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25 longest 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. 1Volga3,530 km
  2. 2Danube2,850 km
  3. 3Ural2,428 km
  4. 4Dnieper2,285 km
  5. 5Don1,870 km
  6. 6Pechora1,809 km
  7. 7Kama1,805 km
  8. 8Oka1,500 km
  9. 9Belaya1,430 km
  10. 10Dniester1,352 km
  11. 11Vyatka1,314 km
  12. 12Rhine1,233 km
  13. 13Desna1,130 km
  14. 14Vychegda1,130 km
  15. 15Elbe1,094 km
  16. 16Donets1,053 km
  17. 17Vistula1,047 km
  18. 18Daugava1,020 km
  19. 19Tagus1,007 km
  20. 20Loire1,006 km
  21. 21Khopyor979 km
  22. 22Mezen966 km
  23. 23Tisza966 km
  24. 24Prut953 km
  25. 25Meuse950 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.

On the map

Map of 25 longest rivers in Europe, 25 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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