List of rivers by average discharge

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	River	Length (km)	Length (miles)	Drainage area (km²)	Average discharge (m³/s)	Outflow	Reference
	Amazon	7,062	4,391	6,915,000	219,000	Atlantic Ocean	[1]
	Congo	4,371	2,716	3,680,000	41,800	Atlantic Ocean	[1]
	Ganges-Brahmaputra	2,948	1,832	1,500,000	33,470	Bay of Bengal	[2]
	Orinoco	2,140	1,330	880,000	33,000	Atlantic Ocean	[1]
	Yangtze (Chang Jiang)	6,380	3,964	1,800,000	31,900	East China Sea	[1]
	Rio Negro	2,230	1,390	691,000	29,300	Amazon	[citation needed]
	Paraná (Río de la Plata)	3,998	2,484	3,100,000	25,700	Atlantic Ocean	[1]
	Yenisei - Angara - Selenga	5,550	3,449	2,580,000	19,600	Kara Sea	[1]
	Lena	4,260	2,647	2,490,000	17,100	Laptev Sea	[1]
	Madeira - Mamoré	3,239	2,013	850,000	17,000	Amazon	[3]
	Mississippi - Missouri	6,270	3,896	2,980,000	16,200	Gulf of Mexico	[1]
	Mekong	4,023	2,500	810,000	16,000	South China Sea	[1]
	Pearl - Xi Jiang (West) (Si Kang)	2,200	1,376	437,000	13,600	South China Sea	[1]
	Tocantins	2,699	1,677	1,400,000	13,598	Atlantic Ocean, Amazon	[4]
	Ayeyarwady	2,170	1,348	411,000	13,000	Andaman Sea	[1]
	Ob' - Irtysh	5,410	3,449	2,990,000	12,800	Gulf of Ob	[1]
	Amur (Heilong)	4,352	2,714	1,855,000	11,400	Sea of Okhotsk	[1]
	Caroní	952	595	95,000	10,850	Orinoco river	[citation needed]
	Mackenzie - Peace - Finlay	4,241	2,635	1,790,000	10,300	Beaufort Sea	[1]
	Saint Lawrence - Great Lakes	3,058	1,900	1,030,000	10,100	Gulf of Saint Lawrence	[1]
	Niger	4,167	2,589	2,090,000	9,570	Atlantic Ocean	[1]
	Volga	3,692	2,294	1,380,000	8,060	Caspian Sea
	Sepik	1,126	700	80,321	8,000	Bismarck Sea
	Columbia	2,000	1,243	668,000	7,500	Pacific Ocean
	Danube	2,860	1,777	817,000	7,130	Black Sea
	Pechora	1,809	1,124	289,532	3,949	Barents Sea
	Fraser River	1,375	854	220,000	3,475	Pacific Ocean
	Northern Dvina River	744	462	357,052	3,332	White Sea	[1]
	Nile River	6,650	4,132	3,400,000	2,830	Mediterranean Sea	[1]
	Rhine	1,320	820	170,002	2,290	North Sea	[5]
	Salween	2,815	1,749	320,000	1,614	Andaman Sea
	Douro	927	576	97,682	714	Atlantic Ocean	[6]
	Okavango River	1,600	1,000	530,000	475 (350-1000 m³/s)	Okavango Delta
	Tagus	1087	675	80,600	444	Atlantic Ocean	[6]
	Ebro	910	565	80,093	426	Mediterranean Sea	[7]
	Minho	300	186	17,081	380	Atlantic Ocean	[6]
	Sebou River	458	284	40,000	137	Atlantic Ocean
	Guadiana	829	516	66,800	85	Atlantic Ocean	[6]
	River Thames	346	215	12,935	65.8	North Sea

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Rivers of the Earth^{[unreliable source?]}
2. ^ Banglapedia
3. ^ 6
4. ^ The Hydrographi Region of The Amazon
5. ^ [1]
6. ^ ^{a b c d} [2]
7. ^ [3]

See also

• List of rivers by length
• List of watersheds

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