Mapping the World’s River Basins by Continent
27th March 2023
North America and South America each only have one continent-draining river–the Mississippi and the Amazon–while Africa has at least three (Nile, Congo, Niger, possibly the Zambezi) and Europe arguably only one (the Danube). Asia is just full of them: The Yellow and Yangtse, the Mekong, the Ganges and Indus, and one might almost be tempted to put the Tigris and Euphrates in that group.