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50 best known rivers in the world

50 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. 1Nile
  2. 2Amazon
  3. 3Danube
  4. 4Rhine
  5. 5Volga
  6. 6Mississippi
  7. 7Ganges
  8. 8Congo
  9. 9Yangtze
  10. 10Indus
  11. 11Niger
  12. 12Yellow River
  13. 13Euphrates
  14. 14Seine
  15. 15Tigris
  16. 16Thames
  17. 17Dnieper
  18. 18Jordan
  19. 19Elbe
  20. 20Mekong
  21. 21Vistula
  22. 22Amur
  23. 23Brahmaputra
  24. 24Lena
  25. 25Ob
  26. 26Ural
  27. 27Zambezi
  28. 28Don
  29. 29Missouri
  30. 30Loire
  31. 31Po
  32. 32Oder
  33. 33Rhône
  34. 34Dniester
  35. 35St. Lawrence
  36. 36Tiber
  37. 37Yenisei
  38. 38Amu Darya
  39. 39Orinoco
  40. 40Tagus
  41. 41Colorado
  42. 42Yamuna
  43. 43Neva
  44. 44Irtysh
  45. 45Blue Nile
  46. 46Daugava
  47. 47Meuse
  48. 48Syr Darya
  49. 49Yukon
  50. 50Hudson

How well known each river is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). A river known far beyond its country has articles in many languages. 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. Rivers in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica.

On the map

Map of 50 best known rivers in the world, 50 rivers: each one marked on the globe

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