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14 longest rivers in Namibia

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. 1Zambezi2,574 km
  2. 2Orange River2,200 km
  3. 3Okavango1,600 km
  4. 4Cunene1,207 km
  5. 5Nossob740 km
  6. 6Cuando731 km
  7. 7Fish River650 km
  8. 8Kuiseb560 km
  9. 9Swakop460 km
  10. 10Ugab450 km
  11. 11Auob400 km
  12. 12Hoarusib300 km
  13. 13Huab300 km
  14. 14Löwenfluss250 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 14 longest rivers in Namibia, 14 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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