Did you ever wonder which are the longest rivers in the world?

By David McClelland

I've wondered about this for some time and finally did the research.
It turns out that, of the top 25 longest rivers in the world, only three (3) are in or adjacent to the United States; i.e., the Mississippi-Missouri in the central U.S., the Rio Grande, beginning in Colorado and continuing along the Texas-Mexico border and the Yukon in Alaska and Canada. Those U.S. rivers are 3,870 miles, 1,900 miles and 1,980 mile long, respectively.

The longest two on each of the other continents are:
Africa: the Nile, at 4,135 miles is the longest in the world and the Niger, at 2,590 miles.
South America: the Amazon, at 3,980 miles and the Parana, at 2,485 miles.
Australia: the Murray-Darling, at 2,094 miles (the only one in the top 25.)
Asia: the Chang Jiang (Yangtze), at 3,917 miles and the Huang He, at 3,395 miles.
Europe: the Yenisey, at 3,434 miles and the Ob-Irtysh, at 3,354 miles.

The longest river, the Nile, runs through Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. The Amazon runs through Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Guyana in South America.

You could sail all day and never get near the other end of either of these two rivers.