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UPPCS World Geography Gap Sheet: World Rivers and Cities on Them.
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First, the concept
Old cities grew on rivers for water, food and trade. UPPCS's favourite world-river question is simply: which city stands on which river?
The Nile is the longest river; the Amazon carries the most water. The Danube flows through the most countries.
Siberia's great rivers (Ob, Yenisei, Lena) flow north into the Arctic, so their mouths stay frozen for much of the year.
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Africa and West Asia
- Nile: Cairo, Khartoum, Aswan · The White and Blue Nile meet at Khartoum
- Congo: Kinshasa · Crosses the Equator twice
- Niger: Bamako, Niamey · West Africa; a big inland delta
- Zambezi · Victoria Falls and Kariba Dam
- Orange · South Africa
- Tigris: Baghdad; Euphrates · Iraq; Mesopotamia between them
- Jordan · Ends in the Dead Sea
Europe
- Danube: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade · Flows through the most countries; ends in the Black Sea
- Rhine: Basel, Cologne, Bonn, Rotterdam · Europe's busiest waterway
- Thames: London · England
- Seine: Paris · France
- Tiber: Rome · Italy
- Volga: Volgograd · Europe's longest river; ends in the Caspian
- Vistula: Warsaw; Elbe: Hamburg, Dresden · Poland; Germany
Asia
- Yangtze: Shanghai, Wuhan · Asia's longest; Three Gorges Dam
- Huang He (Yellow River) · 'China's Sorrow' for its floods
- Mekong: Vientiane, Phnom Penh · Flows through six countries
- Irrawaddy · Myanmar
- Ob, Yenisei, Lena · Siberia; flow north into the Arctic
- Amur · Russia–China border
Americas and Australia
- Amazon: Manaus · Carries the most water of any river
- Mississippi: New Orleans · Bird's-foot delta
- St. Lawrence: Montreal, Quebec · Drains the Great Lakes
- Hudson: New York; Potomac: Washington · USA
- Colorado · Carved the Grand Canyon; Hoover Dam
- Mackenzie and Yukon · Canada; Canada–Alaska
- Murray-Darling · Australia's longest river system
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⚠️ Baghdad is on the Tigris, not the Euphrates. Budapest, Vienna and Belgrade are on the Danube, not the Rhine. Shanghai is on the Yangtze, not the Huang He.
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