Most important rivers in the world

Most important rivers in the world

Some of the most important rivers in the world are presented in this template. Create your own copy and complete it with details about those rivers in order to retain the information easier.

Some examples of important rivers from the world are Mississippi, Amazon, Nile, Zambezi, Mekong, Yangtze, Danube, Volga, etc.

Most Important Rivers In The World

Rivers have always been essential for human life and settlement. A source for drinking, the source of food, and a way to transfer goods from one place to another. They are essential in the environment of rainforest and wetlands.

Asia

The Yangtze holds the title of Asia’s longest river. The Yangtze has a momentous place in China’s history and culture, providing some of the country’s most fertile land as well as some of its most artistically inspiring scenery.

Where the Mekong river runs, the land is incredibly verdant shaping one of the richest areas of biodiversity on the planet. Thousands of species call its shores and waters home. Long an essential trade route the Mekong passes through, or close to, some of the region’s most important cities, including Vientiane, Phnom Penh and Saigon.

Mekong

The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km.

From the Tibetan Plateau, the river runs through China's Yunnan Province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The Mekong rises as the Za Qu and soon becomes known as the Lancang (Lantsang) in the 'Three Rivers Source Area' on the Tibetan Plateau in the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve. It approaches and empties into the sea through the Mekong Delta. Tributaries: Nam Khan, Tha, Nam Ou, Mun, Tonle Sap, Kok, Ruak.

The Mekong basin is one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world which is only surpassed by the Amazon?

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Mekong River has many tributaries. Type in at least 3 of its affluents.

Where is the place where Mekong drains into a larger body of water ? Type in the answer.

Mouth of Mekong

Where is the original point from which Mekong flows? Type in the answer.

Source of Mekong

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Which countries does the Mekong flow through?

Mekong River flows through 6 countries. Type them in.

Yangtze

The Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Asia and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country (Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai provinces). It rises in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau and flows 6,300 km in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea.

Tributaries: Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han, Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu.
In mid-2014, the Chinese government announced it was building a multi-tier transport network, comprising railways, roads, and airports, to create a new economic belt alongside the river.

The grain produced in the Yangtze River Basin, 70% of which is rice, is enough for half of the nation?

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The Yangtze River has over 700 tributaries. Type in some of its major affluents.

Where is the place where Yangtze drains into a larger body of water ? Type in the answer.

Mouth of Yangtze River

Where is the original point from which Yangtze flows? Type in the answer.

Source of Yangtze River

Length of Yangtze River

Which provinces does Yangtze flow through?

Yangtze River flows through 9 provinces in China. Type at least 5 of them.

Province

Europe

The Volga is the longest river in Europe. The waters of the Volga are used to irrigate the steppe regions of southern Russia. Because of its importance in the country, the Volga has mythological status in Russia, and many iconic sites are found along its banks

The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe. Travelers can experience many of the river's sights by embarking on a cruise along its waterways. Danube River Cruises, which are offered by Viking Cruises, typically stop in Cologne, Budapest, Nuremberg, Belgrade and Krems. Following the river is a way to experience several Eastern European cities in one trip. Famous monuments, such as the Hungarian Parliament, have been erected on its coast.

Danube

The Danube is located in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Danube flows through 10 countries, more than any other river in the world. Originating in the Black Forest in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 2,850 km, passing through or bordering Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. The mouth of the Danube is the Danube Delta. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania, with a small part in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast).
Tributaries :Iller, Lech, Altmühl, Naab, Regen, Isar, Inn, Ilz, Enns, Morava, Rába, Váh, Hron, Ipeľ, Sió, Dráva, Vuka, Tisza, Sava, Tamiš, Great Morava, Mlava, Karaş, Jiu, Iskar, Olt, Osam, Argeș, Ialomița, Siret, Prut.

The Danube is the source of drinking water for almost 10 million people?

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Danube has over 27 tributaries. Remember that a tributary is a stream or river that flows into and joins a main river. Type in the names of some of Danube's tributaries.

This is the place where Danube drains into a larger body of water . Type in the answer.

Mouth of Danube River

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Where is the Danube's source?

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Which countries does the Danube flow through?

Danube River flows through 9 countries in Europe. Type them in.

Volga

The Volga is the longest river in Europe with a catchment area of 1,350,000 square km.
Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, including the capital, Moscow, are located in the Volga's drainage basin. Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 meters above sea level northwest of Moscow and about 320 km southeast of Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east past Lake Sterzh, Tver, Dubna, Rybinsk, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. From there it turns south, flows past Ulyanovsk, Tolyatti, Samara, Saratov, and Volgograd, and discharges into the Caspian Sea.
Tributaries: Kama, Oka, Vetluga, and Sura. The Volga Delta has a length of about 160 kilometers and includes as many as 500 channels and smaller rivers.

The Volga freezes for most of its length during three months each year.

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Volga River has 23 main tributaries. Type in several examples.

This is the place where it drains into a larger body of water - another river, a lake, the sea or the ocean.

Where is the mouth of the Volga River?

The source of a river, also called headwaters, is the original point from which the river flows. Type in Volga's source.

Source of Volga River

Length of Volga River

Which cities does the Volga flow through?

Volga flows through 11 out of the 20 most important cities in Russia. Type in a couple of these cities.

City

Africa

There are four major rivers in Africa: the Nile, the Zambezi, the Congo, and the Niger. The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world.

The Zambezi's most noted feature is Victoria Falls. Other notable falls include the Chavuma Falls at the border between Zambia and Angola, and Ngonye Falls, near Sioma in Western Zambia.

Zambezi

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its basin is 1,390,000 square km.

The 2,574-km-long river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.
Major tributaries: Chifumage River, Luena River, Kabompo River, Lungwebungu River, Luanginga River, Gwayi River, Sengwa River, Sanyati River, Kafue River, Luangwa River, Panhane River, Luia River.

In 1498 Vasco da Gama became the first European to see the Zambezi River? He called it the 'River of Good Omens' ('Rio dos Bons Sinais').

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The Zambezi has numerous tributaries. Type is some of its major affluents.

Where is the place where Zambezi drains into a larger body of water ? Type in the answer.

Where is the mouth of Zambezi River?

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Source of Zambezi River

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Which countries does the Zambezi flow through?

Zambezi River flows through 6 countries and 1 republic from Africa. Type them in.

Nile

The Nile, which is about 6,650 km long, covers eleven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan and Egypt.

It has two major tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is the headwaters and primary stream of the Nile. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either Rwanda or Burundi. The two rivers meet just north of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows north almost entirely through the Sudanese desert to Egypt, then ends in a large delta and flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Nile Delta region is home to about 40 million people? That is half of Egypt's population.

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The Nile has only 2 tributaries. Type them in.

This is the place where it drains into a larger body of water - another river, a lake, the sea or the ocean.
Where is the mouth of the Nile River?

Where is the mouth of Nile River?

Remember that the source of a river is the original point from which the river flows. There are different types of sources: lake, marsh, spring or glacier.
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Source of Nile River

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Which countries does the Nile flow through?

The Nile flows through 7 countries and 3 republics from Africa. Type them in.

America

North America
In the 18th century, the river was the primary western boundary of the young United States, and since the country's expansion westward, the Mississippi River has been widely considered a convenient dividing line between the Eastern, Southern, Midwestern United States, and the Western United States.

South America
Amazon River, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin.

Amazon

Main tributaries - Marañón, Napo, Japurá/Caquetá, Rio Negro/Guainía, Putumayo, Trombetas, Ucayali, Javary, Juruá, Purús, Madeira, Tapajós, Xingu.

The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6, 437 km (4,000 miles) from the Amazon's headwaters high in the Andes mountains of Peru.

Although the Amazon is such an enormous river, there are no bridges to cross the river along its entire length?

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The Amazon has an impressive number of tributaries - over 1000. Remember that a tributary is a stream or river that flows into and joins the main river.

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The mouth refers to the place where it drains into a larger body of water . Type in the answer.

Where is the mouth of the Amazon River?

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Where is the Amazon's source?

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Which countries does the Amazon flow through?

The Amazon flows through 6 countries from South America. Type them in.

Country

Mississippi

Its source is Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota and it flows generally south for 2,320 miles (3,730 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.

The main stem is entirely within the United States. Tributaries - St. Croix River, Wisconsin River, Rock River, Illinois River, Kaskaskia River, Ohio River, Minnesota River, Des Moines River, Missouri River, White River, Arkansas River.

The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

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The name 'Mississippi' comes from 'misi-ziipi' in the Ojibwe language, which means 'Great River'?

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Tributaries

A tributary, also called an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into and joins a main river. The place where the tributary and the main river meet is called a confluence.
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Tributary

Mouth

The mouth of a river refers to the end of a river, the place where it drains into a larger body of water - another river, a lake, the sea or the ocean.

Where is the mouth of the Mississippi River?

Source

The source of a river, also called headwaters, is the original point from which the river flows. There are different types of sources: lake, marsh, spring or glacier.

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Length

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Which states does the Mississippi flow through?

Mississippi flows through 10 different states, forming the largest delta in North America.

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State