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17 longest rivers in Kansas

17 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. 1Missouri3,726 km
  2. 2Arkansas2,364 km
  3. 3Cimarron1,123 km
  4. 4Smoky Hill River925 km
  5. 5Neosho745 km
  6. 6Big Blue River578 km
  7. 7Verdigris500 km
  8. 8Little Blue River394 km
  9. 9Pawnee319 km
  10. 10Platte (Iowa and Missouri)275 km
  11. 11Bear Creek260 km
  12. 12Walnut248 km
  13. 13Kansas River238 km
  14. 14Chikaskia233 km
  15. 15Marais des Cygnes225 km
  16. 16Spring208 km
  17. 17Little Arkansas River206 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 17 longest rivers in Kansas, 17 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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