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This is a list of the largest drainage basins in the world. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with List of drainage basins. ... For the term related to television programmes, see watershed (television). ...

1. Amazon River - 6,144,727 km²
2. Congo River - 3,730,474 km²
3. Nile River - 3,254,555 km²
4. Mississippi River - 3,202,230 km²
5. Ob River - 2,972,497 km²
6. Paraná River - 2,582,672 km&sup2
7. Yenisei River - 2,554,482 km²
8. Lake Chad - 2,497,918 km²
9. Lena River - 2,306,772 km²
10. Niger River - 2,261,763 km²
11. Amur River - 1,929,981 km²
12. Mackenzie River - 1,743,058 km²
13. Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) - 1,722,155 km²
14. Volga River - 1,410,994 km²
15. Caspian Sea - 1,400,000 km²
16. Zambezi River - 1,332,574 km²
17. Lake Eyre Basin - 1,200,000 km²
18. Tarim River - 1,152,447 km²
19. Nelson River - 1,093,442 km²
20. Indus River - 1,081,733 km²
21. Murray-Darling Basin - 1,072,000 km²
22. St. Lawrence River - 1,049,621 km²
23. Ganges River - 1,016,104 km²
24. Great Slave Lake - 976,200 km²
25. Orinoco River - 953,598 km²
26. Huang He - 945,065 km²
27. Orange River - 941,421 km²
28. Yukon River - 847,642 km²
29. Mekong River - 805,627 km²
30. Danube River - 795,686 km²
31. Syr Darya - 782,669 km²
32. Tigris-Euphrates Rivers - 765,831 km²
33. Tocantins River - 764,183 km²
34. Okavango River - 721,277 km²
35. Colorado River - 703,132 km²
36. Kolyma River - 679,908 km²
37. Columbia River - 657,490 km²
38. Brahmaputra River - 651,334 km²
39. São Francisco River - 617,812 km²
40. Rio Grande - 608,023 km²
41. Lake Baikal - 571,000.00 km²
42. Amu Darya - 534,764 km²
43. Dnieper River - 531,817 km²
44. Lake Balkhash - 512,010 km²

Length >6,400 km Elevation of the source 5,597 m Average discharge 219,000 m³/s Area watershed 6,915,000 km² Origin  Nevado Mismi Mouth  Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Brazil (62. ... Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA; the Congo River is visible in the center of the photograph Length 4,380 km Elevation of the source  m Average discharge 41,800 m³/s Area watershed 3,680,000 km² Origin   Mouth  Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Dem. ... There is also Nile, a death metal band from South Carolina, USA. The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The... Length 6,270 km Elevation of the source 450 m Average discharge Saint Louis¹: 5,500 m³/s Vicksburg²: 16,800 m³/s Baton Rouge³: 12,800 m³/s Area watershed 2,980,000 km² Origin  Lake Itasca Mouth  Gulf of Mexico Basin countries United States (98. ... Обь Length - measured from the river-head of the Katun - 3650 km - measured from the river-head of the Irtysh - 5410 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 12,500 m³/s Area watershed 2,930,000 km² Origin  Altai Krai Mouth  Karskoe Sea Basin countries Russia This article is... Overlooking the Paraná River from Encarnación, Paraguay. ... Енисей Length 5,550 (4,102) km Elevation of the source m Average discharge 19,600 m³/s Area watershed 2,580,000 km² Origin  ? Mouth Arctic Ocean Basin countries Russia The Yenisei basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Yenisei (Енисе́й) is a river... Lake Chad (in French: Lac Tchad) is a large, shallow lake in Africa. ... This article is about the Lena river. ... Map of Niger river. ... The Amur (Russian: Амур; Simplified Chinese: 黑龙江, Traditional Chinese: 黑龍江, HÄ“ilóng Jiāng, or Black Dragon River; Mongolian: Хара-Мурэн, Khara-Muren or Black River; Manchu: Sahaliyan Ula, literal meaning Black River) is one of the world’s ten longest rivers, located between the Russian Far East and Manchuria of China. ... ... Length 6,380 km Elevation of the source  ? m Average discharge 31,900 m³/s Area watershed 1,800,000 km² Origin Qinghai Province and Tibet Mouth East China Sea Basin countries China The Yangtze River (Chinese: 扬子江; pinyin: ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the... Volga in Yaroslavl (autumn morning) Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge 8,000 m³/s Area watershed 1. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea or Mazandaran Sea is a landlocked sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). ... Length 2,574 km Elevation of the source 1,500 m Average discharge 7,000 m³/s Area watershed 1,570,000 km² Origin  Near Mwinilunga, Zambia Mouth  Indian Ocean Basin countries Zambia, Congo, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in... The Lake Eyre Basin drains about one sixth of Australia. ... The Tarim River (Mandarin Dayan) is the principal river of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. ... The Indus (Sindh darya), known as Sindhu to Indians and in Sanskrit, as Sinthos in Greek, and Sindus in Latin, is the principal river of Pakistan. ... Semi-arid grazing country near Burra Creek, South Australia The Murray-Darling Basin drains one-seventh of Australia and is by far the most significant agricultural area on that continent. ... The Saint Lawrence River (French fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ... Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ... This page is about the Orinoco River, for the Aphra Behn novel see Oroonoko With a length of 2140 km, the Orinoco is one of the largest rivers of South America. ... For other Yellow Rivers, see Yellow River (disambiguation). ... The Orange River is the largest river of South Africa. ... Map of the Yukon River watershed The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. ... View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ... Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078 m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 m³/s Vienna: 1,900 m³/s Budapest: 2,350 m³/s just before Delta: 6,500 m³/s Area watershed 817,000 km² Origin Black Forest (Schwarzwald-Baar, Baden- Württemberg, Germany... Syr Darya (also known as Syrdarya or Sirdaryo) is a river in Central Asia. ... Tigris River in Mosul, Iraq The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Aramaic Assyrian: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; Hebrew: חידקל; biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq. ... Length 2,800 km Elevation of the source 4,500 m Average discharge 818 m³/s Area watershed 765,831 km² Origin  Eastern Turkey Mouth  Shatt al Arab Basin countries Turkey Syria Iraq Boat on the Shatt-al-Arab The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is... The Tocantins is a river, the central fluvial artery of Brazil. ... The Okavango River is a river in southwest Africa. ... Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. ... The Kolyma River (Колыма́) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Republic of Sakha, Chukotka, and Magadan oblast. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Brahmaputra The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia. ... Rio São Francisco is a river in Brazil with a length of 3,160 kilometres. ... The Rio Grande flowing past Albuquerque Rio Grande by Big Bend National Park,Texas Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (or, more formally, the Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico, the river rises in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, USA, flows... Lake Baikal The Yenisei River basin, Lake Baikal, and the cities of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on the southeast, near Irkutsk. ... The Amu Darya (Darya means river) rises in the Pamirs and flows mainly north-west through the Hindu Kush, Uzbekistan to join the Aral Sea in a large delta. ... Length 2,290 km Elevation of the source - m Average discharge 1670 m³/s Area watershed 516,300 km² Origin Russia Mouth Black Sea Basin countries Russia, Belarus, Ukraine The Dnieper River (Russian: Днепр/Dnepr; Belarusian: Дняпро/Dnyapro; Ukrainian: Дніпро/Dnipro) is a river (2,290 km length) which flows from Russia through... Lake Balkhash from space, April 1991 Lake Balkhash: NASA image, taken 18 April 2000 by SeaWiFS Lake Balkhash (sometimes written as Lake Balqash) is a large lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, the second largest in Central Asia after the Aral Sea. ...

External links

• Links to maps of watersheds
• Lake database