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20 longest tributaries of the Mackenzie

20 tributaries, 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 tributaries

  1. 1Liard1,115 km
  2. 2Hay River702 km
  3. 3Peel684 km
  4. 4Taltson500 km
  5. 5Arctic Red450 km
  6. 6Slave434 km
  7. 7Keele410 km
  8. 8Mountain357 km
  9. 9Redstone342 km
  10. 10Carcajou333 km
  11. 11Willowlake330 km
  12. 12Kakisa300 km
  13. 13Horn278 km
  14. 14Hare Indian271 km
  15. 15Johnny Hoe263 km
  16. 16Ontaratue250 km
  17. 17Root246 km
  18. 18Blackwater216 km
  19. 19Jean Marie205 km
  20. 20North Nahanni River200 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. Tributaries: the rivers that flow straight into the Mackenzie, as Wikidata records where each river flows (P403) or which rivers flow into it (P974). A named stretch of the Mackenzie (the Solimões of the Amazon) counts as the Mackenzie; a river that reaches it through a lake or through a river too short for this pool is in its basin, not one of its tributaries. Their own tributaries are left out.

On the map

Map of 20 longest tributaries of the Mackenzie, 20 tributaries: each one marked on the globe

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