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25 longest rivers in China

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. 1Yangtze6,300 km
  2. 2Yellow River5,464 km
  3. 3Mekong4,350 km
  4. 4Irtysh4,248 km
  5. 5Brahmaputra2,900 km
  6. 6Amur2,824 km
  7. 7Salween2,815 km
  8. 8Tarim2,030 km
  9. 9Argun1,620 km
  10. 10Han (Hubei and Shaanxi)1,532 km
  11. 11Sutlej1,500 km
  12. 12Ili1,439 km
  13. 13Songhua1,434 km
  14. 14Nen1,370 km
  15. 15Liao1,345 km
  16. 16Yalong1,323 km
  17. 17Kherlen1,254 km
  18. 18Yu River1,152 km
  19. 19Wu River1,150 km
  20. 20Red River1,149 km
  21. 21Jialing1,119 km
  22. 22Huai1,110 km
  23. 23Ghaghara1,080 km
  24. 24Hotan1,035 km
  25. 25Black River910 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.

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