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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 ...
Yangtze or Yangzi (English: / ˈ j æ ŋ t s i / or / ˈ j ɑː ŋ t s i / simplified Chinese: 长江; traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; lit. 'long river') is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world.
The Yangtze River, literally named "the Long River" in Mandarin, is considered to be the longest river in Asia. [3] [4] It is also the third longest river in the world; stretching 6,315 kilometres from the mountains of Tibet to the Eastern Sea. [4]
Second-longest and largest river in the world, undammed as well as unbridged, does not form a delta while joining the sea due to adequate thrust of river water to overcome the sea water wave and tidal thrusts. 1 Lena River: 4,472 km (2,779 mi) 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi) 17,000 m 3 /s (600,000 cu ft/s) Arctic Ocean: Longest undammed river in ...
The Nile in Africa is officially recognized as the world’s longest river, but now a new expedition is heading to South America with the aim of exploring a tributary of the Amazon which may lead ...
The longest rivers of the United States include 38 that have main stems of at least 500 miles (800 km) long. The main stem is "the primary downstream segment of a river, as contrasted to its tributaries". [ 1 ]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 10,000 homes and forcing ...
This is a list of longest rivers of Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. Included are all rivers with lengths over 1,000 km (620 mi) that are in Asia. River