Long River or Yangtze River (Hanzi: 长江, Hanyu pinyin: Changjiang, English: Long River, the Yangtze River) is the longest river in China and in Asia. In the world, Long River is the third longest river. This river into the southern boundary of ancient Chinese culture that lies between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in the north to the south.
This river is known as the Yangtze River (Hanyu pinyin: Yangzi) due to a misunderstanding of the missionaries at first. Yangtze River (Hanzi: 杨子江) refers only to the lower reaches of Yangtze River, but because this is the first heard by the West, it is used to represent the entire Yangtze River Yangtze River.
2. Yenisei River - 5,539 km (3,442 miles)
Yenisei (Russian: Енисей) is the largest river flowing into the Arctic Ocean, and the extension of 5,539 km is the longest river in the world to-5. This river is located in Russia.
In the middle of the river there is a large dam hidroeletkrik. Industrial contamination problem in the region.
In the middle of the river there is a large dam hidroeletkrik. Industrial contamination problem in the region.
3. Yellow River (Huang He) - 5,464 km (3,395 miles)
Yellow River (Hanzi: 黄河, Hanyu Pinyin: Huanghe About this sound listen (help · info), Wade-Giles: Hwangho, English: Yellow River) is an important river in northern China at the center of Chinese culture together the Long River (Yangtze) in the south.
With a length of 5,464 km, this river is the second longest river in China after the Yangtze River.
4. Lena River - 4,400 km (2,734 miles)
The
Lena (Russian: Ле́на, IPA: [ˈlʲenə]; Sakha: Өлүөнэ, Ölüöne) is the
eastern most of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the
Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob River and the Yenisei River).
It is the 11th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest
watershed. It is the greatest river whose watershed is entirely within
Russian territorial boundaries.
5. Mekong River - 4,350 km (2,703 miles)
Mekong (Thai language: แม่น้ำ โขง (Pronunciation)) is one of the major rivers in the world. He is the longest river 12th in the world, and the 10th largest in volume (off 475km³ of water/year), he fills an area of 795,000 km² of Tibet it runs through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam . All except China and Myanmar into the Mekong River Commission. Due to the very different seasonal variations in flow and the presence of "rapid" and waterfalls make navigation very difficult. The Mekong river and is inseparable from the history of nations, especially in Southeast Asia.
6. Irtysh River - 4,248 km (2,640 miles)
Irtysh River is one river located in southern Russia. This river has a length of 4,248 km (2,640 miles). Empties into the three countries like the PRC, Kazakhstan, and Russia. This river is a source of clean water in the two countries. The river freezes in November to March.
7. Ob River - 3,650 km (2,268 miles)
Ob River (Russian: Обь) is a river in western Siberia, Russia. This river has a length of 2,962 km. The main town which empties into the river is Biysk, Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Nizhnevartosk, and Surgut. In the winter, the river freezes from November to April.
8. Nizhnyaya Tunguska River - 2,989 km (1.857 miles)
Nizhnyaya Tunguska (Russian: Ни́жняя Тунгу́ска; IPA: [ˈnʲiʐnʲəjə tʊnˈguskə], meaning Lower Tunguska) is a river in Siberia, Russia, flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The river is a right tributary of the Yenisei joining it at Turukhansk (see Siberian River Routes). Settlements on the river include Tura, Yukti and Simenga. The ice-free period on the Lower Tunguska starts in mid-June and ends in the first half of October.
9. Indus River - 2,900 km (1,800 miles)
Sindhu River (Sanskrit: सिन्धु Sindhu; Urdu: Sindh سندھ; Sindhi: سندھو Sindhu; Punjabi سندھ Sindh; Hindko سندھ Sindh; Avestan: सिन्धु Sindhu; Pashto: آباسن Abasin "Father of Rivers"; Persian: سند "Nilou" "Hindu" ; Arabic: السند "Al-Sindh"; Tibet: སེང་གེ།་གཙང་པོ; Wylie: "Sênggê Zangbo" "Lion River"; (Chinese); Greek: Ινδός Indos; Turkey: Nilab) is now better known with the name of the river Indus is one of the major rivers in India. Located in the vicinity of Punjab which is now divided into two, partly in India and partly in Pakistan. For the Greeks this river has a special history as in the core of the ancient Vedic civilization and the Indus Valley civilization.
In prehistoric times, in the fertile valley of the Indus civilization are a human. The human civilization that is the Aryans this entry through the cracks of the Hindu Kush mountains and the valley was first settled Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in northwestern India. This is where the birth of the Hindu religion are the root comes from the name of the river Sindhu.
Sindhu river flow itself that the child stream - a tributary of the others then meet and merge into the flow of the river Ganges in northern India.
In prehistoric times, in the fertile valley of the Indus civilization are a human. The human civilization that is the Aryans this entry through the cracks of the Hindu Kush mountains and the valley was first settled Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in northwestern India. This is where the birth of the Hindu religion are the root comes from the name of the river Sindhu.
Sindhu river flow itself that the child stream - a tributary of the others then meet and merge into the flow of the river Ganges in northern India.
10. Brahmaputra River - 2,900 km (1,800 miles)
Brahmaputra is a major river in Asia. In Sanskrit, he means "son of Brahma".
He comes from the western Himalayas in Tibet, in China and flows along the 2.900km to the sea in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. He called Tsangpo in Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh and the afternoon at the main branch is called the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Lauhitya old Sanskrit and called it the Brahmaputra valley called Luit.
The river finally meets the Ganges (called Padma in Bangladesh) and the Meghna rivers to form the largest river deltas in the world, mostly in Bangladesh. He is one of the few rivers in the world that has a tidal bore. Most Indian rivers have female names. But this river has a male name.
Most can be lived boat and the bottom is a sacred place for the Hindus. The river floods during the spring when the Himalayan snows melt.
He comes from the western Himalayas in Tibet, in China and flows along the 2.900km to the sea in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. He called Tsangpo in Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh and the afternoon at the main branch is called the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Lauhitya old Sanskrit and called it the Brahmaputra valley called Luit.
The river finally meets the Ganges (called Padma in Bangladesh) and the Meghna rivers to form the largest river deltas in the world, mostly in Bangladesh. He is one of the few rivers in the world that has a tidal bore. Most Indian rivers have female names. But this river has a male name.
Most can be lived boat and the bottom is a sacred place for the Hindus. The river floods during the spring when the Himalayan snows melt.
Well, if the 10 rivers on the continent are connected into one it will reach the whole world at the equator.
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