What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 1

The River Nile in Africa is the world's longest river. It has an amazing length of 6,695 km (4,180 mi).The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the former being the longer of the two. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source in southern Rwanda and flows north from there through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and southern Sudan, while the Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, flowing into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

The northern section of the river flows almost entirely through desert, from Sudan into Egypt, a country whose civilization has depended on the river since ancient times. Nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along the banks of the river.


The Nile ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

It would be fair to say that the Nile is the longest in the world, while the Amazon is the strongest.

Answer 2

The Nile River is the longest in the world and runs 4,037 miles long or 6,497 km.'s from East Africa flowing from Lake Victoria in Uganda N. into the Mediterranean in Egypt.
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Answer 3

Nile. It has got it's name so because it flows through 9 countries. It is 6,695 kilometres in length. Other facts:-

Longest river - Nile
Largest Water System - Mississipi-Missouri
Largest Water discharging river - Amazon (it discharges 116 tons of water into the atlantic every second!!)

Answer 4

I want to say the nile. You should go to google and type "longest river in the world" and get the answer yourself.

Answer 5

The Nile in Egypt, 4,160 miles long.
The Amazon is the largest river in the world in terms of volume.

Answer 6

the Amazon river is the longest river. it goes from anywhere between 6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long.

Answer 7

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/geography/longestriverstable.htm


go there for list of top 25 longest rivers...

Nile is longest

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length

The Nile is largely stated as the largest but there are variables that depending on which basis you use for judgement, which river is the longest.

Answer 9

Nile along length
amazon according to volume

Answer 10

Yep. Nile