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longest rivers

	Outflow	km	mi
^ Flows through Europe and Asia*
Europe
Volga	Caspian Sea	3750	2330
Danube	Black Sea	2859	1770
Ural^*	Caspian Sea	2535	1575
Asia
Yangtze [3]	Pacific Ocean	6300	3900
Yenisey-Angara [5]	Arctic Ocean	5550	3445
Huang He [6]	Pacific Ocean	5500	3400
Ob-lrtysh [7]	Arctic Ocean	5410	3360
Amur [10]	Pacific Ocean	4400	2730
Mekong [9]	Pacific Ocean	4180	2600
Africa
Nile [1]	Mediterranean	6700	4160
Congo (Zaïre) [8]	Atlantic Ocean	4670	2900
Niger	Atlantic Ocean	4180	2600
Zambezi	Indian Ocean	2740	1700
North America
Mississippi-Missouri[4]	Gulf of Mexico	6050	3760
Mackenzie	Arctic Ocean	4240	2630
Missouri	Mississippi	4120	2560
Mississippi	Gulf of Mexico	3780	2350
Yukon	Pacific Ocean	3185	1980
Rio Grande	Gulf of Mexico	3030	1880
Arkansas	Mississippi	2335	1450
Colorado	Pacific Ocean	2333	1450
South America
Amazon [2]	Atlantic Ocean	6430	3990
Paraná-Plata	Atlantic Ocean	4000	2400
Purus	Amazon	3350	2080
Madeira	Amazon	3200	1990
Sao Francisco	Atlantic Ocean	2900	1800
Australia
Murray-Darling	Southern Ocean	3750	2830
Darling	Murray	3070	1905
Murray	Southern Ocean	2575	1600
Murrumbidgee	Murray	1690	1050

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