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25 longest rivers in Africa

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. 1Nile6,650 km
  2. 2Congo4,700 km
  3. 3Niger4,180 km
  4. 4Zambezi2,574 km
  5. 5Kasai2,272 km
  6. 6Orange River2,200 km
  7. 7Blue Nile1,783 km
  8. 8Kwango1,770 km
  9. 9Limpopo1,750 km
  10. 10Jubba1,658 km
  11. 11Okavango1,600 km
  12. 12Kafue1,577 km
  13. 13Volta1,500 km
  14. 14Chari1,400 km
  15. 15Benue1,370 km
  16. 16Tshuapa1,300 km
  17. 17Lomami1,280 km
  18. 18Uele1,210 km
  19. 19Cunene1,207 km
  20. 20Awash1,200 km
  21. 21Sankuru1,200 km
  22. 22Gambia1,130 km
  23. 23Shebelle1,130 km
  24. 24Atbarah1,120 km
  25. 25Vaal1,120 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. 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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