Major rivers of the world

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In the given table the list of major rivers of the world is provided:

Name of river	Source, and Countries in the drainage system	Empty in
Nile river (The longest river in the world)	Lake Tana (Blue Nile), and Lake Victoria (White Nile) The main countries in the drainage basin are Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt	Mediterranean Sea
Amazon River (Maximum drainage)	Andes Mountains in Peru and Ecuador through country Brazil	Atlantic Ocean
The Yangtze or Chang Jiang The longest river in Asia	China (Rises at Jari Hills in the Tanggula Mountains)	East China Sea
Mississippi – Missouri The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of the Eastern Centennial Mountains of South-western Montana	Source – Lake – Itasca United States (98.5%), Canada (1.5%)	Gulf of Mexico
Yenisei the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean	Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia Countries- Russia 97% and Magnolia 2.95%	Kara Sea
Yellow River (Huang He) The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China	China	Bohai Sea
Ob Irtysh	Russia, China, and Kazakhstan	Gulf of Ob
River Plate (The Río de la Plata or La Plata River)	Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay	Río de la Plata
Zaire (Congo-Chambeshi River)	Source- Cambeshi River of Northeastern Zambia Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda	Atlantic Ocean
Amur (Forms border between Russian Far East and North-eastern China)	Russia, Mangolia, China	Sea of Okhotsk
Lena	Source- Lake Baikal (Baikal Mountains) Russia	Laptev Sea
Mekong River Trans-boundary rivers in East Asia and Southeast Asia The sixth-longest river in Asia The river is a Trade route between Western China and Southeast Asia	Rises from Tibetan Plateau Countries- China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam	South China Sea
Niger The River of West Africa	Source- Guinea Highlands Countries- Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Algeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad	Gulf of Guinea
Brahmaputra Also called- Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, Siang, or Dihang River in Arunachal Pradesh The river is a transboundary river	Originates from Mansarovar Lake, near Mount Kailash, Tibet, Countries- India, China, Nepal, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan	Ganges
Murray-Darling Murray is the longest river in Australia	Australian Alps (Murray), New South Wales (Darling) Australia	Southern Ocean
Volga Longest River in Europe Situated in Russia	Russia	Caspian Sea
Indus Transboundary river of Asia, a trans – Himalayan river of South and Central Asia	Source- Western Tibet Pakistan (93%), India, and China	Arabian Sea
Purus Tributary of the Amazon River in South America	Brazil, Peru	Amazon
Irawadi	Northern Myanmar	Andaman Sea
San Francisco	Brazil	Atlantic Ocean
Salween	China, Myanmar, Thailand	Andaman Sea
Danube The second-longest river in Europe	Romania, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Germany, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ukraine	Black Sea
Zambezi The fourth-longest river in Africa	Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana	Mozambique Channel
Paraguay River The major river in South-central South America	Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina	Parana
Ural Also called Yaik	The Ural arises near Mount Kruglaya in the Ural Mountains Russia, Kazakhstan	Caspian Sea
Dnieper One of the major rivers of Europe	Rising in Valdai Hills, Russia Countries- Ukraine, Belarus, Russia	Black Sea
Negro (Rio Negro, Guainia) Largest left tributary of river Amazon. The largest Blackwater river in the world	Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia	Amazon
Orinoco One of the longest rivers in South America	Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana	Atlantic Ocean
Limpopo	Rises in South Africa Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana	Indian Ocean
Volta River West African River	Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin	Gulf of Guinea
Rhine One of the major rivers in Europe	Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Italy	North Sea

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