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15 longest rivers of the Yellow River basin

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. 1Yellow River5,464 km
  2. 2Wei818 km
  3. 3Fen694 km
  4. 4Luo (Shaanxi)680 km
  5. 5Tao673 km
  6. 6Datong560 km
  7. 7Qin He485 km
  8. 8Black River (in Sichuan)456 km
  9. 9Jing455 km
  10. 10Luo420 km
  11. 11Huangshui374 km
  12. 12Bai (Gansu and Sichuan)283 km
  13. 13Daheihe236 km
  14. 14Dawen208 km
  15. 15Daxia203 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. Rivers in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica. The Yellow River basin: the Yellow River and every river here that flows into it, directly or through other rivers and lakes, following where Wikidata says each river flows (P403) downstream.

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