Rampaging riversFact file : locating rivers

By Natalia Way

The YangtzeRiver source : Qinghai

The river flows through : Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China , East China Sea near Shanghai

Continent : China

Length : 6300km

The Volga River source : The Valdai hills

The river flows through : The Valdai hills , Central Russia , Caspian Sea

Continent : Russia

Length : 3530km

The river ThamesRiver source : Gloucestershire , Thames Head

The river flows through : Wiltshire , Gloucestershire , Oxfordshire , Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Surrey , The Chilterns , an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty , Teddington and London

Continent : Europe

Length : 346km

The Mackenzie River

River source : Northwest Territories in the Great Slave Lake

The river flows through : within boundaries of the Northwest Territories of Canada , it’s tributaries spread out into a adjacent provinces

Continent : Canada

Length : 1738km

The River Nile River source : Eastern Africa

The river flows through : Eastern Africa , Tanzania , Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , The Democratic Republic , Kenya , Ethiopia , Eritrea , South Sudan ,and Egypt

Continent : Africa

Length : 6695km

The Murray River

River source : Australian Alps

The river flows through : New South Wales , Victoria , South Australia

Continent : Australia

Length : 2508km

The Mississippi

River source : Northern Minnesota in Lake Itasca

The river flows through : Montana , North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas , Illinois , Alabama , Louisiana , Missouri , Minnesota

Continent : North America

Length : 3778km

The Ganges River source : Gangotri Glacier

The river flows through : India territories , Bangladesh territories , Ganges basin , Nepal , China , Myanmar

Continent : India

Length : 2601km

The Amazon River source : Mantaro River

The river flows through : Peru , Bolivia , Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Brazil

Continent : America

Length : 6400km

The Congo RiverRiver source : Lualaba river

The river flows through : Muanda , Democratic of Republic of Congo , Central Africa , Angola , Zambia , Tanzania , Central Africa Republic , Cameroon

Continent : Africa

Length : 4700km