Prelims · 3 Physical & World Geography · 3.9 World regional geography: features, resources and places

3.9.1 Major rivers of the world and cities on their banks

The Nile is the longest river, the Amazon carries the most water, and most great cities of the world grew at river crossings, confluences or mouths; exams test river–city pairs, which sea a river drains into and which lines of latitude it crosses.

  • APPSC Group 2 · Prelims
  • Standard level
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Key terms

  • Nile
  • Amazon
  • Yangtze
  • Mississippi
  • Congo
  • Niger
  • Zambezi
  • Volga
  • Danube
  • Rhine
  • Mekong
  • Ob
  • Yenisei
  • Lena
  • Huang He
  • confluence cities
  • Khartoum
  • Manaus
  • rivers crossing equator
  • Limpopo
  • transboundary rivers

What this note covers

  1. Core factsFoundation
  2. ExplainedStandard
  3. DeeperAdvanced
  4. Mains writingMains writing
  5. Common trapsFoundation
  6. Quick revisionFoundation

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