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25 longest rivers in southwest 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. 4Brahmaputra2,900 km
  5. 5Salween2,815 km
  6. 6Sutlej1,500 km
  7. 7Yalong1,323 km
  8. 8Wu River1,150 km
  9. 9Red River1,149 km
  10. 10Jialing1,119 km
  11. 11Ghaghara1,080 km
  12. 12Black River910 km
  13. 13Nanpan856 km
  14. 14Qu River720 km
  15. 15Min711 km
  16. 16Fu River700 km
  17. 17Tuo655 km
  18. 18Dadu642 km
  19. 19Hongshui638 km
  20. 20Shweli610 km
  21. 21Bailong576 km
  22. 22Lhasa568 km
  23. 23Arun530 km
  24. 24Ngom Qu500 km
  25. 25You Shui477 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. Southwest China: Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan and Tibet. 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 southwest China, 25 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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