WORLD RIVERS

31 December 2020
16:24

BLACK SEA → Danube, Dnieper, Don, Dniester, Kuban, Southern Bug, Rioni, Kamchia

CASPIAN SEA → Volga, Ural, Terek

BALTIC SEA → Oder, Vistula, Neman, Neva, Daugava

MEDITERRANEAN → Rhone, Po, Ebro, Tiber, Neretva, Nile

INDIAN → Zambezi, Shat al Arab/Arvandrud, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy,

Limpopo

ARCTIC → Mackenzie, Yukon, Ob, Yenisei, Lena

ASIA
River Origin/Source Drains into/Mouth Cities located
Indus Bokhar Chu Glacier in Arabian Sea
Tibetan range (Kailash
range)
Brahmaputra Chemayungdung Glacier Bay of Bengal
near Mansarovar of Kailash
range
Ganga Gangotri glacier near Ganges delta in Bay of
Gaumukh (UK), here it is Bengal
known as Bhagirathi.
Hwang Ho Bayan Har mountains in Bohai sea/Bo sea -
(Yellow river) Qinghai province. Yellow sea
2nd longest river in China
Yangtze river Tanggula mountains in East China sea Shanghai
Qinghai
Longest river in China
Mekong Tibetan Plateau, Cochin China (South Vientiane (Laos),
longest river of SE Asia, China sea) Phnom Penh
lifeline of Cambodia. (Cambodia)
It separates Laos from
Thailand
Hong (Red Southwest China Gulf of Tonkin - Hanoi (Vietnam)
River) Vietnam
Chao Phraya Northern Thailand Gulf of Thailand - Bangkok
(Menam) South China sea - (Thailand)
Pacific
Irrawaddy Myanmar, bordering Tibet. Indian Ocean Yangon,
It's tributary is Chindwin in Mandalay
India, rice bowl of Myanmar
Salween Tibet - north of Lhasa Gulf of Mottama
(Martaban) in
Andaman sea
Euphrates Armenian highlands (Murat Shatt Al Arab Ar Ramadi, An
river) in Turkey Nasiriah
Tigris Hazar Lake. Shatt Al Arab Mosul and
Tigris combines with Baghdad, Basra is
Euphrates in lower course on Shatt Al Arab
Jordan river Mt Hermon in Lebanon and Hula valley, north of
Golan heights (Syria, Israel sea of Galilee of Israel
occupied)
Karun River Zagros mountains, Largest Shatt Al Arab Ahvaz
river of Iran

Yalu river forms a border between Russia and North Korea

RUSSIA
River Origin/Source Drains into/Mouth Cities located
Don Novomoskovsk in Russia Sea of Azov - Black Rostov
Sea
Volga Valdai hills in Russia Caspian sea It is the longest river in Europe.
Its catchment area is entirely
inside Russia.
Ob- Altai Mountains, near Kara sea, Arctic
Irtysh China-Mongolia border
Lena Lake Baikal Arctic ocean Yakutsk
Yenisei Mongolia Kara sea, Arctic
Amur China Sea of Okhotsk - Russia, China
Pacific Ocean
Terek Mount Kazbek in Georgia Caspian sea Georgia, Russia

Amu Darya is different, it's in Afghanistan

EUROPE

River Source Mouth Cities

Ebro Cantabrian Range Mediterranean Sea
Rhone Rhone glacier - Swiss Mediterranean Sea Lyon, Geneva
Alps
Po Cottian Alps Mediterranean Sea Milan
(Adriatic)
Douro Iberian Peninsula Atlantic Ocean
Tagus Iberian Peninsula Atlantic Ocean Toledo
Garonne Pyrenees (Spain and Atlantic Ocean Bordeaux
France)
Loire Mont Gerbier De Jonc Atlantic Ocean
Seine Source - Seine Atlantic Ocean Paris, Port Le Havre
Rhine Swiss Alps North Sea - Atlantic Basel, Strasbourg, Cologne,
Ocean Amsterdam, Frankfurt
Elbe Giant Mountains North Sea - Atlantic Berlin
Ocean
Oder Czech Republic Baltic Sea - Atlantic
Ocean
Vistula Poland Baltic Sea - Atlantic Warsaw, Krakow
Ocean
Danube Black Forest - Germany Danube Delta - Black Budapest, Vienna, Belgrade
2nd longest river of Sea Countries - Germany,
Europe after Volga of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary,
Russia Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria,
It passes through 10 Romania, Moldova, Ukraine
countries.
Dniester Carpathian Mountains Black Sea Ukraine and Moldova
Don Novomoskovsk in Russia Sea of Azov - Black Rostov
Sea
Dnieper Valdai Hills Black Sea Kiev.
Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Thames North Sea
AFRICA

Lake Victoria is not a part of rift valley, other lakes are.

River Origin/Source Mouth Cities

Nile White Nile from lake Victoria + Mediterranean Sea Cairo, Khartoum.
Blue Nile from Lake Tana in Port Said and
Ethiopia. Alexandria at
Longest river of the world mouth
Congo/Zaire Lake Tanganyika + Lake Mweru. Atlantic ocean Kinshasa (DRC),
river It crosses Equator twice. Brazzaville
(Congo)
 It is the 2nd largest river in the
world (volume) after Amazon.
Zambezi Mwinilunga in Zambia. Indian Ocean
Victoria falls located on it.
Limpopo South Africa. Indian Ocean
Passes tropic of Capricorn twice
Niger Guinea Highlands Gulf of Guinea, Timbuktu,
Atlantic Ocean Bamako (Both in
Mali)
Orange Drakensberg in Lesotho Atlantic Ocean

NORTH AMERICA

River Source Mouth Cities/Places

Columbia - Columbia Lake in British Pacific Ocean Portland, Vancouver
Snake Columbia in Canada
Colorado La Poudre Pass lake in Gulf of California - Austin, Grand
Rocky Mountains in Pacific Ocean Canyon, Sonoran
Colorado Desert, Hoover Dam
Rio Grande Rio Grande national Gulf of Mexico - El Paso,
forest, Colorado. Atlantic Ocean Albuquerque, Juarez
It forms part of US-
Mexico border
Missouri Brower's spring in Mississippi River Kansas City,
Montana Bismarck
Mississippi Lake Itasca in Minnesota Gulf of Mexico - Minneapolis, New
Atlantic Ocean Orleans, Memphis
Hudson Lake tear of the clouds, New York Bay - New York, Albany,
New York Atlantic Ocean New Jersey
St. Lawrence Lake Ontario Gulf of St. Lawrence - Quebec, Montreal
Atlantic Ocean
Mackenzie Great Slave Lake Arctic Ocean
Yukon Bering Sea

SOUTH AMERICA

River Source Mouth Cities

Amazon Mantaro river in Peru. Atlantic Ocean Brazil, Peru, Colombia
Largest river by volume
Parana Rio De Plata - Atlantic Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Ocean
Uruguay It merges with Parana Rio De Plata - Atlantic
Ocean
Orinoco Parima mountains in Atlantic Ocean Venezuela, Colombia and
Venezuela northern Brazil
AUSTRALIA

River Source Mouth

Murray Australian Alps Murray mouth lookout, Southern Ocean
Largest river
Darling Great dividing range Murray River

Great Lakes of USA

SMHEO - Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario