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List of rivers of England
Rivers of England: the Severn (354 km, UK's longest), Thames, and Trent head a network of 63 major rivers managed as 10 river basin districts, with statutory main rivers designated under the Water Resources Act 1991.
List of rivers of Europe
The list of rivers of Europe covers the continent's principal watercourses, led by the Volga, Danube, and Rhine, though no official list exists because ranking varies by criterion.
List of rivers of France
Rivers of France: the seven major fleuves (Adour, Garonne, Loire, Meuse, Rhin, Rhône, Seine) per Eaufrance, with lengths, tributaries, basin management since 1964, and 2026 drought conditions.
List of rivers of India
Rivers of India: Himalayan systems (Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra), peninsular rivers (Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery, Narmada, Tapi), coastal and inland rivers, with basin areas, lengths, pollution status, waterways, and interlinking.
List of rivers of Kerala
Rivers of Kerala: 44 major rivers, 41 west-flowing to the Lakshadweep Sea and 3 east-flowing (Pambar, Kabani, Bhavani). Periyar is longest, Bharathapuzha has the largest basin.
List of rivers of Pakistan
Rivers of Pakistan: the Indus system, with eastern tributaries Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Beas and western Kabul and Kurram, governed by the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty and IRSA allocation.
List of rivers of the United States
Rivers of the United States are cataloged by USGS hydrologic units (21 regions, about 2,150 cataloging units) and ranked by length, basin area, and discharge; the Mississippi system averages 651,000 cfs, with the Missouri channel the longest at about 3,710 miles.
Lists of rivers
Lists of rivers rank rivers by length, discharge, or drainage-basin area; the Factbook lists rivers of 1,000 km or more, and sources disagree on Nile versus Amazon lengths.
Little Mecatina
Little Mecatina River (Rivière du Petit Mécatina) is a 545-590 km transboundary river of Labrador and Quebec's Lower North Shore, draining about 19,625 km2 into the Gulf of St. Lawrence; name from Innu makatinau, "big mountain".
Little Missouri
Little Missouri River: name of two U.S. rivers. The northern one drains 21,500 km² of Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas, flows through Theodore Roosevelt National Park to Lake Sakakawea; the Arkansas one joins the Ouachita River.
Logone
Logone River, Central Africa; tributary of the Chari, rising in Cameroon (Mbéré), joining the Chari at N'Djamena; 550 km, 73,700 km² basin, Yaérés floodplain, Maga dam, major Lake Chad inflow.
Loire
The Loire (la Loire) is France's longest river, over 1,000 km, draining one fifth of the country; a free-flowing "last wild river" whose valley holds UNESCO-listed châteaux country.
Lomami (landform)
Lomami River, a major left-bank tributary of the Congo River in the DR Congo, flowing south to north roughly parallel to the Congo; known for its narrow linear basin, biogeographic barrier role, and Lomami National Park.
Los Angeles River
The Los Angeles River, also called the LA River, is a 51-mile waterway from Canoga Park to Long Beach, mostly concrete-channelized after the 1938 flood and now the focus of major ecosystem restoration and recreation efforts.
Lower & Middle Indus
Lower & Middle Indus, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 703, the Indus basin downstream of Tarbela Dam in Pakistan and India; tropical floodplain rivers draining to the Arabian Sea, with endemic fishes and the Indus River dolphin.
Lower & Middle Salween
Lower & Middle Salween, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 722, spans the middle and lower Salween basin in Myanmar, China, and Thailand plus the Tenasserim River; 45 endemic fish species, threatened by proposed dams.
Lower Amur
Lower Amur: lowland reach of the Amur River in the Russian Far East and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 616, with the Ussuri and Khanka Lake basin; wide floodplains, high mollusc endemism, Lower Amur grayling, and Lake Bolon Ramsar wetland.
Lower Congo
Lower Congo: the ~350 km lower course of the Congo River from Pool Malebo to the Atlantic, dropping 280 m through rapids; also two FEOW freshwater ecoregions and the offshore Lower Congo sedimentary basin, noted for endemic, convergently evolved fish.
Lower Huang He
Lower Huang He (Lower Yellow River): the levee-confined lower reach of China's Yellow River from Taohuayu near Zhengzhou to the Bohai Sea; perched bed, 26 historical avulsions, water-sediment regulation since 2002.
Lower Lancang (Mekong)
Lower Lancang (Mekong), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 726, spans the Mekong from the Nam Kading upstream to Xishuangbanna across Burma, China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam; hill-stream endemic fish fauna, heavily dammed Lancang headwaters.
Lower Mackenzie
Lower Mackenzie (FEOW ecoregion 105) is a Nearctic polar-freshwaters ecoregion in Canada covering the lower Mackenzie River, Great Bear Lake, and tributaries such as the Liard, draining to the Arctic Ocean, with 38 fish species from Beringian and Mississippian refugia.
Lower Mississippi
Lower Mississippi: the 1,535-km unimpounded reach of the Mississippi River from the Ohio River confluence at Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico; heavily leveed floodplain, over 90% floodplain loss, delta restoration efforts.
Lower Niger - Benue
Lower Niger - Benue (FEOW ecoregion 505): freshwater ecoregion covering the Benue basin and the lower and middle Niger from below Tombouctou to the Niger Delta, with about 202 fish species, 17 endemics, biannual black and white floods, and Kainji and Jebba dam regulation.
Lower Nile
Lower Nile (FEOW ecoregion 523) is a xeric freshwater ecoregion spanning the Nile from Khartoum to the Nile Delta across Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia; no endemic fish, vulnerable conservation status, Priority Class V.
Lower Parana
Lower Parana, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 345 (Bajo Paraná), the lower Paraná River drainage below Itaipú Dam and Guaíra Falls across Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay; temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands with 53 endemic fish species ending in the Río de la Plata delta.
Lower Tigris & Euphrates
Lower Tigris & Euphrates is a freshwater ecoregion covering the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Mesopotamian floodplain of Iraq and adjacent Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Kuwait.
Lower Yangtze
Lower Yangtze: the easternmost reach of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) with Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai; temperate floodplain wetlands, polder agriculture, large lakes, and endemic fishes draining to the East China Sea.
Lower Zambezi
Lower Zambezi: the 593 km Zambezi reach below Cahora Bassa gorge, a freshwater ecoregion with delta, and Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park, a water-based safari and elephant conservation landscape.
Lualaba (луалаба, rivers_lake_centerlines:43)
The Lualaba (луалаба) is the headstream and upper course of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, named the Congo at Kisangani.
Lukeni
Lukeni (Lukenie, Lukenye), a 1,225 km river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rising in Sankuru province at about 570 m and joining the Fimi near Kutu; eighth longest DRC river, navigable to Kole.