Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.... , Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe.... , Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
107.	Grande Grande River The Grande River is in south-central Brazil. It rises in the Mantiqueira Mountains in the state of Minas Gerais and descends inland, west-northwestward....	1,360	845			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 ....	Brazil
108.	Brazos Brazos River The Brazos River, called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers is the 11th longest river in the United States at 2060 km from its source of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico...	1,352	840			Gulf of Mexico	United States
109.	Cauca River Cauca River The Cauca River is a river in Colombia that lies between the Cordillera Occidental, Colombia and Cordillera Central, Colombia cordilleras. Born in southwestern Colombia near the city of Popay?n, it joins the Magdalena River just south of Santa Cruz de Mompox....	1,350	839			Magdalena River Magdalena River The Magdalena River , also called Yuma River is the principal river of Colombia, flowing northward about 1,540 kilometres through the western half of the country....	Colombia
110.	Liao Liao River File:Liaorivermap.pngThe Liao He is the principal river in southern Manchuria . The province of Liaoning and the Liaodong Peninsula derive their name from the river....	1,345	836			Bo Hai	P. R. China
111.	Yalong Yalong River The Yalong River, also called Ya-lung River is an 822 mile long river in the Sichuan province of southern China. It flows into the Yangtze River along the border with Yunnan....	1,323	822			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....	P. R. China
112.	Iguaçu	1,320	820			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 ....	Brazil, Argentina
112.	Olyokma Olyokma River The Olyokma River is a tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia. The river is approximately 1,320 km long.The Olyokma rises in the south of the Yablonovy Mountains, west of Mogocha....	1,320	820			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....	Russia
112.	Rhine Rhine File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....	1,320	820	198,735	2,330	North Sea North Sea The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.... , France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France.... , Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland.... , Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east.... , Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.... , Belgium Belgium * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium.... , Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany.... , Liechtenstein Liechtenstein The Principality of Liechtenstein is a Landlocked country#Doubly landlocked country alpine country microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and by Austria to the east.... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
113.	Northern Dvina Northern Dvina The Northern Dvina is a river in Northern Russia flowing through the Vologda Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast into the Dvina Bay of the White Sea.... - Sukhona Sukhona River Sukhona is a river in the European part of Russia, tributary to the Northern Dvina. Its length is 558 Kilometre. The area of its basin is 50,300 km?....	1,302	809	357,052	3,332	White Sea White Sea The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast....	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
114.	Krishna	1,300	808			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....	India
114.	Iriri Iriri River The Iriri River is a tributary of the Xingu River in Brazil, in the state of Par?. It is 1,300 km long making it the 115th longest river in the world and the 15th longest in the Amazon Basin....	1,300	808			Xingu Xingu River The Xingu River is a 900-mile long, river in northeast Brazil; it is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River.There was little known about the Xingu River, until it was explored in 1887 by Karl von den Steinen from Cuiab?....	Brazil
115.	Narmada Narmada River The Narmada [Devanagri: ?????? Gujarati: ?????? or Nerbudda ] is a river in central India and the fifth largest river in the Indian subcontinent....	1,289	801			Arabian Sea Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....	India
116.	Ottawa Ottawa River The Ottawa River is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It defines for most of its length the border between these two provinces....	1,271	790			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....	Canada
117.	Zeya Zeya River Zeya River , 1,242 km long, is a southern tributary of the Amur River. It rises in the Tokiysky Stanovik mountain ridge, a part of the Stanovoy Range....	1,242	772			Amur	Russia
118.	Juruena Juruena River The Juruena River is a river in west-central Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso. The river is the site of the Juruena National Park as well as the Salto Augusto Falls....	1,240	771			Tapajós Tapajós The Tapaj?s, a Brazil river running through a humid and hot valley, pours into the Amazon River 500 miles above Par? and is about 1200 miles long....	Brazil
119.	Upper 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....	1,236	768			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....	United States
120.	Athabasca Athabasca River The Athabasca River originates from the Columbia Glacier of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. The impressive and scenic Athabasca Falls is located upstream about from the Jasper, Alberta....	1,231	765			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....	Canada
121.	Elbe Elbe The River Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in the Krkonose Mountains of northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Germany and flowing into the North Sea.... - Vltava Vltava The Vltava is the longest river in the Czech Republic, running north from its source in Bohemian Forest through Cesk? Krumlov, Cesk? Budejovice, and Prague , merging with the Elbe at Meln?k....	1,231	765	148,268	711	North Sea North Sea The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.... , Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
122.	Canadian Canadian River The Canadian River is the largest tributary of the Arkansas River. It is about long, starting in Colorado and traveling through New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and most of Oklahoma....	1,223	760			Arkansas Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S....	United States
123.	North Saskatchewan North Saskatchewan River The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river flowing east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. It is one of two major rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River....	1,220	758			Saskatchewan Saskatchewan River The Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada, approximately 550 km long, flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to drain into Lake Winnipeg....	Canada
124.	Vaal Vaal River The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Clarens, Free State in the Free State at a source known as the Ash River....	1,210	752			Orange Orange River The Orange River , Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean....	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
125.	Shire Shire River The Shire is a river in Malawi and Mozambique. It is the outlet of Lake Malawi and flows into the Zambezi. Its length is 402 km; including Lake Malawi and the Ruhuhu River, its headstream, it has a length of about 1200 km....	1,200	746			Zambezi Zambezi The Zambezi is the List of rivers by length river in Africa, and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its drainage basin is 1,390,000 km? , slightly less than half that of the Nile....	Mozambique Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.... , Malawi Malawi The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west....
126.	Nen Nen River File:LocationNen.pngNen River, also Nonni }}; Manchu language: Non ula) is a river in Northeast China. It is 1370 kilometres in length, and is the longest tributary of the Songhua River in Heilongjiang province, and join it near Da'an.... (Nonni)	1,190	739			Songhua Songhua River The Songhua River is a river in Northeast China, and is the largest tributary of the Amur , flowing about 1,927 km from Changbai Mountains through the Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces....	P. R. China
127.	Green Green River (Utah) The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The Green River itself is 730 mi long. The Green River Basin covers parts of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado....	1,175	730			Colorado Colorado River The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.... (western U.S.)	United States
128.	Milk Milk River (Montana-Alberta) The Milk River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 729 mi long in the U.S. state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta.It is formed in northwestern Montana, in Glacier County, Montana 21 mi N of Browning, Montana by the confluence of the South and Middle forks....	1,173	729			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....	United States, Canada
131.	Chindwin Chindwin River The Chindwin River is a river in Burma , and the largest tributary of the country's chief river the Ayeyarwady River . It flows entirely within Burma and is known as Ning-thi to the Meitei people....	1,158	720			Ayeyarwady 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 ....	Myanmar
132.	Sankuru Sankuru River Sankuru River is a major river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its approximate length of 1230 km makes it the longest tributary of Kasai River....	1,150	715			Kasai Kasai River The Kasai River is a tributary of the Congo River, located in central Africa. The river begins in Angola and serves as the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , then flows into the DRC, where it joins the Congo northeast of Kinshasa....	Democratic Republic of the Congo
133.	James (Dakotas) James River (Dakotas) The James River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 710 mi long, in the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota. The river provides the main drainage of the flat lowland area of the Dakotas between the two plateau regions known as the Coteau du Missouri and the Coteau des Prairies....	1,143	710			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....	United States
133.	Kapuas Kapuas River The Kapuas River is located in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. At approximately 1,143 km, it is the longest river in Indonesia, and is the major river of the western portion of Borneo....	1,143	710			South China Sea	Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
135.	Desna Desna River Desna is a river in Russia and Ukraine, left tributary of the Dnieper. The word means "right hand" in the Old East Slavic language. Its length is 1,130 km , and its drainage basin covers 88,900 km?....	1,130	702	88,900	360	Dnieper	Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia.... , Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
135.	Helmand Helmand River The Helmand River is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primarily drainage basin for the Endorheic basin Sistan Basin.The Helmand river stretches for 1,150 km ....	1,130	702			Hamun-i-Helmand Hamun-i-Helmand Hamun-e Helmand is a marshy lake located in southeast Iran near the Afghanistan border and fed by the Helmand River. Together with Iran's Hamun-e Puzak and Hamun-e Saber rivers, it forms the extended wetlands of Seistan on the large border region in southeastern Iran and soutwestern Afghanistan....	Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia.... , Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
135.	Madre de Dios Madre de Dios River The Madre de Dios River, homonymous to the Peruvian Madre de Dios region it runs through, then becomes the Beni River in Bolivia and then turns northward into Brazil, where it is called the Madeira River....	1,130	702			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....	Peru, Bolivia
135.	Tietê Tietê River The Tiet? River is a river in the Brazilian States of Brazil of S?o Paulo . Although some parts are highly polluted , the Tiet? river runs for 700 miles before joining the Paran? River, making it around the 130th longest river in the world....	1,130	702			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 ....	Brazil
135.	Vychegda Vychegda River Vychegda is a river in the European part of Russia, tributary to the Northern Dvina. Its length is about 1,100 km. Its source is approx. 310km west of the northern Ural Mountains....	1,130	702			Northern Dvina Northern Dvina The Northern Dvina is a river in Northern Russia flowing through the Vologda Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast into the Dvina Bay of the White Sea....	Russia
140.	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	77,700		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....	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands .... , Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
141.	Cimarron Cimarron River The Cimarron River extends 698 miles across New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas. The headwaters flow from Johnson Mesa west of Folsom, New Mexico in northeastern New Mexico....	1,123	698			Arkansas Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the U.S....	United States
142.	Anadyr Anadyr River Anadyr is a river in the extreme northeast of Siberia, Russia.The river rises in the Anadyr Range, about 67?N latitude and 173?E longitude, flows through Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, at first southwest and then east, and enters the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea after a course of about 800 kilometres ....	1,120	696			Gulf of Anadyr Gulf of Anadyr The Gulf of Anadyr, or Anadyr Bay , is a Headlands and bays in the extreme northeast of Siberia, Russia....	Russia
143.	Jialing River Jialing River The Jialing River is a tributary of the Yangtze River with its source in Gansu province. It gets its name from its crossing the Jialing Vale in Feng County of Shaanxi....	1,119	695			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....	P. R. China
144.	Liard Liard River The Liard River flows through the Yukon Territory, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows 1,115 km southeast through British Columbia, marking the northern end of the Rocky Mountains and then curving northeast back into the Yukon and Northw...	1,115	693			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....	Canada
145.	White White River (Arkansas) The White River is a 722 mile long river that flows through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Missouri....	1,102	685			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....	United States
146.	Huallaga Huallaga River The Huallaga River is a tributary of the Mara??n River, part of the Amazon Basin. Old names for this river include Guallaga and Rio de los Motilones....	1,100	684			Marañón	Peru
146.	Kwango Kwango River Kwango is a 1100 km long river in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It originates in the highlands of central Angola and flows generally northwards, then it makes a border between these two countries....	1,100	684	263,500	2,700	Kasai	Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo
148.	Gambia Gambia River The Gambia River is a major river in Africa, running 1,130 km from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul....	1,094	680			Atlantic Ocean	The Gambia The Gambia The Gambia commonly known as Gambia, is a country in West Africa. The Gambia is the smallest country in Africa, enclave by Senegal, and has a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west.... , Senegal Senegal Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south.... , Guinea Guinea Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 ....
149.	Chenab Chenab River The Chenab River is formed by the confluence of the Chandra River and Bhaga River rivers at Tandi located in the upper Himalayas in the Lahul and Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh, India....	1,086	675			Indus Indus River File:Indian subcontinent CIA.pngThe Indus River is the longest river in Pakistan and the twenty-first largest river in the world, in terms of annual flow, on the Indian Subcontinent....	India, Pakistan
150.	Yellowstone Yellowstone River The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately , in the western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, the river and its tributaries drain a wide area stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of the Yellowstone National Park across the mountains and Great Plains of southe...	1,080	671			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....	United States
151.	Chu River Chu River "Chui River" redirects here. For the South American Chu? or Chuy River, on the Brazil-Uruguay border and Brazil's southernmost point, see Chu? River....	1067	663	62,500		none	Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and People's Republic of China to the east.... , Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....
152.	Donets Seversky Donets The river Seversky Donets , tributary the Don River, Russia. It originates in Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine and then into Russia again to join the Don River, Russia in the Rostov Oblast below Konstantinovsk, about 100 km from the Sea of Azov....	1,078 (1,053)	670 (654)			Don	Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south.... , Russia
153.	Bermejo Bermejo River The Bermejo River is a river in South America that travels a total of 1450 km from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in Argentina. The river is generally called Bermejo in spite of its different names along its way, but it also has its own Indigenous peoples of the Americasn names; in Wich? it is called Teuco, and in guaran? language it...	1,050	652			Paraguay Paraguay River The Paraguay River is a major river in south central South America, running through Brazil and Paraguay and running close to the border between Brazil and Bolivia as well as being the border between Paraguay and Argentina....	Argentina, Bolivia
153.	Fly Fly River The Fly at , is the second longest river, after the Sepik, in Papua New Guinea. It rises in the Star Mountains, and crosses the south-western lowlands before flowing into the Gulf of Papua in a large River delta....	1,050	652			Gulf of Papua Gulf of Papua The Gulf of Papua is a 400 kilometer wide region on the south shore of New Guinea. Some of New Guinea's largest rivers, such as the Fly River, Turama River, Kikori River and Purari River, flow into the gulf, making it a large delta....	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands .... , Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
153.	Guaviare Guaviare River The Guaviare is a tributary of the Orinoco located in Colombia.The Guaviare has its source in two other rivers, the Ariari River and the Guayabero River, which in turn have their own sources in the eastern part of the Andes....	1,050	652			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....	Colombia
153.	Kuskokwim Kuskokwim River The Kuskokwim River is the 9th-largest river in the United States of America, ranked by average discharge volume at its mouth; 17th. largest by basin drainage area....	1,050	652			Bering Sea Bering Sea The Bering Sea is a body of water in the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelf....	United States
157.	Tennessee Tennessee River The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....	1,049	652			Ohio Ohio River The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles long and is located in the eastern United States....	United States
158.	Daugava Daugava The Daugava or Western Dvina is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, Russia, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, draining into the Gulf of Riga in Latvia, an arm of the Baltic Sea....	1,020	634			Gulf of Riga Gulf of Riga The Gulf of Riga, or Bay of Riga, is a Headlands and bays of the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Estonia.The area of the Gulf of Riga is about 18,000 km?....	Latvia Latvia Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language.... , Belarus Belarus Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north.... , Russia
159.	Gila Gila River The Gila River The Gila River has its source in western New Mexico, in Sierra County, New Mexico on the western slopes of Continental Divide in the Black Range....	1,015	631			Colorado Colorado River The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.... (western U.S.)	United States
160.	Vistula Vistula The Vistula , is the longest river in Poland at 1,047 km in length. It drains an area of 194,424 km? , of which 168,699 km? lies within Poland ....	1,014	630			Baltic Sea Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
161.	Loire Loire River The Loire is the longest river in France. With a length of , it drains an area of , which represents more than a fifth of France's land area....	1,012	629			Atlantic Ocean	France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
162.	Essequibo Essequibo River The Essequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco River and Amazon River. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil-Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north for 1000 km through forest and savanna into the Atlantic Ocean....	1,010	628			Atlantic Ocean	Guyana Guyana Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....
162.	Khoper	1,010	628			Don	Russia
164.	Tagus Tagus The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon.... (Tajo/Tejo)	1,006	625			Atlantic Ocean	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably.... , Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
165.	Colorado Colorado River (Argentina) The Colorado River is a river in the south of Argentina. It has its sources on the eastern slopes of the Andes in the latitude of the Chilean volcano Tinguiririca , and pursues a general east-southeast course to the Atlantic Ocean, where it discharges through several channels of a river delta of the Uni?n Bay extending from latitude 39?... (Argentina)	1,000	620			Atlantic Ocean	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....

River systems that may have existed in the past

Amazon-Congo

The Amazon basin

Amazon Basin

The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The basin is located mainly in Brazil, but also stretches into Peru and several other countries....
formerly drained westwards into the 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....
, until the Andes

Andes

The Andes form the world's longest exposed mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7,000 km long, 200-700 km wide , and of an average height of about 4,000 m ....
rose and reversed the drainage.

The 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 ....
basin is completely surrounded by high land, except for its long narrow exit valley past Kinshasa

Kinshasa

Kinshasa is the Capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is also known as Congo Kinshasa. The city is located on the Congo River....
, including waterfall

Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
s 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

Rejuvenation (river)

A river is said to be rejuvenated when the base level that it is flowing down to is lowered. This can happen by uplift of land, or by a sea or lake that it is flowing into becoming lower....
by much of its lower course being removed. In Permian

Permian

The PermianThe term "Permian" was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil; Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his "Permian system" after the ancient kingdom...
and early Triassic

Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period that extends from about 251 to 199 annum . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic....
times Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
and South America

South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
were close against each other with no sea between (see continental drift

Continental drift

Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912....
and plate tectonics

Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift, developed during the first decades of the 20th century by Alfred Wegener, and seafloor spreading, understood during the 1960s....
), and the Congo probably drained into the Amazon basin and eventually into the Pacific. Including part of its course that was completely lost when the South Atlantic opened, its total course may have been anything up to approximately 12,000 km (7,500 miles) long.

West Siberian Glacial Lake drainage

This river would have been about 10,000 km (6,000 miles) long, in the last Ice Age

Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
. See West Siberian Glacial Lake

West Siberian Glacial Lake

The West Siberian Glacial Lake, also known as West Siberian Lake, or Mansiyskoe Lake , was a periglacial lake formed when the Arctic Ocean outlets for each of the Ob River and Yenisei River rivers were blocked by the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet during the Weichselian Glaciation, approximately 80,000 years ago....
. Its longest headwater was the 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....
river of Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
: it drained through ice-dammed lakes and the Aral Sea

Aral Sea

The Aral Sea is a landlocked endorheic basin in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south....
and the 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 ....
to the 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 length

Definition of length

List of rivers longer than 1000 km

River systems that may have existed in the past

Amazon-Congo

West Siberian Glacial Lake drainage

See also