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13 longest rivers in Tanzania

13 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. 1Ruvuma800 km
  2. 2Rufiji600 km
  3. 3Wami545 km
  4. 4Great Ruaha River480 km
  5. 5Malagarasi475 km
  6. 6Pangani420 km
  7. 7Kagera400 km
  8. 8Mara395 km
  9. 9Mbwemburu320 km
  10. 10Bubu300 km
  11. 11Ruhuhu300 km
  12. 12Rurubu300 km
  13. 13Ruvu285 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.

On the map

Map of 13 longest rivers in Tanzania, 13 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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