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18 longest rivers in Afghanistan

18 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. 1Amu Darya2,620 km
  2. 2Hari1,150 km
  3. 3Helmand1,150 km
  4. 4Hari (Iran)1,100 km
  5. 5Marghab978 km
  6. 6Panj921 km
  7. 7Farah580 km
  8. 8Bartang528 km
  9. 9Kunar480 km
  10. 10Kabul460 km
  11. 11Kunduz420 km
  12. 12Arghandab400 km
  13. 13Gomal400 km
  14. 14Kokcha360 km
  15. 15Dori320 km
  16. 16Kushk277 km
  17. 17Panjshir230 km
  18. 18Wakhan220 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 18 longest rivers in Afghanistan, 18 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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