List more long courses of water

Article in the course of drafting, search for new sources concerning the figures.

List the longest Fleuve S by decreasing order.

Between the Amazon and the Nile, longest is prone to debate since more than one century. The current consensus is to regard the Nile as longest. Nevertheless measurements vary between 6259 Kilometer S and 6800 kilometers for the Amazon and 5499 kilometers and 6690 kilometers for the Nile. Differences coming from the methods of measurements and the various definitions of the source and the estuary of a river. In 2007 a Brazilian team claimed to have discovered a new source for the Amazon which would tend to prove that the Amazon is longer (see on line on nationalgeographic.com and earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

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List of rivers in the world

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