eurasia, are you even trying?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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Mountains not conveniently arranged along the edges of the continent ๐ค. Who designed this shit?
It depends on how you define a river. This map displays Rio de la Plata as a river, but that's debateable, officially it's an estuary. If you separate Parana and Uruguay rivers, than the Ob river basin in Asia is bigger than any of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drainage_basins_by_area
This is fascinating to see pictured!
I'd love to see a version expanded to the top 10.
top 26: https://live.staticflickr.com/5551/32212605922_ce300694e5_o.jpg
all of them: https://decolonialatlas.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/world-watersheds.png
too bad they aren't ranked by size. Also not as pretty as the OP.
Yeah I'd love to see more. The major rivers of China as well as the Niger and St. Lawrence would be awesome.
It's wild how close the Amazon river basin comes to the west coast of the continent without draining into the ocean on that side.
The Andes blocking all the good stuff from going into Peru, Bolivia and Chile
Well, there's a little bunch of hills over there blocking it.
Does Antarctica have any 'rivers'? Or does all the snow just stay there
Rhine river basin looks a lot bigger than I remember.
Why use Mercator?