swap_horiz Murgab River Alternatives

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Nile River

The Nile River is a major waterway originating in East Africa and extending over 6,650 kilometers. It’s notable for its...

Historic Africa Irrigation Major

9.8 Brilliant

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Ganges River

The Ganges River is a major waterway in Asia originating in the Himalayas and flowing through India and Bangladesh. It’s...

India Asia Sacred Irrigation

9.4 Excellent

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Zambezi River

The Zambezi River is a major waterway in southern Africa, flowing over 2,574 kilometers. It’s notable for containing Vic...

Africa Hydropower Major Southern Africa

9.2 Excellent

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Euphrates River

The Euphrates River is a major waterway originating in Turkey and flowing through Syria and Iraq. It’s notable for its h...

Historic Asia Middle East Irrigation

9.1 Excellent

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Tigris River

Major Western Asian river roughly 1,850 km long flowing through Turkey and Iraq, forming with the Euphrates the heartlan...

Historic Asia Mesopotamia Middle East

9.0 Excellent

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Blue Nile

Ethiopian river originating at Lake Tana and flowing roughly 1,450 km to Khartoum, Sudan, where it contributes approxima...

Nile Africa Ethiopia Major

8.9 Great

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Yarlung Tsangpo River

The Yarlung Tsangpo, originating near Mount Kailash on the Tibetan Plateau at about 5,210 m elevation, becomes the Brahm...

China Himalayan Major Tibet

8.8 Great

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Paraná River

South America's second-longest river at approximately 4,880 km, draining parts of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina before...

Navigation South America Hydropower LA Plata

8.7 Great

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Thames River

England's longest river at 346 km, flowing through London to the North Sea and serving for centuries as the commercial a...

Europe Historic UK London

8.7 Great

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White Nile

Longer but lower-volume Nile tributary originating in the African Great Lakes region, joining the Blue Nile at Khartoum,...

Nile Africa Major Sudan

8.5 Great

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Rhône River

Major river of southern Europe originating in Switzerland and flowing roughly 812 km through France to the Mediterranean...

Europe France Alpine Hydropower

8.3 Great

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Mara River

The Mara River flows about 395 km through Kenya and Tanzania across the Serengeti-Masai Mara ecosystem, famed for wildeb...

Wildlife Africa Kenya Tanzania

8.3 Great

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Awash River

Ethiopian river roughly 1,200 km long notable for draining into the Afar Depression without reaching the sea, and for ea...

Africa Ethiopia Inland Major

8.0 Great

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Panj River

A river approximately 921 km long forming the Tajikistan–Afghanistan border and serving as the principal headwater sourc...

Central Asia Afghanistan Tajikistan Border

7.4 Good

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Kabul River

Afghan-Pakistani river roughly 700 km long rising near Kabul and flowing east through the Khyber region to join the Indu...

Asia Afghanistan Indus Major

7.3 Good

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Ili River

The Ili flows ~1,439 km from the Tian Shan mountains through China's Xinjiang into Kazakhstan, where it is the primary s...

China Kazakhstan Central Asia Major

7.3 Good

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Naryn River

The longest river in Kyrgyzstan at approximately 807 km, flowing west through the Tian Shan before joining the Kara Dary...

Central Asia Hydropower Kyrgyzstan Major

7.1 Good

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Vakhsh River

A major Tajik river about 524 km long and a key tributary of the Amu Darya, hosting the Nurek Dam, one of the world's ta...

Central Asia Tajikistan Hydropower Amu Darya

7.1 Good

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Chu River

A Central Asian river about 1,186 km long, rising in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan and flowing into Kazakhstan's steppe where i...

Kazakhstan Central Asia Inland Kyrgyzstan

6.8 Fair

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Tejen River

The Tejen River (Hari Rud) originates in central Afghanistan and forms part of the Iran–Turkmenistan border before disap...

Seasonal Iran Central Asia Afghanistan

6.6 Fair