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In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It has historically been considered the longest river in the world, [3] [4] though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. [5] [6] Of the world's major rivers, the Nile is one of the smallest, as measured by annual flow in cubic metres of water. [7]
The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about 1,110 km (690 mi) long with a drainage area of 174,000 km 2 (67,000 sq mi). [2] It is located about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, [2] the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins in China.
List of drainage basins by area (including rivers, lakes, and endorheic basins) List of largest unfragmented rivers; List of longest undammed rivers; List of river name etymologies; List of rivers by age; List of rivers by discharge; List of rivers by length; List of rivers of Central America and the Caribbean; List of rivers of the Americas
The second longest river in North America and the United States is the Mississippi River (2,320 mi (3,730 km)). The Rio Conchos (350 mi (560 km)) is the longest river in Mexico. The longest river in Canada is the Mackenzie River (1,080 mi (1,740 km)). Some of the longest or otherwise notable rivers include the rivers listed in the table below.
Rivers with an average discharge of 5,000 m 3 /s or greater, as a fraction of the estimated global total. This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate. Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than 2,000 m 3 /s (71,000 cu ft/s) are shown. It can be thought of as a list of the ...
Predates the Alice Springs Orogeny; several other smaller rivers in the Northern Territory are of a similar age [1] [2] Meuse: 340~320 North Sea: Paleozoic, dissects the Ardennes during the Hercynian [3] French Broad River: 340~320 Tennessee River: Dissects the Appalachian Mountains, formed by the Alleghenian orogeny, 320–340 ma.
The Scythian name survives in modern Moksha as Rav (Рав). [18] [19] The Greek author Herodotus recorded two more ancient Iranic names of the Volga: Oaros (Ancient Greek: Οαρος, romanized: Oaros; Latin: Oarus), which was derived from Scythian *Varu, meaning "broad". [20] The Huns' name of the Dnieper river, Var, was also derived from ...