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25 longest rivers in northwest 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. 3Irtysh4,248 km
  4. 4Tarim2,030 km
  5. 5Han (Hubei and Shaanxi)1,532 km
  6. 6Ili1,439 km
  7. 7Yalong1,323 km
  8. 8Jialing1,119 km
  9. 9Hotan1,035 km
  10. 10Wei818 km
  11. 11Kashgar765 km
  12. 12Qiemo725 km
  13. 13Ulungur725 km
  14. 14Fen694 km
  15. 15Luo (Shaanxi)680 km
  16. 16Tao673 km
  17. 17Ruo Shui630 km
  18. 18Bailong576 km
  19. 19Datong560 km
  20. 20Konqi He550 km
  21. 21Chumar530 km
  22. 22Keriya He530 km
  23. 23Ngom Qu500 km
  24. 24Black River (in Sichuan)456 km
  25. 25Jing455 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. Northwest China: Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Shaanxi. 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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