What river is longer than 3000 miles?
What river is longer than 3000 miles? In a bold act of American patriotism, the “Missouri and Mississippi” clocks in at #1, listed at an estimated 4,490 miles in length. The Amazon comes in 2nd at 3,795 and the Nile is in 5th place with 3,200 miles. Detail of “Mountains and Rivers” from Johnson's new illustrated family atlas, A.J.
What are the 5 longest rivers in the world?
A detailed description of the top 10 longest rivers in the world:
- Nile River- (length- 6650 Km) ...
- The Amazon River- (length- 6575 Km) ...
- The Yangtze River- (length-6300 Km) ...
- The Mississippi River- (length- 6275Km) ...
- The Yenisei River- (length-5539 Km) ...
- The Yellow River- (length- 5464 Km) ...
- The Ob-Irtysh River- (length- 5410 Km)
Is Amazon or Nile longer?
The Encyclopedia Britannica gives the length of the Nile as 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles), to 6,400 kilometers (3,977 miles) for the Amazon, measuring the latter from the headwaters of the Apurimac river in southern Peru.