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Basins[edit]

Basin Type Continent Drains to Basin Area
km2 		Basin Area
mi2 		Notes
Amazon River Primary river South America Atlantic Ocean 6,145,186 2,372,670 [1]
Congo River Primary river Africa Atlantic Ocean 3,730,881 1,440,501 [1]
Nile River Primary river Africa Mediterranean Sea 3,254,853 1,256,706 [1]
Mississippi-Missouri River Primary river North America Gulf of Mexico 3,202,185 1,236,371 [1]
Ob River Primary river Asia Arctic Ocean 2,982,493 1,151,547 [1]
Paraná River Primary river South America Río de la Plata 2,582,704 997,188 [1]
Yenisei River Primary river Asia Arctic Ocean 2,554,388 986,255 [1]
Lena River Primary river Asia Arctic Ocean 2,306,743 890,638 [1]
Niger River Primary river Africa Atlantic Ocean 2,261,741 873,263 [1]
Amur River Primary river Asia Pacific Ocean 1,929,955 745,160 [1]
Mackenzie River Primary river North America Beaufort Sea 1,805,200 697,000 [2]
Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) Primary river Asia Pacific Ocean 1,722,193 664,942 [1]
Meghna-Padma-Ganges–Brahmaputra River Primary river Asia Bay of Bengal 1,621,000 626,000 [3]
Volga River Primary river Europe Caspian Sea 1,410,951 544,771 [1]
Zambezi River Primary river Africa Indian Ocean 1,332,574 514,510 [4]
Indus River Primary river Asia Arabian Sea 1,081,718 417,654 [1]
Nelson River Primary river North America Hudson Bay 1,072,300 414,000 [5]
Murray-Darling basin Primary river Australia Southern Ocean 1,050,116 405,452 [1]
St. Lawrence River Primary river North America Atlantic Ocean 1,049,636 405,267 [1]
Orinoco River Primary river South America Atlantic Ocean 953,675 368,216 [1]
Orange River Primary river Africa Atlantic Ocean 941,351 363,458 [1]
Shatt al-Arab (Tigris, Euphrates & Karun) Primary river Asia Persian Gulf 916,200 353,700 [6]
Yukon River Primary river North America Bering Sea 839,200 324,000 [2]
Yellow River Primary river Asia Pacific Ocean 832,238 321,329 [7][Note 1]
Mekong River Primary river Asia Pacific Ocean 805,604 311,045 [1]

Based on List of drainage basins by area

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Watersheds of the World 2005" (PDF). Water Resources eAtlas. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Rivers". The Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  3. ^ Arnold, Guy (2000). World strategic highways. Taylor & Francis. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-57958-098-8.
  4. ^ The Zambezi River Basin, page 6.
  5. ^ "Canada Drainage Basins". The National Atlas of Canada, 5th edition. Natural Resources Canada. 1985. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  6. ^ Tigris Euphrates basin area at Rivers Network
  7. ^ Huang He Delta watershed at Rivers Network.


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