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12 longest rivers in south China

12 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. 1Yu River1,152 km
  2. 2Nanpan856 km
  3. 3Xiang801 km
  4. 4Hongshui638 km
  5. 5Dong523 km
  6. 6Gui437 km
  7. 7Han (Guangdong)410 km
  8. 8Xiao354 km
  9. 9Wu River (Guangdong and Hunan)260 km
  10. 10Bei255 km
  11. 11Liu204 km
  12. 12Li River164 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. South China: Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 12 longest rivers in south China, 12 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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