longest rivers

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longest rivers

Outflow

km

mi

* Flows through Europe and Asia

Europe

Volga

Caspian Sea

3750

2330

Danube

Black Sea

2859

1770

Ural*

Caspian Sea

2535

1575

Asia

Yangtze [3]

Pacific Ocean

6300

3900

Yenisey-Angara [5]

Arctic Ocean

5550

3445

Huang He [6]

Pacific Ocean

5500

3400

Ob-lrtysh [7]

Arctic Ocean

5410

3360

Amur [10]

Pacific Ocean

4400

2730

Mekong [9]

Pacific Ocean

4180

2600

Africa

Nile [1]

Mediterranean

6700

4160

Congo (Zaïre) [8]

Atlantic Ocean

4670

2900

Niger

Atlantic Ocean

4180

2600

Zambezi

Indian Ocean

2740

1700

North America

Mississippi-Missouri[4]

Gulf of Mexico

6050

3760

Mackenzie

Arctic Ocean

4240

2630

Missouri

Mississippi

4120

2560

Mississippi

Gulf of Mexico

3780

2350

Yukon

Pacific Ocean

3185

1980

Rio Grande

Gulf of Mexico

3030

1880

Arkansas

Mississippi

2335

1450

Colorado

Pacific Ocean

2333

1450

South America

Amazon [2]

Atlantic Ocean

6430

3990

Paraná-Plata

Atlantic Ocean

4000

2400

Purus

Amazon

3350

2080

Madeira

Amazon

3200

1990

Sao Francisco

Atlantic Ocean

2900

1800

Australia

Murray-Darling

Southern Ocean

3750

2830

Darling

Murray

3070

1905

Murray

Southern Ocean

2575

1600

Murrumbidgee

Murray

1690

1050


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