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What is the largest river in the world? The biggest river in the world, measured by the amount of water that flows down it, is the Amazon. On average 120,000 cubic metres (about 20 swimming pools' worth) of water flows out of its mouth every second. firstly, the term LARGEST is quite wrong. You can ask which is the longest or biggest river.
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10 Largest Rivers In The World The Orinoco in Venezuela apart from being the fourth largest river of the world is also among the longest rivers of South America. It has a drainage basin of 880,000 square km and an average discharge of 33,000m³/second. It outflows into the Atlantic.
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Top 10 Largest Rivers in the World South America ----- By volume, the Amazon River of South America is the largest river in the world with a total discharge greater than the next ten largest rivers combined. The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometers (2,720,000 sq mi), accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. The mouth coordinates are 0°10′0″S 49°0′0″W﻿ The source coordinates are 15°31′5″S 71°45′55″W
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10 Most Important Rivers in the World The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6, 437 kilometers (4,000 miles) from the Amazon's headwaters high in the Andes mountains of Peru.
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Rivers River Severn | River Thames. The River Nile is the longest river in the world. It measures 6,695 kilometres from its source in Burundi, along the White Nile, to its delta on the Mediterranean Sea. Officially, the shortesr river is the D River, Oregan, USA, which is just 37 metres long. The biggest river in the world, measured by the amount of water that flows down it, is the Amazon. On average 120,000 cubic metres (about 20 swimming pools' worth) of water flows out of its mouth every second.
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- The Amazon River near Lago do Erepecu (north of this image) in 2014. Credit: NASA. The Amazon River is a heck of a big tributary. Besides being one of the LONGEST rivers in the world, it also happens to be the WIDEST. While its estimated length of 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) puts it under the Nile River, that statistic could be amended as some believe it’s even longer than that.
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25 Longest Rivers In The World The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. It is the world's 12th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km (2,703 mi), and it drains an area of 795,000 km2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 475 km3 (114 cu mi) of water annually.
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- By Matt Rosenberg. This following is a list of the ten longest rivers in the world, according to the Times Atlas of the World. 1. Nile River-Africa - 4,160 miles - 6,695 km. 2. Amazon River-South America - 4,049 miles - 6,516 km. 3.y Matt Rosenberg. This following is a list of the ten longest rivers in the world, according to the Times Atlas of the World. 1. Nile River-Africa - 4,160 miles - 6,695 km. 2. Amazon River-South America - 4,049 miles - 6,516 km. 3.
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Top 10 Largest Rivers in the World The river basin has an east-west extent of about 1,180 miles and north-south extent of about 680 miles. Its total basin area is approximately 742,442 square kilometers. 7. Ob River. This is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, and the World’s 7th longest river. This river is 3,395 miles long, with a drainage area of 2,990,000 square kilometers and an average discharge of 12,475 cubic meters’ per-second.
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Washington (state) The Yangtze, 6,300 km long, is the largest river in China, and the third largest in the world, next only to the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. Passing through high mountains and deep valleys, the upper section of the Yangtze River is abundant in water resources.
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Amazon River The Amazon basin is the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi), and accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow.
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10 Largest Rivers In The World This discharge is more than that of the next seven largest rivers, except its tributaries of Rio Negro and Mandeira. Its drainage basin covering an area of 7,050,000 square km is the largest worldwide and equals on fifth of the entire river flow of our world.
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Mississippi River Basin Mississippi River Basin. The Mississippi River is North America's longest and largest river in terms of discharge, and the fifth largest discharge river worldwide, at an average of 17,330 cubic meters per second (811,530 cubic feet per second).
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Major Rivers of Europe Some of the important river islands are – Adakale, Balta, Great war island, Margaret island, Ostrovul, Kozloduy etc. Major rivers of Europe : Ural River. Source – southern Ural Mountains, Russia; Mouth – Caspian sea; Length – 2428 Km; Ural river (along with Ural mountains) marks the boundary between Europe and Asia. Although this river originates in Russian part of Europe but it traverses to Asia along Kazakhstan before falling in Caspian sea.
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Top 10 Largest Rivers in the World Congo is the river in Africa and holds many records of deepest river in the world, Ninth longest river and third largest river in the world. The Congo River has Discharge volume of water is about 41,000 cubic square meters with total drainage basin 3,822,000 square km and outflows in Atlantic Ocean.
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Longest Rivers in the World â Top 10 List These rivers are located in Siberia and together are about 3,364 miles (5,410 km) in length. They form a major basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altay Mountains. The Congo River (also called the Zaire River) is the second largest river in Africa and the eight largest in the world. It is about 2,922 miles (4,700 km) long. It has both the second largest flow and the second larges draining basin in the world, only following the Amazon.
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- The Yangtze is the longest river in China and the third longest in the world. Since 2002, WWF and partners have reconnected more than 40 floodplain lakes with the main stem of the Yangtze River to restore seasonal flows and allow the migration of species, like the finless porpoise, between the lakes and the river.
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Top 10 Largest Rivers in the World The Orinoco is the fourth largest river in the world and also one of the longest rivers in South America. The rivers cover total drainage basin area of 880,000 square km with the Average discharge of 33,000 cubic meters per second and outflow into Atlantic Ocean.
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Rivers The biggest river in the world, measured by the amount of water that flows down it, is the Amazon. On average 120,000 cubic metres (about 20 swimming pools' worth) of water flows out of its mouth every second.
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The Largest Rivers in India Ganges River. Although the Ganges River is technically the third-largest river that goes through India, is it the largest river that flows within India's borders. It flows for about 1,560 miles and is one of the most sacred rivers in India; scriptures written more than 2,000 years ago reference the river by name.
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Yangtze Lakes & Rivers. The Yangtze River, the longest river in Asia, used to be one of the only two rivers in the world that was home to two different species of dolphin—the Yangtze finless porpoise and the Baiji dolphin. However, in 2006 the Baiji dolphin was declared functionally extinct.
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Indus River It is Pakistan's longest river. The river has a total drainage area exceeding 1,165,000 km 2 (450,000 sq mi). Its estimated annual flow stands at around 207 km 3 (50 cu mi), making it the twenty-first largest river in the world in terms of annual flow. The Zanskar is its left bank tributary in Ladakh.
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- The largest river basin of India is the Ganga basin, which receives water from Himalayas in the north and the Vindhyas in the South. The Ganga, Yamuna, Ghagra, Gandak and Kosi are the main constituents of this basin.The Brahmaputra has the greatest volume of water of all the rivers in India.he source of the Kaveri is located in the Western Ghats. It has many tributaries including Shimsha, Hemavati River, Arkavathy, Kapila, Honnuhole, Lakshmana Tirtha, Kabini, Lokapavani, Bhavani, Noyyal and famous Amaravati. Kaveri is a major source of irrigation in Tamil Nadu.
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Top 10 Largest Dams in the World Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan is the second largest dam in the world by structural volume and the largest earth filled dam in the world. The dam is 485 feet (148 m) high above the riverbed. The dam forms the Tarbela Reservoir, with a surface area of approximately 250-square-kilometre (97 sq mi).
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Great Basin The Great Basin's longest and largest river is the Bear River of 350 mi (560 km), and the largest single watershed is the Humboldt River drainage of roughly 17,000 sq mi (44,000 km 2).
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Major Rivers of Europe Major Rivers of Europe : Volga. Source – Valdai Hills, south of St Petersburg, Russia; Mouth – Caspian Sea; Length – 3692 Km; Volga river is the largest river of Europe in terms of not only the length but also the flow rate (discharge). The drainage basin of Volga is also largest as compared to other European rivers.
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Major Rivers of Europe Major Rivers of Europe : Danube. 1  Source – confluence of Breg and Brigach rivers, Black Forest, Germany. 2  Mouth – Danube Delta, Black Sea. 3  Length – 2860 Km.