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21 longest rivers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

21 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. 1Congo4,700 km
  2. 2Kasai2,272 km
  3. 3Kwango1,770 km
  4. 4Tshuapa1,300 km
  5. 5Lomami1,280 km
  6. 6Uele1,210 km
  7. 7Sankuru1,200 km
  8. 8Ubangi1,060 km
  9. 9Kwilu965 km
  10. 10Chicapa870 km
  11. 11Mbomou800 km
  12. 12Luapula560 km
  13. 13Inkisi555 km
  14. 14Lufira500 km
  15. 15Lwembe470 km
  16. 16Mongala370 km
  17. 17Luvua350 km
  18. 18Lukuga320 km
  19. 19Busira305 km
  20. 20Ebola250 km
  21. 21Semliki230 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 21 longest rivers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 21 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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