World’s Longest Rivers - List of Longest Rivers in the World

Here is a list of the top 10 longest rivers in the world. As you can see, they often travel through more than one country, and most of the continents of the world are represented in the table below.

Do you know which is the longest river in the world? The River Nile is the longest river that is 6650 kilometres in length. It empties into the Mediterranean Sea and crosses both the Equator and Tropic Of Cancer. 


Longest Rivers of The World

The table given below enlists the top 10 longest rivers in the world along with the length of each river, drainage area, outflow, their source and the countries they touch or flow through.

Rank

River

Length

(km2)

Length

(miles)

Drainage area

Average discharge

Outflow

Countries in the drainage basin

1.

Nile–White Nile–KageraNyabarongoMwogoRukarara

6,650

4,130

32,54,555

2,800

Mediterranean

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan

2.

Amazon–Ucayali–Tambo–EneMantaro

6,400

3,976

70,00,000

209,000

Atlantic Ocean

Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana

3.

Yangtze–JinshaTongtianDangqu

6,300

3,917

18,00,000

30,166

East China Sea

China

4.

Mississippi–Missouri–Jefferson–Beaverhead–Red Rock–Hell Roaring

6,275

3,902

29,80,000

16,792

Gulf of Mexico

 

United States (98.5%), Canada (1.5%)

5.

Yenisei–Angara–SelengeIder

5,539

3,445

25,80,000

18,050

Kara sea

Russia (97%), Mongolia (2.9%)

6.

Yellow River

5,464

3,395

745,000

2,571

Bohai sea

China

7.

Ob–Irtysh

5,410

3,364

29,90,000

12,475

Gulf of ob

Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia

8.

Río de la Plata–Paraná–Rio Grande

4,880

3,030

25,82,672

22,000

Río de la Plata

Brazil (46.7%), Argentina (27.7%), Paraguay (13.5%), Bolivia (8.3%), Uruguay (3.8%)

9.

Congo–Chambeshi

4,700

2,922

36,80,000

41,800

Atlantic ocean

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda

10.

Amur–ArgunKherlen

4,444

2,763

18,55,000

11,400

Sea of Okhotsk

Russia, China, Mongolia

 

Important Rivers of the World – Facts

  • The Congo River (former name – Zaire river) crosses the Equator twice.
  • The river Limpopo crosses the Tropic of Capricorn twice.
  • The river River Hwang He or the Yellow River is known as China’s sorrow.
  • The river Nile begins south of the Equator, crosses the Tropic of Cancer and then empties into the sea.
  • The river Amazon throughout its entire length does not have any bridges across it.
  • Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar are the countries which do not have any rivers flowing through them.
  • River Danube flows through 4 capital cities, Belgrade (Serbia),  Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Vienna (Austria). Also, it flows through ten countries namely Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia,  Slovakia and Ukraine.

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