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15 longest rivers in Ethiopia

15 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. 1Blue Nile1,783 km
  2. 2Jubba1,658 km
  3. 3Awash1,200 km
  4. 4Shebelle1,130 km
  5. 5Atbarah1,120 km
  6. 6Ganale Dorya858 km
  7. 7Omo760 km
  8. 8Tekezé608 km
  9. 9Weyib450 km
  10. 10Mareb440 km
  11. 11Akobo434 km
  12. 12Beles350 km
  13. 13Pibor320 km
  14. 14Baro306 km
  15. 15Angereb220 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 15 longest rivers in Ethiopia, 15 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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