Rank |
River Name |
Location | Length (km) |
Length (miles) |
| 1 | Nile | Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt (End), Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6,693 | 4,135 |
| 2 | Amazon | Brazil(End), Peru(Birth), Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana | 6,436 | 3,980 |
| 3 | Yangtze | China | 6,378 | 3,917 |
| 4 | Mississippi – Missouri | United States, Canada | 6,228 | 3,870 |
| 5 | Yenisei | Russia, Mongolia | 5,526 | 3,434 |
The length of a river is very hard to calculate. It depends on the identification of the source, the identification of the mouth, and the scale of measurement of the river length between source and mouth. As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations. In particular, there has long been disagreement as to whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river. While the Amazon is usually considered to be the second longest river in the world, it carries more water than any other river.
Niel Delta |
Pink Amazon Dolphin (Left) |
Niel Delta
