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20 longest rivers in south India

20 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. 1Godavari1,465 km
  2. 2Krishna1,400 km
  3. 3Bhima861 km
  4. 4Kaveri765 km
  5. 5Manjira724 km
  6. 6Tungabhadra710 km
  7. 7Penna597 km
  8. 8Wainganga580 km
  9. 9Painganga495 km
  10. 10Sabari418 km
  11. 11Indravati386 km
  12. 12Palar350 km
  13. 13Amarāvati282 km
  14. 14Hemavati245 km
  15. 15Periyar244 km
  16. 16Musi (India)240 km
  17. 17Vaigai240 km
  18. 18Vamsadhara239 km
  19. 19Varada220 km
  20. 20Nagavali217 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. South India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Puducherry. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 20 longest rivers in south India, 20 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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