The Longest Rivers — Data Stories
The ten longest river systems on Earth, in kilometres. The Nile (about 6,650 km) and the… Interactive Data Stories on MyLeoNes: real open data, animated.
The Longest Rivers
The ten longest river systems on Earth, in kilometres
What can we learn?
- The Nile (about 6,650 km) and the Amazon (about 6,400 km) are so close that scientists still argue which is longer — it depends on where you say each river starts.
- The Amazon carries far more water than any other river: roughly a fifth of all the river water that reaches the oceans.
- Some names here are river systems: the Mississippi–Missouri and the Ob–Irtysh are measured from the farthest source, through more than one named river.
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