World's Longest Rivers

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	River	Length (km)	Length (miles)	Drainage area (km²)	Averagedischarge(m³/s)	Outflow	Countries in the drainage basin
1.	Nile – Kagera[n 1]	6,650 (6,853)	4,132 (4,258)	3,349,000	5,100	Mediterranean Sea	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi,Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2.	Amazon – Ucayali – Apurímac[n 1]	6,400 (6,992)	3,976 (4,345)	6,915,000	219,000	Atlantic Ocean	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana
3.	Yangtze (Chang Jiang)	6,300	3,917	1,800,000	31,900	East China Sea	China
4.	Mississippi – Missouri – Jefferson	6,275	3,902	2,980,000	16,200	Gulf of Mexico	United States (98.5%), Canada (1.5%)
5.	Río de la Plata – Paraná –Paranaíba[6][7]	6,170	3,830	4,144,000	22,000	Atlantic Ocean	Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay
6.	Yenisei – Angara – Selenga	5,539	3,445	2,580,000	19,600	Kara Sea	Russia, Mongolia
7.	Yellow (Huang He)	5,464	3,398	745,000	2,110	Bohai Sea (Balhae)	China
8.	Ob – Irtysh	5,410	3,364	2,990,000	12,800	Gulf of Ob	Russia, Kazakhstan, P.R. China, Mongolia
9.	Paraná[6]	4,880	3,030	2,582,672	18,000	Río de la Plata	Brazil (46.7%), Argentina (27.7%), Paraguay (13.5%), Bolivia (8.3%),Uruguay (3.8%)
10.	Congo – Chambeshi (Zaïre)	4,700	2,922	3,680,000	41,800	Atlantic Ocean	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola,Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda
11.	Amur – Argun (Heilong Jiang)	4,444	2,763	1,855,000	11,400	Sea of Okhotsk	Russia, P.R. China, Mongolia
11.	Lena	4,400	2,736	2,490,000	17,100	Laptev Sea	Russia
12.	Mekong (Lancang Jiang)	4,350	2,705	810,000	16,000	South China Sea	Laos, Thailand, P.R. China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar
13.	Mackenzie – Peace – Finlay	4,241	2,637	1,790,000	10,300	Beaufort Sea	Canada
14.	Niger	4,200	2,611	2,090,000	9,570	Gulf of Guinea	Nigeria (26.6%), Mali (25.6%), Niger (23.6%), Algeria (7.6%), Guinea(4.5%), Cameroon (4.2%), Burkina Faso (3.9%), Côte d'Ivoire, Benin,Chad
15.	Murray – Darling	3,672[8]	2,282	1,061,000	767	Southern Ocean	Australia
16.	Tocantins – Araguaia	3,650	2,270	950,000	13,598	Atlantic Ocean, Amazon	Brazil
17.	Volga	3,645	2,266	1,380,000	8,080	Caspian Sea	Russia
18.	Shatt al-Arab – Euphrates	3,596	2,236	884,000	856	Persian Gulf	Iraq (60.5%), Turkey (24.8%), Syria (14.7%)
19.	Madeira – Mamoré – Grande – Caine –Rocha	3,380	2,100	1,485,200	31,200	Amazon	Brazil, Bolivia, Peru
20.	Purus	3,211	1,995	63,166	8,400	Amazon	Brazil, Peru
21.	Yukon	3,185	1,980	850,000	6,210	Bering Sea	United States (59.8%), Canada (40.2%)
22.	Indus (Sindhu)	3,180	1,976	960,000	7,160	Arabian Sea	Pakistan (93%), India, China, Afghanistan
23.	São Francisco	3,180* (2,900)	1,976* (1,802)	610,000	3,300	Atlantic Ocean	Brazil
24.	Syr Darya – Naryn	3,078	1,913	219,000	703	Aral Sea	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
25.	Salween (Nu Jiang)	3,060	1,901	324,000	3,153[9]	Andaman Sea	P.R. China (52.4%), Myanmar (43.9%), Thailand (3.7%)
26.	Saint Lawrence – Niagara – Detroit –Saint Clair – Saint Marys – Saint Louis	3,058	1,900	1,030,000	10,100	Gulf of Saint Lawrence	Canada (52.1%), United States (47.9%)
27.	Rio Grande	3,057 (2,896)	1,900 (1,799)	570,000	82	Gulf of Mexico	United States (52.1%), Mexico (47.9%)
28.	Lower Tunguska	2,989	1,857	473,000	3,600	Yenisei	Russia
29.	Brahmaputra – Tsangpo	2,948*	1,832*	1,730,000	19,200[10]	Bay of Bengal	India (58.0%), P.R. China (19.7%), Nepal (9.0%), Bangladesh (6.6%), Disputed India/P.R. China (4.2%), Bhutan (2.4%)
30.	Danube – Breg (Duna)	2,888*	1,795*	817,000	7,130	Black Sea	Romania (28.9%), Hungary (11.7%), Austria (10.3%), Serbia (10.3%),Germany (7.5%), Slovakia (5.8%), Bulgaria (5.2%), Croatia (4.5%),
31.	Zambezi (Zambesi)	2,693*	1,673*	1,330,000	4,880	Mozambique Channel	Zambia (41.6%), Angola (18.4%), Zimbabwe (15.6%), Mozambique(11.8%), Malawi (8.0%), Tanzania (2.0%), Namibia, Botswana
32.	Vilyuy	2,650	1,647	454,000	1,480	Lena	Russia
33.	Araguaia	2,627	1,632	358,125	5,510	Tocantins	Brazil
34.	Amu Darya	2,620	1,628	534,739	1,400	Aral Sea	Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
35.	Japurá (Rio Yapurá)	2,615*	1,625*	242,259	6,000	Amazon	Brazil, Colombia
36.	Nelson – Saskatchewan	2,570	1,597	1,093,000	2,575	Hudson Bay	Canada, United States
37.	Paraguay (Rio Paraguay)	2,549	1,584	900,000	4,300	Paraná	Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina
38.	Kolyma	2,513	1,562	644,000	3,800	East Siberian Sea	Russia
39.	Ganges/Padma (Ganga)	2,510	1,560	907,000	12,037[11]	Brahmaputra,Bay of Bengal	India, Bangladesh, Nepal
40.	Pilcomayo	2,500	1,553	270,000		Paraguay	Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia
41.	Upper Ob	2,490	1,547			Ob	Russia
42.	Ishim	2,450	1,522	177,000	56	Irtysh	Kazakhstan, Russia
43.	Juruá	2,410	1,498	200,000	6,000	Amazon	Peru, Brazil
44.	Ural	2,428	1,509	237,000	475	Caspian Sea	Russia, Kazakhstan
45.	Arkansas	2,348	1,459	505,000 (435,122)	1,066	Mississippi	United States
47.	Olenyok	2,292	1,424	219,000	1,210	Laptev Sea	Russia
48.	Dnieper	2,287	1,421	516,300	1,670	Black Sea	Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
49.	Aldan	2,273	1,412	729,000	5,060	Lena	Russia
46.	Ubangi – Uele[12]	2,270	1,410	772,800	4,000	Congo	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo
50.	Negro	2,250	1,450	720,114	26,700	Amazon	Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia
51.	Columbia	2,250 (1,953)	1,450 (1,214)	415,211	7,500	Pacific Ocean	United States, Canada
52.	Colorado (western U.S.)	2,333	1,450	390,000	1,200	Gulf of California	United States, Mexico
53.	Pearl – Zhu Jiang	2,200	1,376	437,000	13,600	South China Sea	P.R. China (98.5%), Vietnam (1.5%)
54.	Red	2,188	1,360	78,592	875	Mississippi	United States
55.	Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy)	2,170	1,348	411,000	13,000	Andaman Sea	Myanmar
56.	Kasai	2,153	1,338	880,200	10,000	Congo	Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo
57.	Ohio – Allegheny	2,102	1,306	490,603	7,957	Mississippi	United States
58.	Orinoco	2,101	1,306	1,380,000	98,000	Atlantic Ocean	Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana
59.	Tarim	2,100	1,305	557,000		Lop Nur	P. R. China
60.	Xingu	2,100	1,305			Amazon	Brazil
61.	Orange	2,092	1,300			Atlantic Ocean	South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho
62.	Northern Salado	2,010	1,249			Paraná	Argentina
63.	Vitim	1,978	1,229			Lena	Russia
64.	Tigris	1,950	1,212			Shatt al-Arab	Turkey, Iraq, Syria
65.	Songhua	1,927	1,197			Amur	P. R. China
66.	Tapajós	1,900	1,181			Amazon	Brazil
67.	Don	1,870	1,162	425,600	935	Sea of Azov	Russia,
68.	Stony Tunguska	1,865	1,159	240,000		Yenisei	Russia
69.	Pechora	1,809	1,124	322,000		Barents Sea	Russia
70.	Kama	1,805	1,122	507,000		Volga	Russia
71.	Limpopo	1,800	1,118	413,000		Indian Ocean	Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana
72.	Guaporé (Itenez)	1,749	1,087			Mamoré	Brazil, Bolivia
73.	Indigirka	1,726	1,072	360,400	1,810	East Siberian Sea	Russia
74.	Snake	1,670	1,038	279,719	1,611	Columbia	United States
75.	Senegal	1,641	1,020	419,659		Atlantic Ocean	Senegal, Mali, Mauritania
76.	Uruguay	1,610	1,000	370,000		Atlantic Ocean	Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil
77.	Blue Nile	1,600	994	326,400		Nile	Ethiopia, Sudan
77.	Churchill	1,600	994			Hudson Bay	Canada
77.	Khatanga	1,600	994			Laptev Sea	Russia
77.	Okavango	1,600	994			Okavango Delta	Namibia, Angola, Botswana
77.	Volta	1,600	994			Gulf of Guinea	Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin
82.	Beni	1,599	994	283,350	8,900	Madeira	Bolivia
83.	Platte	1,594	990			Missouri	United States
84.	Tobol	1,591	989			Irtysh	Kazakhstan, Russia
85.	Jubba – Shebelle	1,580*	982*			Indian Ocean	Ethiopia, Somalia
86.	Içá (Putumayo)	1,575	979			Amazon	Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
87.	Magdalena	1,550	963	263,858	9,000	Caribbean Sea	Colombia
88.	Han	1,532	952			Yangtze	P. R. China
89.	Oka	1,500	932			Volga	Russia
91.	Pecos	1,490	926			Rio Grande	United States
92.	Upper Yenisei	1,480	920			Yenisei	Russia, Mongolia
93.	Godavari	1,465	910			Bay of Bengal	India
94.	Colorado (Texas)	1,438	894			Gulf of Mexico	United States
95.	Río Grande (Guapay)	1,438	894	102,600	264	Ichilo	Bolivia
96.	Belaya	1,420	882			Kama	Russia
97.	Cooper – Barcoo	1,420	880			Lake Eyre	Australia
98.	Marañón	1,415	879			Amazon	Peru
99.	Dniester	1,411 (1,352)	877 (840)			Black Sea	Ukraine, Moldova
100.	Benue	1,400	870			Niger	Cameroon, Nigeria
100.	Ili (Yili)	1,400	870			Lake Balkhash	P. R. China, Kazakhstan
100.	Warburton – Georgina	1,400	870			Lake Eyre	Australia
103.	Sutlej	1,372	852			Chenab	China, India, Pakistan
104.	Yamuna	1,370	851			Ganges	India
105.	Vyatka	1,370	851			Kama	Russia
106.	Fraser	1,368	850	220,000	3,475	Pacific Ocean	Canada
107.	Mtkvari (Kura)	1,364	848			Caspian Sea	Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Iran
108.	Grande	1,360	845			Paraná	Brazil
109.	Brazos	1,352	840			Gulf of Mexico	United States
110.	Cauca	1,350	839			Magdalena	Colombia