Rivers of the World

The world's great rivers by continent, from longest to shortest, with the countries they flow through. Books give slightly different lengths, because it's hard to say exactly where a river starts.

North America

• Missouri: 3,767 km (United States)
• Mississippi: 3,730 km (United States)
• Yukon: 3,190 km (Canada, United States)
• Rio Grande: 3,051 km (United States, Mexico)
• Colorado: 2,330 km (United States, Mexico)
• Mackenzie: 1,738 km (Canada)
• St. Lawrence: 1,197 km (Canada, United States)

South America

• Amazon: 6,400 km (Peru, Colombia, Brazil)
• Paraná: 4,880 km (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
• São Francisco: 2,830 km (Brazil)
• Orinoco: 2,140 km (Venezuela, Colombia)
• Magdalena: 1,528 km (Colombia)

Europe

• Volga: 3,530 km (Russia)
• Danube: 2,850 km (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine)
• Dnieper: 2,201 km (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine)
• Rhine: 1,230 km (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands)
• Elbe: 1,094 km (Czechia, Germany)
• Tagus: 1,007 km (Spain, Portugal)
• Loire: 1,006 km (France)
• Seine: 777 km (France)
• Po: 652 km (Italy)
• Thames: 346 km (United Kingdom)

Africa

• Nile: 6,650 km (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda)
• Congo: 4,700 km (Congo - Kinshasa, Congo - Brazzaville)
• Niger: 4,180 km (Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, Nigeria)
• Zambezi: 2,574 km (Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique)
• Orange: 2,200 km (Lesotho, South Africa, Namibia)
• Limpopo: 1,750 km (South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique)

Asia

• Yangtze: 6,300 km (China)
• Yellow River: 5,464 km (China)
• Lena: 4,400 km (Russia)
• Mekong: 4,350 km (China, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam)
• Ob: 3,650 km (Russia)
• Yenisei: 3,487 km (Russia, Mongolia)
• Indus: 3,180 km (China, India, Pakistan)
• Brahmaputra: 2,900 km (China, India, Bangladesh)
• Amur: 2,824 km (Russia, China)
• Euphrates: 2,800 km (Türkiye, Syria, Iraq)
• Ganges: 2,525 km (India, Bangladesh)
• Irrawaddy: 2,170 km (Myanmar (Burma))
• Tigris: 1,900 km (Türkiye, Syria, Iraq)
• Godavari: 1,465 km (India)
• Krishna: 1,400 km (India)
• Yamuna: 1,376 km (India)
• Narmada: 1,312 km (India)

Oceania

• Murray: 2,508 km (Australia)
• Darling: 1,472 km (Australia)
• Sepik: 1,126 km (Papua New Guinea)
• Waikato: 425 km (New Zealand)

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