Rivers Flashcards
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the longest river in Europe
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Volga
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flows past Kazan, Saratov, and Astrakhan and empties into the Caspian Sea
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Volga
3
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flamingos and pelicans can be seen in its delta
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Volga
4
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ends near Venice
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Po
5
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flows through the cities of Piacenza and Turin
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Po
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connected to Milan by channels
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Po
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rises in Czechia (Krkonose Mountains of the Sudetenland)
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Elbe (Labe)
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flows through Dresden, Dessau, Magdeburg, Wittenberg, Hamburg and empties into the North Sea
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Elbe (Labe)
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Ukraine (forms the border with Belarus)
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Dnieper
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flows through Kyiv, Kherson, and Smolensk and empties into the Black Sea
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Dnieper
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flows through London
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Thames
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Henley Royal Regata
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Thames
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called Isis through Oxford
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Thames
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“frost fairs” held during the Little Ice Age
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Thames
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“Great Stink” because of pollution
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Thames
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Tower Bridge
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Thames
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London Bridge (Robert McCulloch relocated an old one to Lake Havasu City in Arizona)
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Thames
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Millenium Bridge
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Thames
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flows through Florence and Pisa
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Arno
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longest in Ireland
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Shannon
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is only crossable in 30 places
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Shannon
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flows through Paris
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Seine
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Joan of Arc’s ashes were thrown into this river from the Mathilde Bridge
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Seine
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Île de la Cité is in the middle of it and includes the Notre-Dame cathedral
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Seine
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crossed by 37 bridges
Seine
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Pont d'Arc was built to limit Viking travel on it
Seine
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Pont de Normandie
Seine
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Pont Neuf
Seine
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Pont des Arts
Seine
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Starts on Plateau de Langres and it ends on the English Channel
Seine
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Cities: Troyes, Fontainebleau, Rouen
Seine
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Tributaries: Marne, Oise
Seine
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France’s chief transport waterway
Seine
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the 2nd longest in France
Seine
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France’s longest river
Loire
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begins in the Cevennes range of southern France and flows north to Orlean, then flows due west to the Bay of Biscay
Loire
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flows past Nevers, Orleans, Blois, Tours, and Nantes
Loire
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Flows west, along the German-Swiss border, then north, along the German-French border
Rhine
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Joins with Meuse and Scheldt to the North Sea in the Netherlands
Rhine
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German myth: Lorelei (nymph)
Rhine
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the principal river of the Iberian peninsula
Tagus
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passes through Lisbon, Toledo, Santarem, Aranjuez
Tagus
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Hydroelectric dams and artificial lakes, including the Sea of Castile
Tagus
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flows through Lake Geneva and the cities of Geneva, Lyon, Avignon, Arles, and Marseille
Rhone
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valley famous for red wine
Rhone
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navigable for a lot of the river; key access route for South France
Rhone
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begins in Germany’s Black Forest and ends in the Black Sea
Danube
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passes through or touches the borders of 10 nations
Danube
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1785 miles
Danube
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tributaries: Drava and Sava
Danube
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passes through 4 national capitals: Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Belgrade (Serbia)
Danube
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forms part of the Germany-Poland border as dictated at the Potsdam Conference
Oder
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flows past Ostrava in the Czech Republic and Breslau in Poland and empties into the Baltic
Oder
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the longest river in Poland
Vistula
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flows past Krakow, Warsaw and empties into the Baltic Sea at Gdańsk
Vistula
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Auschwitz is on the river (the ashes of many Jews were dumped in the river)
Vistula
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Two main branches (White and Blue) meet in Khartoum (White Nile at Lake Victoria and Blue Nile at Lake Tana)
Nile
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Huge delta in Egypt at the Mediterranean Sea
Nile
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System at cataracts
Nile
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Aswan High/Low Dams forms Lake Nasser/Lake Nubia
Nile
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Elephantine Island (Hapi (caverns at Elephantine))
Nile
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Flooding required for agriculture (Isis tears for Osiris; coming of Hapi)
Nile
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2nd longest in Africa
Congo
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Sources are the Lualaba and Chambeshi rivers; Ultimately Lake Tanganyika
Congo
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It starts at Boyoma Falls in the DRC (Formally called Stanley Falls)
Congo
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Forms Malebo Pool (sometimes Pool Malebo) near Kinshasa and Brazzaville
Congo
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Ingra Dams
Congo
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3rd longest in Africa
Niger
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Cuts through Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Guinea
Niger
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Mali Empire and Songhai Empire located along the river
Niger
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Segou, Djenne, and Timbuktu visited by Mungo Park
Niger
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Benue River is the main tributary
Niger
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Huge delta on the Gulf of Guinea
Niger
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4th longest in Africa
Zambezi
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Starts in Angola and cuts across southern Africa to the Indian Ocean
Zambezi
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Delta in Mozambique
Zambezi
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That funny little stip at the top of Namibia was created to access the Zambezi (Caprivi Strip)
Zambezi
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Lots of tributaries, but the Kabompo comes up a bit (the Shire too)
Zambezi
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Explored by David Livingstone
Zambezi
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Victoria Falls - mile-wide falls
Zambezi
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Kariba Dam & Cabora Bassa Dam
Zambezi
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Flows from Angola through Namibia to Botswana
Okavango
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Flows into the Kalahari Desert
Okavango
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‘Ends’ in the Okavango Delta (Inland delta that basically is a big swamp)
Okavango
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During the wet season, it is one of the most significant wildlife densities in the world
Okavango
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Moremi Game Reserve sits on the eastern side of the delta
Okavango
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Fills Lake Ngami and once flowed into Lake Makgadikgadi (now salt pans, basically lifeless)
Okavango
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Forms where the Marico and Crocodile Rivers converge
Limpopo
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Flows from the east of the Kalahari through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean near Xia-Xia
Limpopo
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Forms the northern border betwixt South Africa and Zimbabwe
Limpopo
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Called Espiritu Santo River by Vasco de Gama
Limpopo
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Rudyard Kipling called it the “great grey-green, greasy...set about with fever-trees”
Limpopo
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The longest river in South Africa
Orange
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Vanderkloof Dam
Orange
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Second longest in the US
Mississippi
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Atchafalaya River is a distributary
Mississippi
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flows through or past Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans
Mississippi
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Originates in Lake Itasca, Minnesota
Mississippi
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Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Illinois Rivers are tributaries
Mississippi
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starts at Pittsburgh and goes west forming numerous borders
Ohio
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confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
Ohio
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Longest in the US
Missouri
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meets the Mississippi at St. Louis
Missouri
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Lewis and Clark sailed up it
Missouri
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flows past Bismark, Sioux Falls, Omaha, Kansas City, Jefferson City
Missouri
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formed by the confluence of the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson Rivers
Missouri
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Tributaries: Osage, Platt, and Yellowstone Rivers
Missouri
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Garrison Dam forms Lake Sakakawea
Missouri
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the largest tributary of the Ohio River
Tennessee
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formed by the confluence of the Holston and French Broad Rivers
Tennessee
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flows by Chattanooga and Knoxville
Tennessee
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Tennessee Valley Authority created by the New Deal
Tennessee
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begins in Colorado and flows past Wichita, Tulsa, and Little Rock
Arkansas
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forms the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas
Red River (of the South)
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rises in the Texas Panhandle
Red River (of the South)
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creates much of the border between North Dakota and Minnesota
Red River (of the North)
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drains into Lake Winnipeg in Canada
Red River (of the North)
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flows past Fargo
Red River (of the North)
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forms part of the boundary between Alabama and Georgia
Chattahoochee
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flows near Atlanta
Chattahoochee
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runs through Portland, OR
Columbia
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forms the border between Washington and Oregon
Columbia
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Grand Coulee Dam (Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake was formed)
Columbia
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meets the Columbia at Portland
Willamette
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runs through Salem, Corvallis, Eugene
Willamette
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starts in Yellowstone National Park
Snake
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forms much of the border between Oregon and Idaho
Snake
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joins the Columbia at Kennewick (Walla Walla County)
Snake
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flows through Pocatello, Boise, Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park
Snake
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flows through the deepest gorge in North America, Hells Canyon
Snake
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Milner Dam, Fort Peck, Oahe Dam
Snake
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goes over Shoshone Falls and Twin Falls
Snake
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rises in Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado
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empties into the Gulf of California
Colorado
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cuts the Grand Canyon in Arizona
Colorado
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Hoover Dam near Las Vegas forming Lake Mead
Colorado
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Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona forms Lake Powell
Colorado
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joined by the Gunnison and Gila Rivers
Colorado
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changes in the flow hundreds of years ago created the Salton Sea
Colorado
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flows through Yuma and Moab
Colorado
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All-American Canal is used to irrigate the Imperial Valley
Colorado
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Wahington, D.C., is built on it, meets the Anacostia River there
Potomac
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rises in West Virginian and empties into the Chesapeake Bay
Potomac
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forms the border between Virginia and Maryland
Potomac
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meets the Shenandoah River at Harper’s Ferry
Potomac
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rises in the Catskills and empties into the Atlantic
Delaware
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forms the border between Delaware and New Jersey
Delaware
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flows past Trenton and Philadelphia
Delaware
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named for the English explorer Henry Hudson
Hudson
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major river of New York
Hudson
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Mohawk River is the major tributary
Hudson
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flows past Albany, West Point
Hudson
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forms the boundary between Manhattan and New Jersey
Hudson
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drains the Great Lakes from the northeastern corner of Lake Ontario in the Thousand Islands archipelago
St. Lawrence River
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First explored and named by Jacques Cartier in the early 16th century
St. Lawrence River
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forms the border between Ontario and New York
St. Lawrence River
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receives the Ottawa and Saguenay Rivers
St. Lawrence River
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flows through Montréal and Quebec City
St. Lawrence River
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the longest river in Canada
Mackenzie River
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flows out of the Great Slave Lake
Mackenzie River
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flows past Fort Providence, Fort Simpson
Mackenzie River
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empties into the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean
Mackenzie River
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named for Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie
Mackenzie River
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forms the border between Texas and four Mexican states
Rio Grande
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flows south out of Colorado through New Mexico and reaches the border near El Paso
Rio Grande
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Big Bend National Park is named for a sweeping curve on the river
Rio Grande
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flows past Laredo and Brownsville
Rio Grande
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rises in the Andes in Peru and empties into the Atlantic near Marajo Island
Amazon
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disputed to be the longest river in the world rather than the Nile
Amazon
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there are no bridges over the Amazon
Amazon
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meets the Rio Negro near Manaus at the 'Meeting of the Waters'
Amazon
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Belem is at the mouth of the river
Amazon
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pink river dolphin (boto)
Amazon
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Francisco de Orellana led an expedition to find the ‘Land of Cinnamon’ (La Canela) and named it after female warriors
Amazon
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the basin contains large amounts of charcoal-rich terra preta soil
Amazon
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connected to the Orinoco by the Casiquiare Canal
Amazon
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rises in Colombia and flows through Venezuela, and empties into the Atlantic (Gulf of Paria)
Orinoco
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Casiquiare Canal connects it to the Rio Negro and, ultimately, to the Amazon
Orinoco
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flows past Ciudad Guyana and Ciudad Bolivar
Orinoco
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Sir Walter Raleigh sailed down the river looking for El Dorado
Orinoco
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runs through Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Paraná
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meets the Uruguay River to form the Rio de la Plata
Paraná
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Itaipu Dam on the border of Brazil and Paraguay
Paraná
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forms much of the boundary between China and Russia
Amur
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starts near Lake Baikal in Siberia
Lena
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Siberian river that empties into the Arctic Ocean (Kara Sea)
Ob
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tributary is the Irtysh River
Ob
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Russia and Kazakhstan
Ural
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rises in the Ural Mountains and empties into the Caspian Sea
Ural
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with the Ural Mountains, it forms the border between Europe and Asia
Ural
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rises in Syria from springs near Mount Hermon
Jordan
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flows south to Lake Merom, through the Sea of Galilee, and into the Dead Sea
Jordan
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site of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist
Jordan
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defines the western border of Mesopotamia
Euphrates
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rises in the Zagros Mountains of Turkey
Euphrates
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flows through Fallujah, Babylon
Euphrates
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eastern of the two rivers that define the historic region of Mesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad)
Tigris
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rises in Turkey, then flows by Mosul, Tikrit, Baghdad and empties into the Persian Gulf
Tigris
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joins the Euphrates to make the Shatt-al-Arab
Tigris
200
river of Pakistan
Indus
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source of the name of India
Indus
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rises in Tibet and empties in the Arabian Sea southeast of Karachi
Indus
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real OGs call it the Ganga
Ganges
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holiest river of Hinduism
Ganges
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flows to the world’s largest delta, on the Bay of Bengal
Ganges
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distributaries are the Hooghly (Kolkata) and the Padma
Ganges
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the Yamuna joins it at Allahabad
Ganges
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rises in the Himalayas (Tibet), flows into India and then Bangladesh, and empties into the Bay of Bengal
Brahmaputra
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it merges with the Ganges to form the world’s largest delta
Brahmaputra
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Yarlung Tsangpo is the upper portion
Brahmaputra
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called Jamuna in Bangladesh
Brahmaputra
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river of Myanmar (Burma)
Irrawaddy
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flows past Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and Mandalay to the Gulf of Martaban in the Bay of Bengal
Irrawaddy
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delta is one of the world’s most important rice-growing regions
Irrawaddy
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name might come from the Sanskrit word for “elephant”
Irrawaddy
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chief river of Southeast Asia
Mekong
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giant catfish
Mekong
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Khone Falls
Mekong
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forms much of the Laos–Thailand border, then goes through Cambodia
Mekong
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meets the Ruak River in the Golden Triangle (opium production)
Mekong
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flows parallel to the Salween and Yangtze through Vientiane, Laos and Phnom Penh, Cambodia and near the Tonlé Sap
Mekong
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empties into the South China Sea in Vietnam south of Ho Chi Minh City
Mekong
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the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world
Yangtze
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rises in the Kunlun Mountains
Yangtze
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flows across the Tibetan Plateau and past the cities of Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai and empties into the South China Sea
Yangtze
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connected to the Yellow River by the Grand Canal
Yangtze
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Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest
Yangtze
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China’s second-longest river
Yellow (Huang He)
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rises in Qinghai province
Yellow (Huang He)
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flows into the Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea
Yellow (Huang He)
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name comes from the extraordinary amount of loess silt that it carries
Yellow (Huang He)
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Grand Canal, rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty, links it to the Yangtze
Yellow (Huang He)
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rises in the Australian Alps and empties into the Great Australian Bight
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