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Rivers

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.

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Volga

Water bodies; Rivers

The largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. It rises in the Valdai Hills northwest ...

Murray

Water bodies; Rivers

The river drains one-seventh of the Australian land mass, and is currently by far the most significant agricultural area in Australia. It spans most of the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and ...

Missouri

Water bodies; Rivers

A major river of central North America, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river on the continent at over 2,340 miles (3,770 km) and the second largest tributary of the ...

Paraná

Water bodies; Rivers

A river of South America, the second longest after the Amazon, rising on the plateau of southeast-central Brazil and flowing generally south to the point where, after a course of 3,032 miles (4,880 ...

Yenisey

Water bodies; Rivers

Also spelled Yenisei or Enisei, Evenk Ioanesi (“Great River”), River, central Russia is one of the longest rivers in Asia, it rises in the borderland of south-central Russia and Mongolia and flows ...

Niger

Water bodies; Rivers

The third longest on the African continent , it rises in Guinea near the Sierra Leone border and flows into Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. It is 2,600 mi (4,183 sq km) long, and its middle course is ...

Mekong

Water bodies; Rivers

One of the world's great rivers. It is the world's 10th-longest river and the 7th-longest in Asia. Rising in southern Qinghai province, China, it flows south through eastern Tibet and across the ...

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