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25 longest rivers in Queensland

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. 1Warrego1,380 km
  2. 2Cooper Creek1,300 km
  3. 3Flinders1,004 km
  4. 4Diamantina941 km
  5. 5Barwon889 km
  6. 6Gilbert887 km
  7. 7Mitchell750 km
  8. 8Dawson735 km
  9. 9Burdekin732 km
  10. 10Nicholson725 km
  11. 11Condamine657 km
  12. 12Leichhardt631 km
  13. 13Paroo600 km
  14. 14Moonie542 km
  15. 15Cloncurry530 km
  16. 16Eyre Creek520 km
  17. 17Maranoa519 km
  18. 18Culgoa489 km
  19. 19Fitzroy480 km
  20. 20Balonne479 km
  21. 21Weir470 km
  22. 22Gilbert-Einasleigh440 km
  23. 23Burnett435 km
  24. 24Norman420 km
  25. 25Barcoo380 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. An item counts for every first-level unit (state, province, county) it touches: a lake or island by its outline, a river by its course, within about 1.5 km; a summit, a cape or anything without a shape by its point.

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