Statistics for Major Rivers of the World - Source US Dept of Commerce, NOAA

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Miles and Outflow	Name of River	% Correct
2,348 to Gulf of Mexico	Mississippi	97%
3,740 to Gulf of Mexico	Mississippi-Missouri	97%
2,315 to Mississippi	Missouri	97%
4,007 miles to Atlantic	Amazon	96%
4,145 to Mediterranean Sea	Nile	96%
3,720 to China Sea	Yangtze (Changjiang)	90%
1,776 to Black Sea	Danube	87%
2,903 to Gulf of Chihli	Huang He (Yellow)	87%
2,290 to Caspian Sea	Volga	86%
2,900 to Atlantic	Congo (Zaire)	84%
1.560 to Bay of Bengal	Ganges	83%
2,600 to South China Sea	Mekong	80%
2,600 to Gulf of Guinea	Niger	79%
1,450 to Gulf of California	Colorado	74%
1,800 to Arabian Sea	Indus	73%
820 to North Sea	Rhine	73%
1,885 to Gulf of Mexico	Rio Grande	73%
800 to Gulf of St. Lawrence	St. Lawrence	71%
1,510 to Shatt-al-Arab	Euphrates	68%
3,360 to Arctic Ocean	Ob-Irtysh	68%
1,180 to Shatt-al-Arab	Tigris	67%
1,979 to Bering Sea	Yukon	67%
3,030 to Atlantic	Parana-Plata	62%
1,700 to Mozambique Channel	Zambezi	61%
3,590 to Tatar Strait	Amur-Argun	59%
1,300 to Mississippi	Ohio-Allegheny	59%
2,730 to Laptev Sea	Lena	56%
2,635 to Beaufort Sea Arctic	MacKenzie	55%
2,330 to Indian Ocean	Murray-Darling	47%
3,650 to Arctic -Kara Sea	Yenisei-Angara	46%
1,450 to Mississippi River	Arkansas	45%
1,770 to Ganges River	Brahmaputra	45%
1,243 to Pacific	Columbia (The Gem of theOcean)	44%
1,300 to Atlantic	Orange	42%
1,400 to Gulf or Mexico	Archafalaya-Red	39%
1,600 to Atlantic	Orinoco	39%
1,575 to Caspian Sea	Ural	33%
1,300 to Bay of Bengal	Irrawaddy	27%
1,610 to Parana River	Paraguay	26%
1,370 to Aral Sea	Syr Darya	25%
1,578 to Aral Sea	Amu Darya	23%
1,988 to Atlantic	Sao Francisco	23%
1,710 to Atlantic	Para-Tocantins	21%
1,750 to Bay of Bengal	Salween	17%
2,013 to Amazon River	Madeira	15%
1,600 to Hudson Bay	Nelson-Saskatchewan	15%
1,420 to Black Sea	Dneiper	14%
1,860 to Amazon River	Purus	11%
1,860 to Yenesei River	Tunguska	8%
1,320 to Arctic	Kolyma	6%
1,338 to Congo	Kasai	5%