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| Fascinating river data. If you fill your bath right up to the very top it will hold roughly 1 cubic metre of water. So the Amazon empties 180,000 baths per second into the sea!! |
| We haven't included all the rivers. Try and find them on an Atlas. Which river do you think is only waist deep when it reaches the sea? What is special about the River Volga ( you'll have to look at an Atlas) ? Why do you think the Amazon and the Congo have the highest flow rates? |
| River Name | Location | Length (miles approx) | Length (km approx) | Drainage
Area (sq miles) |
Flow at
mouth (cubic m per second) |
| Nile | Africa | 4,180 | 6,668 | 1,170,000 | 1,584 |
| Amazon | South America | 3,920 | 6,272 | 2,270,000 | 180,000 |
| Yangtze | Asia (China) | 3,900 | 6,240 | 698,000 | 35,000 |
| Mississippi/Missouri | USA | 3,870 | 6,192 | 1,247,000 | 17,545 |
| Ob | Asia (Russia) | 3,459 | 5,534 | 1,154,000 | 12,600 |
| Yenisei/Angara | Asia (Russia) | 3,440 | 5,504 | 996,000 | 19,600 |
| Yellow River | Asia (China) | 3,440 | 5,504 | 290,000 | 1,365 |
| Congo | Africa (Zaire) | 2,900 | 4,640 | 1,440,000 | 42,000 |
| Amur | Asia | 2,800 | 4,480 | 730,000 | 12,500 |
| Parana | Uruguay | 2,795 | 4,472 | 1,197,000 | 19,500 |
| Lena | Asia (Russia) | 2,700 | 4,320 | 961,000 | 16,400 |
| Mackenzie | North America | 2,640 | 4,224 | 697,000 | 7,500 |
| Niger | Africa | 2,600 | 4,160 | 850,000 | 5,700 |
| Mekong | Asia | 2,500 | 4,000 | 750,000 | 15,900 |
| Volga | Europe | 2,300 | 3,680 | 533,000 | 8,000 |
| Murray-Darling | Australia | 2,300 | 3,680 | 410,000 | 391 |
| Rio-Grande | USA | 1,885 | 3,016 | 310,000 | 82 |