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25 longest rivers in the Balkans

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. 1Danube2,850 km
  2. 2Tisza966 km
  3. 3Sava945 km
  4. 4Drava720 km
  5. 5Maritsa490 km
  6. 6Mur434 km
  7. 7Struma415 km
  8. 8Vardar388 km
  9. 9Iskar368 km
  10. 10Timiș359 km
  11. 11Drina346 km
  12. 12West Morava308 km
  13. 13Haliacmon297 km
  14. 14Kupa297 km
  15. 15South Morava295 km
  16. 16Arda290 km
  17. 17Yantra286 km
  18. 18Tundzha283 km
  19. 19Bosna282 km
  20. 20Drin280 km
  21. 21Vjosa280 km
  22. 22Ibar276 km
  23. 23Kamchiya244 km
  24. 24Vrbas240 km
  25. 25Nestos230 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. The Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. 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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