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25 best known rivers in Asia

25 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. 1Ganges
  2. 2Yangtze
  3. 3Indus
  4. 4Yellow River
  5. 5Euphrates
  6. 6Tigris
  7. 7Jordan
  8. 8Mekong
  9. 9Amur
  10. 10Brahmaputra
  11. 11Lena
  12. 12Ob
  13. 13Yenisei
  14. 14Amu Darya
  15. 15Yamuna
  16. 16Irtysh
  17. 17Syr Darya
  18. 18Godavari
  19. 19Irrawaddy
  20. 20Angara
  21. 21Krishna
  22. 22Aras
  23. 23Kura
  24. 24Kolyma
  25. 25Shatt al-Arab

How well known each river is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). A river known far beyond its country has articles in many languages. 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. 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 25 best known rivers in Asia, 25 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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