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Molopo River

The 255th longest river in the world

970 km

The Molopo River (Afrikaans: Moloporivier) is one of the main rivers in Southern Africa. It has a length of approximately 960 kilometres and a catchment area of 367,201 km2 with Botswana, Namibia and South Africa sharing roughly about a third of the basin each.

Flows through: Botswana, South Africa.

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

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