What is the world's longest river?

Question

The Nile or the Amazon?

Answer 1

the nile for sure

Answer 2

The Nile is the longest at 4135 miles and the Amazon is at 3980 miles. But now people say that the Amazon is the longest. There's no telling because as you can see, the lengths are not that far apart.

Answer 3

It's the Nile, Iris.

Answer 4

Nile

Answer 5

The Nile River!

Answer 6

The nile river  is the longest river in Egypt .

Hope the following helps:

Name origin: "Nile"(Arabic: 'nīl) comes from the Greek word Neilos (Νειλος)

Countries : Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Rwanda,  Tanzania,  Uganda

Cities Khartoum, Cairo

Primary source White Nile

- coordinates 2°16′55.92″S 29°19′52.32″E / -2.2822, 29.3312

Secondary source Blue Nile

- location Lake Tana, Ethiopia

- coordinates [show location on an interactive map] 12°2′8.8″N 37°15′53.11″E / 12.035778, 37.2647528

Source confluence near Khartoum

Mouth

- location Mediterranean Sea

Length 6,650 km (4,132 mi)

Basin 3,400,000 km² (1,312,747 sq mi)

Discharge

- average 2,830 m³/s (99,941 cu ft/s)

Answer 7

Nile River!!!! It is aprox. 4,000 miles long!!!

Answer 8

Nile. But the Amazon transports 1000 times more water.

Answer 9

the nile.   which is in egypt.  and it goes upwards wich is wierd

Answer 10

the nile

Answer 11

Nile is the world's longest river at 4,184 miles. It has two sources, one at Lake Victoria, in Uganda (the White Nile) and one at Lake Tana, in Ethiopia (the Blue Nile).

Answer 12

The Nile River

Answer 13

The length of a river is actually very hard to calculate. It depends on the identification of the source, the identification of the mouth, and the precise measurement of the river length between source and mouth. As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations. In particular, there has for long been disagreement as to whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river.

The source of a river may be hard to determine because a river typically has many tributaries. Among the many sources, the one that is farthest away from the mouth is considered as the source of the river, thus giving a maximal river length. In practice, the tributary with the farthest source is not always the one given the name of the river. For example, the farthest source of the Mississippi River system is the source of the Jefferson River, a tributary of the Missouri River which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi. However, a different (and shorter) tributary is identified as the Mississippi. When the river is measured from mouth to farthest source, it is called the Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson. Also, it is hard to state exactly where a river begins as very often rivers are formed by seasonal streams, swamps, or changing lakes.

The mouth of a river may be hard to determine in cases where the river has a large estuary that gradually widens and opens into the ocean; examples are the River Plate and the Saint Lawrence River. Some rivers do not have a mouth; instead they dwindle to very low water volume and eventually evaporate, or sink into an aquifer, or get diverted for agriculture. The exact point where these rivers end will vary seasonally.