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9 longest rivers of the Ural basin

9 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. 1Ural2,428 km
  2. 2Sakmara798 km
  3. 3Ilek623 km
  4. 4Bolshoy Ik341 km
  5. 5Or River332 km
  6. 6Utva290 km
  7. 7Shagan264 km
  8. 8Bolshoy Kumak212 km
  9. 9Gumbeyka202 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. Rivers in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica. The Ural basin: the Ural and every river here that flows into it, directly or through other rivers and lakes, following where Wikidata says each river flows (P403) downstream.

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