Top 10 Longest Rivers in the world

Take a look at our directory featuring the top ten longest rivers on this planet. Some people as well as scientists agree on this order. But effectively measuring the length of such huge rivers is usually difficult as well as there is sometimes difference about where a river starts, where it ends and its accurate length.

1. Nile – Kagera

Lenght (km) : 6,650
Lenght (miles) : 4,132
Countries : Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan

The river Nile, Cairo, Egypt. by Fakharany

2. Amazon – Ucayali – Apurímac

Lenght (km) : 6,400
Lenght (miles) : 3,976
Countries : Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana

Amazon river, by Jökulsá a Fjöllum

3. Yangtze

Lenght (km) : 6,300
Lenght (miles) : 3,917
Countries : China

YangTze river, by Gabriele Battaglia

4. Mississippi–Missouri–Jefferson

Lenght (km) : 6,275
Lenght (miles) : 3,902
Countries : United States (98.5%), Canada (1.5%)

Mississippi River at Natchez, by Paul Everett

5. Yenisei–Angara–Selenge

Lenght (km) : 5,539
Lenght (miles) : 3,445
Countries : Russia (97%), Mongolia (2.9%)

Angara River At Irkutsk by Jim Linwood

6. Yellow River

Lenght (km) : 5,464
Lenght (miles) : 3,395
Countries : China

Yellow-River-Yanan-Shaanxi-China, by  ビッグアップジャパン

7. Ob–Irtysh

Lenght (km) : 5,410
Lenght (miles) : 3,364
Countries : Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia

River Irtish in Omsk. Russia by Petar Milošević

8. Paraná – Río de la Plata

Lenght (km) : 4,880
Lenght (miles) : 3,030
Countries : Brazil (46.7%), Argentina (27.7%), Paraguay (13.5%), Bolivia (8.3%), Uruguay (3.8%)

Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires PD

9. Congo–Chambeshi

Lenght (km) : 4,700
Lenght (miles) : 2,922
Countries : Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda

Congo River in Kinshasa, PD

10. Amur–Argun

Lenght (km) : 4,444
Lenght (miles) : 2,763
Countries : Russia, China, Mongolia

Amur near Verkhnaya Ekon, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, by Ondřej Žváček