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List of longest rivers of Asia, the Glossary

This is a list of longest rivers of Asia.^[1]

110 relations: Afghanistan, Alazeya, Aldan (river), Amga (river), Amu Darya, Amur, Anadyr (river), Angara, Aras (river), Argun (Amur), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barito River, Bhargavi River, Biryusa, Bolshoy Yugan, Brahmaputra River, Cambodia, Chambal River, Chindwin River, Chu (river), Chulym (Ob), Chuna (river), Demyanka, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Iranica, Euphrates, Ganges, Georgia (country), Ghaghara, Godavari River, Hai River, Han River (Hubei and Shaanxi), Hari (Afghanistan), Helmand River, Huai River, Ili River, India, Indigirka, Indonesia, Indus River, Iran, Iraq, Irrawaddy River, Irtysh, Ishim (river), Jialing River, Kama (river), Kapuas River, ... Expand index (60 more) »
Lists of longest rivers
Rivers of Asia

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Alazeya

The Alayeza (r; translit) is a river in the northeastern part of Yakutia, Russia which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger Indigirka to the west and the Kolyma to the east.

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Aldan (river)

The Aldan (Sakha and Алдан) is the second-longest right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia.

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Amga (river)

The Amga (Амга; Амма, Amma) is a river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia.

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The Amu Darya, also called the Amu, the Amo, and historically the Oxus (Latin: Ōxus; Greek: Ὦξος, Ôxos), is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.

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Amur

The Amur River (река Амур) or Heilong River is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, and has a drainage basin of., Great Soviet Encyclopedia If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is long, making it the world's tenth longest river.

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Anadyr (river)

The Anadyr (Ана́дырь; Yukaghir: Онандырь; Йъаайваам) is a river in the far northeast of Siberia which flows into the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

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Angara

The Angara (Ангара́,; Buryat: Ангар, Angar, "Cleft") is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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Aras (river)

The Aras (also known as the Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz) is a river in the Caucasus.

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Argun (Amur)

The Argun or Ergune (Аргунь, Эргэнэ гол, Ergene gol; Эргүнэ мөрөн, Ergüne mörön; Ергэне Yergenye, 额尔古纳河 Éěrgǔnà hé) is a long river that forms part of the eastern China–Russia border, together with the Amur (Heilong Jiang).

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Armenia

Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Barito River

The Barito River is the second longest river in Borneo after the Kapuas River with a total length of and a drainage basin of in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It originates in the Muller Mountain Range, from where it flows southward into the Java Sea. Its most important affluent is the Martapura River, and it passes through the city of Banjarmasin.

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Bhargavi River

Bhargavi River flows across Odisha, India.

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Biryusa

The Biryusa (Бирюса, in its lower reaches also called the Ona) is a river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

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Bolshoy Yugan

The Bolshoy Yugan is a river in Russia, it flows through the territory of Surgutsky and Nefteyugansky Districts of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

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Brahmaputra River

The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet (China), Northeastern India, and Bangladesh.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Chambal River

The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in Central and Northern India, and thus forms part of the drainage system of the Ganges.

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Chindwin River

The Chindwin River (Chindwin Myin), also known as the Ningthi River (Ningthi Turel), is a river flowing entirely in Myanmar, and the largest tributary of the country's main river, the Irrawaddy. Its official name is also spelled Chindwinn.

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Chu (river)

The Chu is a river in Northern Kyrgyzstan and Southern Kazakhstan.

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Chulym (Ob)

The Chulym (Чулым) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Republic of Khakassia, and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob.

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Chuna (river)

The Chuna (Чуна), called Uda (Уда; Үд, Üd) above the settlement of Chunsky, is a river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia.

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Demyanka

The Demyanka (Демьянка) is a river in the Omsk Oblast and Tyumen Oblast, Russia.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Ghaghara

The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and the lower Ghaghara in Awadh is known as the Sarayu River, is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.

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Godavari River

The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%).

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Hai River

The Hai River (海河, lit. "Sea River"), also known as the Peiho, ("White River"), or Hai Ho, is a Chinese river connecting Beijing to Tianjin and the Bohai Sea.

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Han River (Hubei and Shaanxi)

The Han River, also known by its Chinese names Hanshui (汉水) and Han Jiang (汉江), is a major river in Central China.

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Hari (Afghanistan)

The Hari River (or translit; د هري سیند) or Herat River or Tejen River or Harirud is a river flowing from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it forms the Tejen oasis and disappears in the Karakum Desert.

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Helmand River

The Helmand (also spelled Helmend, or Helmund, Hirmand; Pashto/Persian: هیرمند / هلمند; Greek: Ἐτύμανδρος, Etýmandros; Latin: Erymandrus) is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin.

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Huai River

The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of.

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Ili River

The Ili River (ئىلى دەرياسى, Или Дәряси,; Ile; Или; 伊犁河,; Йили хә, اِلِ حْ; Или мөрөн) is a river in Northwest China and Southeastern Kazakhstan.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigirka

The Indigirka (r; translit) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Irrawaddy River

The Irrawaddy River (ဧရာဝတီမြစ်,, Ayeyarwady) is the largest river in Myanmar.

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Irtysh

The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.

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Ishim (river)

The Ishim (Ishim; Esil) is a river running through Kazakhstan and Russia.

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Jialing River

The Jialing River, formerly known by numerous other names, is a major tributary of the Yangtze River in the Sichuan Basin.

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Kama (river)

The Kama (Ка́ма,; Чулман; Кам) is a long, Russian State Water Registry river in Russia.

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Kapuas River

The Kapuas River (or Kapoeas River) is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river in IndonesiaMacKinnon, p. 133 and one of the world's longest island rivers.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Kızılırmak River

The Kızılırmak (Turkish for "Red River"), once known as the Halys River (Ἅλυς) and Alis River, is the longest river flowing entirely within Turkey.

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Ket (river)

The Ket was a part of the Siberian River Routes. The Ket (Кеть), also known in its upper reaches as the Bolshaya Ket (Большая Кеть) is a west-flowing river in the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob.

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Kherlen River

Kherlen River (also known as Kern or Kerülen) is a 1,254 km river in Mongolia and China.

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Kolyma (river)

The Kolyma (Колыма,; translit) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia.

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Konda (river)

The Konda (Конда) is a river in the Khanty–Mansia region of Russia.

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Krishna River

The Krishna River in the Deccan plateau is the third-longest river in India, after the Ganges and Godavari.

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Kura (river)

The Kura is an east-flowing river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea.

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Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.

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Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.

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Lena (river)

The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Yenisey). The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia, with a length of and a drainage basin of.

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Liao River

The Liao River is the principal river in southern Northeast China, and one of the seven main river systems in China.

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List of rivers of Asia

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Mamberamo River

The Mamberamo (Indonesian: Sungai Mamberamo) is the second-longest river on the island of New Guinea, after Sepik River (1,146 km) and the third largest in Oceania by discharge (5,500 m3/s) volume after Fly River (7,500 m3/s) and Sepik (7,000 m3/s).

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Markha (Vilyuy)

Markha (Марха́; Марха өрүс, Marxa örüs) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia.

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Maya (river)

The Maya (Мая; Маайа, Maaya) is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Sakha, Russia.

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Mekong

The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Indonesia)

The Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan Rakyat; abbreviated as Kemen PUPR), is an Indonesian government ministry that is responsible for public works and public housing.

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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Narmada River

The Narmada River, previously also known as Narbada or anglicised as Nerbudda, is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country.

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Nen River

The Nen River or Nenjiang, or Nonni is a river in Northeast China.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Nizhnyaya Tunguska

The Nizhnyaya Tunguska (p, meaning "Lower Tunguska") is a river in Siberia, Russia, that flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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Ob (river)

The Ob is a major river in Russia.

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Olenyok (river)

The Olenyok (Оленёк, sometimes spelled Оленек, Olenek; Өлөөн, Ölöön) is a major river in northern Siberian Russia, west of the lower Lena and east of the Anabar.

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Olyokma

The Olyokma (Олёкма,,; Өлүөхүмэ) is a tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia.

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Omolon

The Omolon (Омолон; Омолоон, Omoloon) is the principal tributary of the Kolyma in northeast Siberia.

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Pearl River

The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China.

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Podkamennaya Tunguska

The Podkamennaya Tunguska (Подкаменная Тунгуска, literally Tunguska under the stones; Дулгу Катэнӈа, Ket: Ӄо’ль) also known as Middle Tunguska or Stony Tunguska, is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

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Red River (Asia)

The Red River, also known as the Hong River (Sông Hồng; Chữ Nôm: 瀧紅) and (lit. "Main River"; Chữ Nôm: 瀧丐) in Vietnamese, and the in Chinese, is a -long river that flows from Yunnan in Southwest China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Salween River

The Salween is a Southeast Asian river, about long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows primarily within southwest China and eastern Myanmar (Burma), with a short section forming the border of Burma and Thailand. Throughout most of its course, it runs swiftly through rugged mountain canyons.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_rivers_of_Asia

Also known as List of Longest Asian Rivers, List of the longest Asian rivers.

, Kazakhstan, Kızılırmak River, Ket (river), Kherlen River, Kolyma (river), Konda (river), Krishna River, Kura (river), Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lena (river), Liao River, List of rivers of Asia, Mamberamo River, Markha (Vilyuy), Maya (river), Mekong, Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Indonesia), Mongolia, Myanmar, Narmada River, Nen River, Nepal, Nizhnyaya Tunguska, Ob (river), Olenyok (river), Olyokma, Omolon, Pearl River, Podkamennaya Tunguska, Red River (Asia), Salween River, Songhua River, Sutlej, Syr Darya, Syria, Tajikistan, Tarim River, Taz (river), Thailand, Tigris, Tobol, Tura (river), Turkmenistan, Tyung, Ural (river), Uzbekistan, Vasyugan, Vietnam, Vilyuy, Vitim (river), Wu River (Yangtze tributary), Xi River, Yalong River, Yamuna, Yangtze, Yarlung Tsangpo, Yellow River, Yenisey, Zeya (river).

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Lists of longest rivers

Rivers of Asia

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