Longest rivers in the world

1) Nile River – Africa – 6650 km

2) Amazon – South America – 6400 km

3) Yangtze River – China

4) Mississippi–Missouri–Jefferson – USA

5) Yenisei–Angara–Selenge–Ider – Russia & Mongolia

6) Yellow River – China

7) Ob River - Russia
 Rhine River

The Rhine is one of the major European rivers, which has its sources in Switzerland from
Swiss Alps and flows in a mostly northerly direction through Germany and the
Netherlands, emptying into the North Sea.

Length- 1,230 km

Its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire is supported by the many castles
and fortifications built along it.

Important cities on the Rhine are Cologne, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Basel.
 Danube River

The Danube is Europe's second-longest river, after the Volga & flows through 10 countries.

Source – Black Forest, Germany

Outflow – Black Sea

Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 2,850 km passing through or
bordering Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and
Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea.

Important cities on its bank – Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade

 Amazon River

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge volume
of water in the world, and the disputed second longest river in the world.
Length - 6400 km
Source - Glacier-fed lakes, Peru
Outflow - Atlantic Ocean

Country - Peru, Colombia, Brazil

The major cities on the Amazon are: Iquitos (Peru), Leticia (Colombia),
Manaus & Santarem (Brazil)
 Mekong River

The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Length - 4,350 km

Source - Tibetan Plateau

Outflow – South China Sea
The river runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and
Vietnam.

The major cities on the Mekong are: Vientiane (Laos),

Phnom Penh, (Cambodia)
 Nile River

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

Longest river in the world
Length - 6,650 km

Origin - Tributaries of Lake Victoria, Africa

Outflow - Mediterranean Sea

Countries drained - Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic

Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and
Egypt.
 Nile River
The Nile has two major tributaries – the White Nile and the Blue Nile.

The White Nile is considered to be the headwaters and primary stream of the
Nile itself. The Blue Nile, however, is the source of most of the water,
containing 80% of the water and silt.

The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa.
The Blue Nile begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
The two rivers meet just north of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

The major cities on the Nile are: Cairo and Alexandria

 Congo River

The Congo River formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second
longest river in Africa after the Nile
Length - 4,700 km
It is the only major river to cross the equator twice.
Origin - Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru feed the Lualaba River which then
merges with Luapula river to form Congo river
Outflow - Atlantic Ocean

Its drainage basin includes Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the

Congo, Central African Republic, eastern Zambia, and northern Angola and
parts of Cameroon and Tanzania.
 Niger River

The Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, extending about 4,180
km.
Source - Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea.
It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then
through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger
Delta into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Niger is the third-longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the
Congo River.
 Zambezi River

The Zambezi River is the fourth-longest river in Africa

Length - 2,574-kilometre

It arises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern
border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the
border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the
country to empty into the Indian Ocean.
 Yellow River, Hwang Ho

It is the 2nd longest river in China, after the Yangtze River

Length - 5,464 km

Origin - Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of Western China

Outflow - Bohai Sea
 Yangtze River

Longest river in China, the third-longest in the world

Length - 6,300 km
It is the longest river in the world to flow entirely
within 1 country.
Origin - Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau)
Outflow - East China Sea
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the largest hydro-electric power
station in the world.

The major cities along Yangtze River are Chongqing, Yichang, Wuhan,
Nanjing and Shanghai.
 Mississippi River

Source - Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 3,730
km in the Gulf of Mexico.

With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 32
U.S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian
mountains.

Major cities - Minneapolis (MN), New Orleans (LA)

 Volga River

The Volga is the longest river in Europe.

Flowing through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea

Length of 3,531 km
It is widely regarded as the national river of Russia.

Origin – Volga Valdai plateau, Russia

Outflow - Caspian Sea

Important cities – Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Volgograd (Stalingrad)

 Ob River

It is the river of central Russia.

Ob flows north and west across western Siberia in a twisting diagonal from its
sources in the Altai Mountains to its outlet into the Kara Sea of the Arctic
Ocean.

Length - 3700 km
 Yenisei River

It is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into
the Arctic Ocean.
Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course before
draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea.
 Lena River

The Lena is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into
the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey).

Length - 4,294 kilometres

Source – Baikal Mountains

Outflow - Laptev Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean
The Tigris–Euphrates river system is a large river
system in Western Asia which discharges into the
Persian Gulf. Its principal rivers are the Tigris and
Euphrates along with smaller tributaries.

The plain between the two rivers is known as

Mesopotamia.
Cities and Banks of Rivers

Vienna – Danube
Belgrade - Danube
Budapest - Danube
Baghdad - Tigris

Bangkok - Chao Phraya

Berlin - Spree
Cairo - Nile
Cities and Banks of Rivers

Dhaka - Buriganga
Frankfurt - Main

Karachi - Indus
Kathmandu - Bagmati
Lahore - Ravi
Cities and Banks of Rivers

Lisbon - Tagus
London - Thames
New York - Hudson
Paris - Seine
Rome - Tiber
Moscow - Moskva
Warsaw - Vistula
 Cities and Banks of Rivers

Washington DC - Potomac River

Amsterdam - Amstel River

Tokyo – Sumida River

 Which International Bank will invest in the
construction of Kanpur’s First city metro line?

A) ADB
B) European Investment Bank
C) BRICS Bank
D) HSBC