Letter
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Hint
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Answer
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A
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Major river in Central Asia which flows into the remnants of the Aral Sea
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Amu Darya
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B
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Tributary which flows through eastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon
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Benue
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C
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Second longest river in Africa and second largest by discharge in the world
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Congo
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D
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Tributary of the Murray river which flows through the state of New South Wales, Australia
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Darling
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E
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River in northern Spain which flows mainly east-southeast
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Ebro
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F
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Third longest river on New Guinea and the namesake of a turtle with a nose resembling a pig's snout
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Fly
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G
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Longest river on the Deccan Peninsula (not the Ganges, it is not on the peninsula)
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Godavari
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H
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Flows into the Yangtze at Wuhan, namesake of a major Chinese dynasty
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Han
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I
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Major river in Myanmar, flowing north-to-south from the Andaman Sea
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Irrawaddy
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J
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Six-letter tributary of the Amazon, home to super-heavy 6' catfish
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Japura
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K
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Tributary which shares the name of some of its own tributaries with many provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including sharing its own name with three of them
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Kasai
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L
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Forms the northern border of South Africa and flows into the Indian Ocean near Xai-Xai, Mozambique
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Limpopo
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M
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Longest river system in Canada, longest river to empty into the Arctic Ocean from North America, and drains about 20% of Canada
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Mackenzie
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N
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Third longest in Africa, with B as a major tributary
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Niger
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O
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Major river in North Siberia, west of the Lena river delta in the Sakha Republic
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Olenyok
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P
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First major tributary of the Amazon which joins west of Manaus
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Purus
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Q
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Tributary of the Yangtze which flows through central Nanjing
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Qinhuai
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R
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World's shortest river according to the Guinness Book of World Records
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Roe
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S
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Named after a West African country in which it flows in the north
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Senegal
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T
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Endorheic river in Xinjiang, China, near the Kunlun Mountains
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Tarim
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U
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Ranked fiftieth in length by Wikipedia, it is an anagram of a major city it passes through
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Ubangi
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V
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Main river of Ghana, with its basin in parts of five other countries; change one letter and you get the longest river in Europe
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Volta
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W
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Named for a "doubled" city in Washington state, also starts with the same two letters as Washington
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Walla Walla
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X
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Only "river" starting with X with a length over 1000 km
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Xingu
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Y
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Northernmost of the two "top ten" longest rivers that start with a Y, also a color
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Yellow
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Z
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River that touches the "slightly off" corner of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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Zambezi
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