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Author: Lakmal Dhanushka

Top 5 Longest Rivers in the World


The river is a one of wonderful geographical aspect. Time to time, area to area, person to person rivers are taken different faces. They give life to peoples by supplying water, they give scenic beauty to environment, as well as they give very bad impacts to the environment and peoples. There are 165 major rivers in the world. The number for smaller ones could be somewhere in the thousands. Some of the rivers are not even counted because of their size. Normally rivers are categorized by their length. Followings are the top 5 longest rivers in the world. 1. Nile The Nile is famous as the longest river in the world. The river got its name from the Greek word Neilos, which means valley. The Nile floods the lands in Egypt, leaving behind black sediment. That's why the ancient Egyptians named the river Ar, meaning black. Location - Africa Length (miles) 4,132 Length (km) - 6,650 Drainage area (km) - 3,349,000 Average discharge (m/s) 5,100

2. Amazon The Amazon River is the world's second longest river. The Amazon however, at any one point in time has the highest amount of water flowing down it. No other river even comes close. It may not be the longest, but it is the widest. Location - Africa Length (miles) 3,976 Length (km) - 6,400 Drainage area (km) - 6,915,000 Average discharge (m/s) 219,000

3. Yangtze Winding about 3,900 miles, Yangtze River is the largest river in China and the third largest in the world after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. Originating from the Tanggula Range in Qinghai Province in western China, the Yangtze River traverses eleven provinces and cities from west to east, including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai. Finally it pours into the East China Sea at Shanghai. Location - Africa Length (miles) 3,917 Length (km) - 6,300 Drainage area (km) - 1,800,000 Average discharge (m/s) 31,900

4. Mississippi The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. Location - USA Length (miles) 3,902 Length (km) - 6,275 Drainage area (km) - 2,980,000 Average discharge (m/s) 16,200 5. Yenisei The Yenisei River is the 5th longest river in the world and is located on the Asian Continent mainly flowing through and splitting Siberia in Russia. One of its main feeder rivers is the Angara which originates at Lake Baikal, a lake so deep that it contains more water than all 5 Great Lakes combined. Location - Asia (Russia) Length (miles) 3,445 Length (km) - 5,539 Drainage area (km) - 2,580,000 Average discharge (m/s) 19,600

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