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11 longest rivers of the Loire basin

11 rivers, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The rivers

  1. 1Loire1,006 km
  2. 2Allier421 km
  3. 3Vienne372 km
  4. 4Cher365 km
  5. 5Loir317 km
  6. 6Sarthe314 km
  7. 7Indre280 km
  8. 8Creuse263 km
  9. 9Gartempe205 km
  10. 10Mayenne202 km
  11. 11Maine12 km

Length in km as Wikidata records it (P2043, the best-ranked figure). Each named river counts on its own: the river that carries the name, from its source to its mouth. Headstreams and tributaries with names of their own are rivers of their own, so the Missouri and the Mississippi are two rivers here, as are the Irtysh and the Ob (the Longest River Systems set measures such chains as one system, from the most distant source). A named section of a river is that river: the Solimões, as the Amazon’s upper course is called in Brazil, is the Amazon. Where the recorded length runs from a differently named headwater (the Congo’s from the Lualaba’s source), the course is drawn on up that headwater. Rivers under 200 km are in only when they are well known (30 or more Wikipedia editions), and a river whose mapped course covers under half its recorded length is left out. Rivers in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica. The Loire basin: the Loire and every river here that flows into it, directly or through other rivers and lakes, following where Wikidata says each river flows (P403) downstream.

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Map of 11 longest rivers of the Loire basin, 11 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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