Longest River of the World

Location - SOUTH AMERICA

Longest river of the world is Amazon. In particular, there has long been disagreement as to whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river. But some researchers accept that Amazon in fact is longer, because of its icy birth.

The Amazon is the greatest river in the world by so many measures; the volume of water it carries to the sea (approximately 20% of all the freshwater discharge into the oceans), the area of land that drains into it, and its length and width. It is one of the longest rivers in the world and, depending upon who you talk to, is anywhere between 6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long.