Longest rivers in the world — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of longest rivers in the world, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
By length. The Nile–Amazon order is genuinely disputed.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Nile
- Amazon
- Yangtze
- Mississippi
- Yenisei
- Yellow River
- Ob
- Parana
- Congo
- Amur
- Lena
- Mekong
- Mackenzie
- Niger
- Brahmaputra
- Murray
- Tocantins
- Volga
- Shatt al-Arab
- Madeira
- Purus
- Yukon
- Indus
- Sao Francisco
- Syr Darya
- Salween
- Saint Lawrence
- Rio Grande
- Lower Tunguska
- Colorado
- Danube
- Irrawaddy
- Zambezi
- Vilyuy
- Padma
- Amu Darya
- Japura
- Nelson
- Paraguay
- Kolyma
- Pilcomayo
- Upper Ob
- Ishim
- Orange
- Ural
- Jurua
- Arkansas
- Songhua
- Olenyok
- Dnieper
- Aldan
- Ubangi
- Negro
- Columbia
- Tapajos
- Pearl
- Red River
- Kasai
- Ohio
- Orinoco
- Tarim
- Xingu
- Jubba
- Brazos
- Northern Salado
- Ica
- Vitim
- Chenab
- Tigris
- Don
- Stony Tunguska
- Pechora
- Kama
- Limpopo
- Chulym
- Guaviare
- Maranon
- Indigirka
- Platte
- Senegal
- Khatanga
- Upper Jubba
- Uruguay
- Churchill
- Blue Nile
- Okavango
- Volta
- Beni
- Shilka
- Tobol
- Alazeya
- Kafue
- Yalong
- Magdalena
- Han
- Kura
- Oka
- Upper Murray
- Yana
- Pecos
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