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25 longest rivers in the Middle East

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. 1Nile6,650 km
  2. 2Euphrates2,800 km
  3. 3Tigris1,850 km
  4. 4Kura1,360 km
  5. 5Kızılırmak1,355 km
  6. 6Hari1,150 km
  7. 7Helmand1,150 km
  8. 8Hari (Iran)1,100 km
  9. 9Aras1,072 km
  10. 10Karun950 km
  11. 11Karkheh870 km
  12. 12Sakarya824 km
  13. 13Murat722 km
  14. 14Sefid Rud670 km
  15. 15Orontes571 km
  16. 16Seyhan560 km
  17. 17Great Menderes River548 km
  18. 18Yeşilırmak519 km
  19. 19Dez515 km
  20. 20Maritsa490 km
  21. 21Zohreh490 km
  22. 22Khabur486 km
  23. 23Ceyhan474 km
  24. 24Great Zab473 km
  25. 25Little Zab456 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 Middle East: 17 countries from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus to Iran and Yemen. 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 the Middle East, 25 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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