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IN PICTURES: Scenes from the 5 longest rivers in the world.

THE NILE (4,132 mi). THE AMAZON (4,000 mi). YANGTZE RIVER (3,915 mi). YELLOW RIVER (3,395 mi). PARANA RIVER (3,032 mi).

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THE NILE (4,132 mi).

Fertile area along the Nile River. (CREDIT: CC)
Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. (CREDIT: Mohamdriyd)
Sunset along the Nile River in Luxor, Egypt. (CREDIT: CC)
The great egret (Ardea alba), the common egret, great white egret. Luxor, Egypt. (CREDIT: Vyacheslav Argenberg)
Living along the Nile RIver. (CREDIT: Krรผckstock)

THE AMAZON (4,000 mi).

Satellite image of the Amazon River. (CREDIT: Rex)
Ferry along the Amazon. (CREDIT: Pontanegra)
Arapaime gigas. (CREDIT: ใกใใˆ\)
Sunset along the Amazon. (CREDIT: Peter Angritt)

YANGTZE RIVER (3,915 mi).

Satellite image of water moving through the gates of Three Gorges Dam. (NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens)
Yangtze River in Congqin, China. (CREDIT: Boris Kasimov)
One of three gorges on Yangtze river. (CREDIT: Photnart)
Lidu Yangtze River Bridge (CREDIT: Glabb)

YELLOW RIVER (3,395 mi).

A rustic home sits next to the headwaters of the Yellow River (Huang He) in China. (CREDIT: Tenace10)
Yellow River. (CREDIT: CC)
Yellow River. (CREDIT: Laika ac)
Chinaโ€™s Huang He (Yellow River) is the most sediment-filled river on Earth. Flowing northeast to the Bo Hai Sea from the Bayan Har Mountains, the Yellow River crosses a plateau blanketed with up to 300 meters (980 feet) of fine, wind-blown soil. (CREDIT: NASA)

PARANA RIVER (3,032 mi).

English: This astronaut photograph shows a 29-kilometre stretch of the Paranรก, downstream of the small city of Goya, Argentina (just off the top left of the image). (CREDIT: NASA)
Parana River (CREDIT: Falk2)
View from the National Flag Monument in Rosario to the North. (CREDIT: Ermell)
Public beach on the Paranรก River, Rosario, Argentina, on an unusually warm winter afternoon. In the background, the Rosario-Victoria Bridge.

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