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13 longest rivers in West Virginia

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. 1Ohio1,579 km
  2. 2Potomac665 km
  3. 3New River515 km
  4. 4Elk River (West Virginia)283 km
  5. 5Little Kanawha River269 km
  6. 6Guyandotte267 km
  7. 7Levisa Fork264 km
  8. 8Greenbrier261 km
  9. 9Tug Fork256 km
  10. 10South Branch Potomac River224 km
  11. 11Tygart Valley217 km
  12. 12Youghiogheny216 km
  13. 13Monongahela209 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. An item counts for every first-level unit (state, province, county) it touches: a lake or island by its outline, a river by its course, within about 1.5 km; a summit, a cape or anything without a shape by its point.

On the map

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

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