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.
