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What river is older than the mountains?

French Broad River The French Broad River is the oldest river in the United States and the third oldest in the world, behind the Finke (Australia) and Meuse (Europe) rivers. It's older than the mountains that surround it and even predate the age of the dinosaurs.



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Geologically, the Brahmaputra River is considered one of the youngest rivers in the world. Due to the collision of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates, the Brahmaputra valley and its adjoining hill ranges are seismically active.

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The Congo is the deepest river in the world. Its headwaters are in the north-east of Zambia, between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa (Malawi), 1760 metres above sea level; it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Here is a list of five longest rivers of the world
  • Nile River: The longest river in the world.
  • Amazon River: Second longest and the largest by water flow.
  • Yangtze River: The longest river in Asia.
  • Mississippi-Missouri.
  • Yenisei.


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The Nile is a 4,130-mile (6,650 km) long river in northeastern Africa.

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The Neretva River is one of the natural symbols of Herzegovina. It is 230 km long, the longest tributary of the Adriatic Sea from the east coast. The portal Science Blurtit from Great Britain states that the Neretva is the coldest river in the world. The river basin covers a total area of 10,386 square kilometers.

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The Everglades is the world's slowest-moving river. When rain fills Lake Okeechobee, in south-central Florida, the lake overflows into the 50-foot wide, 1.5 million acre water filtration system and flows about one meter an hour toward the Gulf of Mexico, at the southern tip of the Sunshine State.

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Chinese environmental scientists recently identified the thinnest river in the world, only a dozen centimeters at its widest, on the Inner Mongolia Plateau in north China. As one of four branches entering Dalai Nur Lake in the Hexigten Grasslands nature reserve, this is the 17-km-long Haolai River.

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