Rivers are Celebrities

Major rivers

Nile
Origin – Lake Victoria, Shared by nations Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya
Mouth – Egypt
Length – 6853 Km
It flows along 11 countries – Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethyopia, Egypt, Eritrea.

Amazon
Origin – Peru
Mouth – Brazil
Length – 6400 Km
Amazon is the largest river in the world by discharge rate.

Yangtze (Chang Jiang)
Origin – Quinghai
Mouth – East China Sea
Length – 6300 Km

Mississippi – Missouri
Origin – Minesota
Mouth – Gulf of Mexico
Length – 3766 Kms but 5971 Km with with tributaries Missouri-Jefferson

Yenisei River
Origin – Mongolia
Mouth – Kara sea
Length – 5539 Km

Yellow River
Origin – China
Mouth – Bohai Sea
Length – 5464 Km

Largest river in India
Our global example

Ganga River
Origin – Himalayas
Mouth – Bay of Bengal
Length – 2525 Km

Sovereign countries where there is no river
Bahamas, Bahrain, Kiribati, Kuwait, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Saudi Arabia, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates

Dependencies and other territories where there is no river
Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Guernsey, Easter Island, Gibraltar, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna

The River Nile is the longest river in the world and is 4, 258 miles long. In comparison, the Reprua River in the Caucasus is considered the shortest river in the world at only 27 meters long.

With a depth of over 220 meters, the Congo is the world’s deepest river. That’s four Niagara Falls stacked on top of each other!

Hydropower from rivers generates 16% of the world’s electricity. Another 3,700 hydropower stations are currently being built around the world.

The biggest river on the planet is the Amazon and it discharges 84 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water into the sea every second.