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Blue Nile

The 73rd longest river in the world

1,783 km

The Blue Nile stretches roughly 1,783 km, flowing through Ethiopia, Sudan, making it one of the world's major rivers.

Flows through: Ethiopia, Sudan.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

Other major rivers

  1. Amazon6,992 km
  2. Nile6,650 km
  3. Yangtze River6,300 km
  4. Bian River5,806 km
  5. Yellow River5,464 km
  6. Paraná River4,880 km
  7. River Congo4,700 km
  8. Mekong River4,350 km