What's the Longest River on Earth?
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2018
- There's a lot of confusion surrounding the longest river on Earth, but I'm here to clear it all up. But I sure love talking about rivers, so here you go.
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For a river like the Amazon identifying where the mouth is isn't easy either. The mouth is so wide it's hard to judge where the mouth ends and the sea starts.
The Nile is more mysterious than I had assumed. But the Amazon is one of a kind. I remember reading somewhere that the entire Amazon basin has more fish species than the entire Atlantic Ocean.
It doesn't. There are far more species of fish in the ocean. However, the Amazon is home to the most species of freshwater fish.
@@tonybalsomosgimp3478 Atlantic. read please
I was talking about the Atlantic ocean, Malnutrition Boy. If you will, notice I said "ocean", and not oceans?
yeah very possible, it has one third the amount of fish species than every ocean combined so when just factoring in the Atlantic it could have more
Mooshimoca It doesn't.
Next they will include the distance between a cloud and the ground to measure rain's length and add it to the river.
That's hilarious 🤣
Then we add the distance to the fucking ocean
Hahaha got me! 😅
Everybody knows that the longest river in the world is 37 million Toyota Corollas long
Wrong channel
Dac DT
Honest mistake
Light all those shitboxes up and have the worlds longest fire snake..
Robert Parkinson nobody asked you
Jim Bartz Dude it’s a joke don’t take it seriously.
9:50 I propose that this dispute be settled by releasing a swarm of rubber duckies or other small floating object with beacons attached. Then the aggregate routes taken by the duckies can be measured so as to ascertain the average route of water flow, which may not follow either the straight path or the coast path.
RuBbEr DuCkS? Comeon man (good idea) but pollution... bruh
if this were feasible it would actually be a really good way to measure rivers lol
@@ALiBi212x
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
In 1992, 28000 rubber ducks and other floating objects were subject to accidental release from a loose shipping container. These ducks were tracked by oceanographers and made contributions to the study of ocean currents.
Nice idea. Lake Victoria will look like a giant bathtub
@Alex Ye so it was quite an accidental release on purpose...
TLDR; The Amazon River and if you disagree you’re just in deNile.
You're*
@@Jan_ne Bitch this is youtube nobody has time for that minor grammar.
@@amartinez97 I'm Nelle, I have country grammar
Of course, someone had to make that joke. Indenile, goodness
@@amartinez97 It's like saying grammar isn't important, have you ever heard of "Know Your Shit or Know You're Shit".
What if the ocean is just one very wide river
best comment on this video XD
where would this river be flowing from? and where would this river be flowing to?
@Karlis Bikis it would be flowing into its self and from it self
*hits blunt*
@Mark Lanzarotta The ocean
Originally, Lake Tanganyika flowed north into the Albert Nile, and the longest source of the Nile was in northern Zambia. This stopped in the Miocene period when the Virunga Volcanoes developed and filled the Rift Valley in Rwanda and blocked the flow, and now Lake Tanganyika overflows west into the Congo.
Makes sense
Only 12 thousand years ago Lake Michigan drained into the Mississippi during a brief phase as the Ice Age ended.
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@@andrewhammel5714 The great lakes have only existed for about 12,000 years.
I applaud the fact that you didn't just take the easy way out, but carefully examined not only the evidence presented, but also potential biases that the various sources of the information could have for putting forward their cases. Keep up the careful (and critical) explanations!
@Mark Lanzarotta Explain how.
@Mark Lanzarotta just because u said wrong doesn't mean its wrong unless you had an argument to back up your claim
3:00 Technically, a river's length can be set in stone (i.e. the Colorado River). It's just that, from the river's perspective, stone isn't terribly permanent.
Jethro-goro this joke is great
Top tier comment
Technically I’m gay
@@kanyewestbank9677😭
You remind me of that one teacher in every school who asks questions, make students guess but never give the correct answer. 🤣🤣
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
That is the best kind of teacher! They assume that you are capable of thinking. Unlike most teachers.
The idea is that you think and you research (and no I don't mean wikipedia). It's really how things should be taught. You should be taught not about a thing but how to learn about a thing on your own because even as a professional you never stop learning
It's about the journey not the destination.
It's called "The Socratic Method", after Greek philosopher Socrates 470-399BC.
When he said “sadd = barrier” I felt that
"Maricanos presaas"
He wrote the Arabic backwards, he wrote the das
Except he reverse spelled in Arabic diss 🤣😂
Actually it is pronounced "sudud" in Arabic سدود
@@samuraiyasuke3709 what are u saying I am Egyptian and you say it is سدود but it is not it is سد bec. سدود is the plural of سد
2:20
You basically explained integral calculus
woow good observation. The length of the sides of the river becomes infinite but the surface area becomes more accurate
Line integrals
"basically" because you can't start doing integral calculus with this explanation only.
Hahahahah that’s true
Yniq976 it becomes perfectly precise
10:26 Difficult for explorers to reach? Not if you have 3 second hand estate cars.
what i was gunna say
I was searching for Top Gear refrence.
Johan Sadowski or your a British man
What if you give Jeremy Clarkson a massive SUV
Welp... guess I gotta watch that special again
Very nice video and description of the dilemma. Just one correction: the team that re-discovered the headwaters of the Mantaro River as the most distant source was led by Rocky Contos. It was originally theorized by Loren McIntyre 20 years earlier. The first team to paddle from the Mantaro to the ocean was led by me, West Hansen.
That's cool, how old were you?
@@willywestsidee hes like 60, i found his website
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this is like the biggest flex ever
10:27 Breathtaking picture. The nature of the earth is absolutely beautiful
Do you mean blyatiful.
Of all the beautiful pictures is that really the most breathtaking? Its just trees. The Ethiopian highlands @ 7:30 ard truly amzaing
@@kaizermierkrazy6886 I did not say it was the most breathtaking.
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I think you'll find a brave British expedition led by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May found the source of the Nile.
I think that brave British expedition should stay on their island and live Americans to do expeditions from now on
The Nile was there while these people mentioned were still living in the caves. My ancestor swam in these rivers before you were even created.
Yanathan you're not making sense
Andrey Parunev the "british expedition" is for a tv show for cars.....
Ive been there, its in Uganda near jinja, we don't need Jeremy Clarkson there
Well thought out & great River info Sir. We thank you for your time putting this together.
A crash course, but how concisely it conveyed the amazing ability of a river to enthrall us and mystify the experts. Rivers are like tornadoes--they have a mind of their own.
Thank you for this marvelous video.
This is a great video man. Really good quality, informative and good graphics/animations. Now too binge watch all the rest.
I was once googling for this question many years ago and in the end it turned out to be confusing and frustrating me more.
Now I understand why this is so hard to be determined. Thanks for the useful info.
Francisco de Orellana traveled the entire length of the Amazon in 1542. "River of Darkness" is an absolutely fascinated book about this adventure.
Easy: the Nile starts where it leaves Lake Victoria, making the Amazon the world's longest river. Top Gear reconfirmed that in season 19, but then were required to muck around looking for some other "source" to fill out a two-hour two-part Africa Special. Argument settled - Lake Victoria is the source.
nongthip yeah but where in lake Victoria is the source? Lake Victoria is massive
The nile is the longest on earth but not largest in water volume than the amazon river.
The Amazon river is the largest by water volume but not longer than the nile river.
@@mocua2910 did you even watch the whole video?
@@mocua2910 Are you using the same parameters to measure the Nile and the Amazon? If so, what are they?
What if somebody pees on the source of the nile
It will most likely up to some degree have the possibility of reachingthe mediterranean
someone in my class asked if the yellow river is yellow because people pee in it
You have to do it all year round, without stopping from peeing to change the length of the river.
@@ilo3456 global warming will end
You'll have the longest pee ever.
Although i love geography i wouldn't have thought that i will enjoy a geography YT channel. Well, you proved me wrong and i thank you for that. Amazingly well done, each and every one of your videos. Respect.
The video: “nobody really knows who discovered the true source of the Nile”
Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond: 👁👄👁
he said that no one has discovered the true source of the Nile yet
Just found this video. Immediately went to comments to see if this was mentioned. Not disappointed.
I think you're missing his point. The physical facts are known and not in dispute. The question is about what we mean by "The Nile." Does it refer to the same thing as it did in the ancient or medieval eras, or does it have a new meaning in light of our more advanced knowledge of water flow through the region? This debate is similar to the debate regarding Pluto, prior to the general consensus that it's not a planet. None of the physical facts about Pluto were disputed, it's a question about the meaning of the words.
@@AndrewHiggins9 Lmao as I watched forward, the sheer technicalities and efforts to find out its length are boggling. Hopefully new expeditions are/have been funded for this
I see you are a man of culture as well 😏
Amazon River is the longest, the biggest, the everything when talking about water. Under the Amazon River bed there is another Amazon river flowing, so we have to count it twice.
@Sebbo h It's not a river, is a large aquifer, so it doesn't count here.
@@cmlds while it's called a river it will always be the longest river for me lol.
It's not correct to call it a river.
@@cmlds Yes but it's on its name
There's also a river above, the transpiration of the forest, it's the flying river, a lot of water too
They should get Saudi Arabia to measure the distance since they have no rivers haahhaha
we have tho
@@ASWE15 self made ones LMAO
Since they have no rivers they wouldn't know how to measure one. So no, it wouldn't work :))
@@ASWE15 it's a joke man, don't get too salty ;)
Lol even singapore has a *3 kilometer* river. I cant bother to change to miles. So suck it.
Endlessly fascinating, was worth a second viewing. Thanks for sharing and creating content!
I'd love to see the comparisons of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Indus rivers, in regards to overall length based on presumed or identified source.
if this channel has taught me anything, it's that there's a bigger river under the ice somewhere.
I was half expecting you to go all "while if underwater rivers count, the deep ocean thermohaline current running from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific is the longest" which would have been weak
That would be stretching it.
But if you want complications, changes in ocean level will give you plenty.
Not to mention inaccuracies in bathymetric measurements that deep. But, by any measurement, it would be longer than any sensible measurement of either the amazon or Nile. But yeah, nobody would call a deep sea current a "river" sensibly.
Man I also thought the same that he will surely go under the oceans 😂 and I am lowkey disappointed.
A saline river that traverses up & down deep ocean currents? mmm.
Very well thought out, researched, and presented! Thanks!
Amazon hands down. Why? Because I'm southamerican, long live regional bias.
I'd give you more than one like just because all amazonian rivers mentioned are from my 🇵🇪
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@@pinheadtheyumenikkifananti6969 ohh look someone couldn't get a joke and attempted to sound deep and meaningful TO A JOKE. Can you guess who is it?
@@hobogrifter my kind of bro!!! Continental bias FTW!!
The river that hold’s the title for being the longest may be in dispute. The river that holds the title for being the world’s GREATEST is beyond dispute. The mighty Amazon dwarfs all other rivers. It’s discharge into the Atlantic Ocean is so powerful that the ocean’s water is fresh for up to 100 miles from where the Amazon empties into it.
That's crazy wow
Why am I not surprised people are arguing over a river.
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Very interesting, and well presented. I hadn't thought there was any question about the Nile being the longest.
I are back to re-watch some older videos and my golly have you evolved greatly over 3 years!
Love this channel!!! Sooo interesting!!!
If you can please make a video about permafrost. It would be a great continuation of the previous videos
I'm half expecting them to find a couple of extra, tiny little tributaries and add and 1000 km to both.
9:58 I'd say it should be marked by two lengths, in a 3D space, straight, from the mouth of the Kagera to the geographic and vertical center of the lake, and then straight again, to the Nile.
The only way to be more accurate, IMO, would be to actually map the flow of the lake, and factor in flow volume of each tributary, and all of this changes with the season so it is a truly daunting question. But theoretically, if you could map all of the water molecules and determine it's sort of "predominant flow", that would be a solid basis for a final answer.
Ever since going to school I was thought that the world's longest river is the river Nile
And i was thought the Amazon was longer, with no lake Victoria and its source cheating.
Guess you could say, you were IN DE NILE
@@lukitasmol10 How can you start measuring the length of a river without establishing its source.The Amazon source is obvious while that of the Nile is yet to be resolved.There is cheating there.,And if you Amazons insist on competing a solo race then obviously you win.I.e in that solo race of yours become the 1st & the bottom.Fact,the source of River Nile lies South of L.Victoria.It can as well even be R. Limpopo or L.Tanganyika.That is the mystic Nile for you.Cradle of mankind.
Fascinating video, full of data and beautiful images, thank you!
That was super. I've walked every river of the Wye my humble local river in the UK and Wales and my brother and I always used to debate the sources of some of these and say that, in fact, it's the overall area with its streams and rivulets that forms the source of a river at its head. Who can say? I think it's down to the explorer that gets right up there. Mark
The length of the Amazon depends on whether you include the course south of Isla de Marajo, or whether you treat it as part of the Rio Tocantins.
Based on this information, I personally no longer considered the Nile River the longest, the Amazon River is obviously much bigger, because all connecting rivers should be counted as one river....
Nile too
This is good life lesson about that every seemingly simple answer to a simple question has a "depends" in it and the devil is always in the details.
Great video! It had never occurred to me to add in the rivers that flow into Victoria.
8:22 the letters are in the wrong order: in Arabic they should do right-to-left, and in this case must be connected in writing (i.e., سد).
Exactly - the video shows "duss" in Arabic!
"Dus"
I also thought the same, but wanna see more about Saad in any other video.
@ThirdeyeStrike k
@6:00 Hey, I've been there! That's the view from "The Chasm", a little walking track in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Nice.
Wonderful info...never thought it is like this...thanks for sharing
6:15 "and now, onto the Nile." (Shows footage of Lake Powell, AZ.)
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Great Info! Fantastic Delivery!!
very descriptive and full of new infos. Thanks.
Nile is clearly longer in straight length distance. Amazon is clearly longer by path length and obviously has more volume of water
You've got your facts wrong. Top Gear discovered the TRUE source of the Nile.
I’m very disappointed that wasn’t the picture they used for “throughout all of history”
You had me at Top gear!
Wasn't it grand tour the same but i think it was season 3
That was my favorite episode. That Africa adventure was amazing 👍
@@stefan5046 no it was top gear
Thank you. A very interesting and educational exploration. In the end we marvel at the wonderful complexities of earth and nature and how they continue to baffle man's attempts to box them into order. What a beautiful earth! What an amazing and complex creation!
Very clear explanations bro big ups man 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Are the Mountains of the Moon still considered to be one of the sources of the Nile?
Originally the Amazon flowed west into the Pacific, until the Andes arose and reversed the drainage. Given that, the longest known river that ever was, was the Congo flowing into the Amazon, when Africa was joined onto South America, before continental drift opened the Atlantic Ocean in the Triassic or Jurassic.
Fascinating. Well done.
Great info. So much more then I've ever heard
It seems pretty obvious to me that the distance through the lake should follow the low-point from the bottom of the tributary river to the mouth of the lake.
I.E. if you drained the lake, what path would the river take?
I think the line of highest flow should be the one used. Slightly harder to measure than in your definition, as you need to map the speed of the water at every depth.
Also, his definition of which tributary to follow is completely wrong. At every junction, you should always follow the one with highest flow, the one which contributes most water to the river. Not the longest, to artificially inflate the length numbers.
A line directly from the mouth of a tributary to the lake outflow isn't the direct equivalent of a line down the centre of the river. What I'm arguing for is to follow the path that the river would continue along if all the water in the lake suddenly disappeared.
I'm not saying "no water" I'm saying "temporarily empty the lake and see where the river flows"
"I.E. if you drained the lake, what path would the river take?" emm.. no path ? It will fill in drained lake and only then flow as it used to.
This is how the Lakes of the Saint John's River in Florida are measured but that doesn't help if the Lakebed is hypothetically perfectly flat.
You have provided a very interesting analysis and very educational. But it could be considered to be missing one key question. Do you measure from the coast or from the point in the river where the water is brackish, or is defined as saline. If you add that to the mix the amazon wins outright.
Fascinating! Thanks very much.
If anyone is wondering, when a river bends and breaks as shown in the video, it's called an Oxbow lake.
Pretty sure Top Gear found the source of the Nile
was about to say that haha
Tanganyika of course
Luqmaan Abrahams Exactly. How would Atlas not know this? Oh wait he’s Am-
8:22
Arabic should be written from right to left.
Istead of SADD you wrote "DS"
The Arabic is correct, the Latinization is also correct
@@lEGOBOT2565 دسّ (dass) is not سدّ (sadd)
Just like Hebrew! (I see your name)
Thnx for correction (as nobody is correcting it that's why thnx)
Are you now going to bomb gaza for that????
The Nile crosses through Lake Victoria and you can see its path from the surrounds of the lake, in Uganda. (A silver road in the waters) You have to carefully navigate across the river running through the lake, while using a boat because its turbulent. The waters of the Nile look different inside the lake.
My friend the source of Nile is Ethiopia!!!!
Nice work and video bro, keep up good work 😉🤗
Damn, there are a lot of numbers and names I didn't know. So informative!
At the end of the video: Oh they are Brasilian. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
Q: What is the longest river in the world?
A: Semantics, the river that takes us all to hell.
River Stix
Flint River
Thankee, sir, for a great river of knowledge I suppose. I think a river and a basin and delta, etc., are just water finding the lowest point and draining into where it feels fit, gravity, of course, and so on. But rivers are one of the very many beautiful things where we are. :)
The source of the River Nile is lake victoria, Jinja to be precise. When you reach the point depth and the ripples from the underground are evident to show that it the source of the Nile.
The Amazon river actually is called Solimões until it reaches the Negro around the Amazon Forest biggest city, Manaus. After that it is called Amazon.
That's only what the Brazilians call it
@no. But that was mentioned in the video, so your comment literally has no point, and the Brazilians didn't name it
i like how the river it reaches is called the "negro" river lol
Rio Negro e Solimões? I thought they were singers 😄
@@thekingcreeperissexy Because it is a black river, lel, negro in Portuguese means black
It's not about size, it's about your impact on the ecosystem.
Well then it’s amazon. Or the people that chop the trees down
Actually its the Nile because it is the sole source of water in the middle of the desert, making it surroundings the only arable land in hundreds of miles while the Amazon is one of many big rivers in the region, to the point that one of its tributaries has the fifth biggest volume of water of all the rivers in the world
Henrique Soares yeah sure Nile was the heart of a 9k year old civilization but the Amazon has 1/5 of the most types of animals and is getting cut down so a lot of the animals are dying
@@benadryl9192 That doesn't mean anything. The Nile has been, is and probably will still be more important for humans than the Amazon.
unavailable agreed but I never brought up humans. I think that the Amazon has a bigger impact on animals than the Nile
Great content watching from Uganda, the source of the river Nile
This was awesome!
Not even a single mention of James May and the Top Gear lads finding the source of the Nile, disappointing.
Source of Nile is Ethiopia
Ah I see you're a man of culture as well
@@rastaborko2333 no
I know, I was waiting for that reference!
Well, the name of the Channel is "Atlas Pro", not "Pop Culture Pro"
TOP GEAR HAS FOUND THE SOURCE OF THE NILE
Not sure if that is officially recognised.
@@@shebbs1 Of course it isn't, because it was done by white men.
@@sunnyjim1355 salty, i like it
@@sunnyjim1355 Wasn't David Livingstone a white man? He was the guy that spurred the Scramble for Africa.
....humungus EGO though?
As a geographer I was taught to measure with a flexible item like a piece of string which eliminates the fixed unit measuring problem.
Can you please do a series of the different countries .... that would be great coming from you
The River of Pain, Heartache, and Disappointment...
Answer: There is no consensus between Amazon or Nile. In my opinion, Amazon since they included lakes in the measurement of Nilo.
Nile is far longer... this video is propaganda against Africa... Nile is originated from Lake Victoria ib east Africa one of the largest lakes in the world...
Jumajas Jas Just because a river is connected to a large lake doesn’t mean the lake should be included in the measurement
Thomas Gray Africa is exotic. South America is disgusting
The Orinoco is the longest, sometimes. That, apparently, depends on the tides. The Casiquiare River connects the Orinoco to the Amazon. Part of the time the Orinoco drains into the Amazon but also drains into the ocean. During High tide the Amazon drains into the Orinoco through the Casiquiare but also flows into the ocean once the tide changes. The Casiquiare is navigable so the route from the mouth of the Orinoco to the headwaters of the Amazon makes the Orinoco the longest, sometimes.
Another awesome video man. you're great. At 8:17, I thought you might like to know, you're spelling the Arabic Sadd backwards. It happens often. Arabic, like Hebrew, is written right to left.
the longest river is the Congo-Amazon River.... at least historically....
Please elaborate?!
@@synceware1453 when Africa and South America 300 Mill. years ago were one continent, a river that sourced where nowadays Congo sources flew from there throug the whole cotinent till the Pacific Ocean. At that time the Andes were only small hills. When the continents broke up and the Andes were built the river separated in today's Congo and Amazon. The Amazon had till about 50 Mill years ago a big waterfall into the Atlantic Ocean.
@@ReisenderRaumplaner while im sceptic of the certainty with which you present theories about the geological features of land 300 million years ago as given facts, I thank you for your quick reply. That would have been one *thick* river indeed!
@@synceware1453 there enough hints claiming the theory as a plausible fact. Of course, it was big and thick.
It's not like the Andes shifted the slope of the entire continent of South America... it's doubtful the entire Amazon could possibly have changed direction....
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond knows.
what is it tho
this was really helpful for my online school!
At the question you stated if you should take the length of the coast line (lake Victoria) or just straight from incomming river to outgoing I think you answered that at the start of your film. It should be the length a ship has to sail from start to finish. So in Lakes the straight line.
Definitely, the Amazon is the longest river even if the nile was said to be in the past. I have used four parameters to find the origin of Mahakali (Kali) river -a border river between Nepal and India, which undoubtedly indicates LIMPIYADHURA is the origin of Mahakali. These four parameters are - river length, discharge, drainage area and stream order. The Amazon leads the Nile in all these four parameters. The way how to trace river course, if exists within the lake, is to get bathymetric map and decide the inundated river course looking inundated topography.
Funny, but no matter how huge Caspean sea is by volume, area, and rivers discharge in it, Baikal is still the deepest ;)
May, along with Clarkson & Hammond, found the source of the Nile
I see you're a man of culture as well
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very interesting, thank you!
Awesome video bro keep going....
In sha ALLAH your future is bright.
thanks, I hope so :)
6:23 wdym remains unanswered james may found it a few years back
Really educative &gives a satisfied feeling of virtual voyages through, in
I couldn't finish my original write up. I wanted to state that the video provided an excellent virtual voyages through the world's longest two rivers.
I always thought that the Amazon river always had more deposits of water, but that the Nile was always the longer of the 2. Very informative, I guess no one really knows...