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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]
The title of “world’s longest river” is officially bestowed upon Africa’s Nile by authoritative sources like Encyclopedia Britannica and Guinness World Records.
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 Riverworld series consists of five science fiction novels (1971–1983) by American author Philip José Farmer (1918–2009). The Riverworld is an artificial , or heavily terraformed , planet where all humans (and pre-humans) who ever lived throughout history have been restored to life.
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 ...
'The Longest River in the World') is a 2022 Chinese historical television series written and directed by Zhang Ting, and starring Luo Jin, Yin Fang and Huang Zhizhong. [1] [2] [3] The series tells the story of Chen Huang and Jin Fu governing the Yellow River during the Kangxi period of Qing dynasty (1644–1912).