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25 best known rivers in Europe

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. 1Danube
2. 2Rhine
3. 3Volga
4. 4Seine
5. 5Thames
6. 6Dnieper
7. 7Elbe
8. 8Vistula
9. 9Ural
10. 10Don
11. 11Loire
12. 12Po
13. 13Oder
14. 14Rhône
15. 15Dniester
16. 16Tiber
17. 17Tagus
18. 18Neva
19. 19Daugava
20. 20Meuse
21. 21Ebro
22. 22Main
23. 23Douro
24. 24Moselle
25. 25Tisza

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.

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