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14 longest rivers in Arkansas

14 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. 1Mississippi3,766 km
  2. 2Arkansas2,364 km
  3. 3Red River (United States)2,189 km
  4. 4White River1,162 km
  5. 5Ouachita974 km
  6. 6St. Francis686 km
  7. 7Black River (Arkansas–Missouri)480 km
  8. 8Current296 km
  9. 9Kiamichi266 km
  10. 10Bayou Meto240 km
  11. 11Buffalo River240 km
  12. 12Poteau227 km
  13. 13Fourche La Fave225 km
  14. 14Petit Jean210 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.

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