Top 5 Largest Rivers in the World

Rivers are the natural water passages leading towards sea, lakes, oceans and to other watercourses. They are established by the stored water in glaciers, underground water courses and other water streams. Rivers play a significant part in providing humans and other life forms like aquatic organisms with water, habitation to the marine life, agricultural fisheries, individual source of revenue with farming, navigation, transport, economic growth and producing electricity by steep water streams in turbines and hydroelectric plants. 

Here are mentioned some advantages: Rivers have the significant effect on the stability and maintenance of Eco-systems in benefaction to nature. They carry minerals and nutrients from different lands and also help in cleaning 75% of the land of habitats. The best thing is, they keep water storage for an extended period of time. Apart from these advantages it also has some disadvantages as the overflow can result in causing a flood. Except for creating positive climate change that is good for life, rivers can also cause continuous rainfall and evaporation allowing destruction to the land.

We can classify rivers into the following types mainly:

Mature

Rejuvenated

Old

Youthful

Well, concerning volume and size, Old and Mature rivers are the longest and biggest ones. In another case scenario because of environmental aspects some of them being shortest, some are longest, whereas some just fall at middle stage. According to the proper listing of them, there are 176 rivers in the world which have more than thousand kilometre length considerably and still not much limited after that. When it comes to the longest river, then River Nile gets the top place with 6853 km length. 

List of Top 5 Largest Rivers in the world is mentioned below:

1: Nile – Kagera (African)-6,650 Km length

Outflow: Mediterranean

Drainage lange: 3,254,555 square km

2:  Amazon – (South American) - 6,400 Km length

Outflow: Atlantic Ocean

Drainage land: 7,050,000 sq. kilometer

3:  Yangtze (Asian)- 6,300 Km length

Outflow: East China Sea

Drainage land: 1,800,000

4: Mississippi, Missouri, Jefferson (North American)-  6,275 Km Length

Outflow: Gulf of Mexico

Drainage land: 2,980,000 Square Kilometer

5: Yenisei, Selenga, Angara Rivers (Asian)- 5, 539 Km Length

Outflow: Kara Sea

Drainage land: 2,580,000 sq.km