Top 10 largest river drainage basin in the world

The top 10 largest river drainage basins in the world

The Amazon river basin map

River	Location	Size of Area and Discharge rate
		Drainage basin (km2)	Discharge rate (m3/s)
1- Amazon	South America	6,150,000	175,000
2- Congo	Africa	3,822,000	39,000
3- Mississippi-Missouri	North America	3,222,000	17,270
4- Plata-Parana-Grande	South America	3,100,000	22,900
5- Nile	Africa	2,802,000	3,000
6-Yenisey	Russia	2,619,000	18,000
7- Lena	Russia	2,478,000	16,000
8- Ob-Irtysh	Russia	2,470,000	10,000
9- Niger	Africa	2,092,000	5,700
10- Amur	North Asia	2,050,000	9,800

Source: http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/earthscience/…/worldslargestriver.htm

Top 10 largest deltas in the world

The top 10 largest deltas in the world

Ganges-Brahmaputra delta

Mekong delta

River	Location	Size of Delta Area
		square kilometers	square miles
Ganges-Brahmaputra	Bangladesh/India	105,645	40,790
Mekong	Southeast Asia	93,781	36,209
Lena	Russia	43,563	16,820
Huang He	China	36,272	14,005
Mississippi	United States	33,670	13,000
Indus	Pakistan	29,524	11,400
Volga	Russia	27,224	10,511
Orinoco (Amacuro)	South America	22,500	8,700
Niger	Western Africa	19,135	7,388
Tigris-Euphrates	Southwest Asia	18,497	7,142

Source: http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/Basins-to-Dunes/Delta.html#b

Top 10 Widely Spoken Languages in the World

Top 10 Widely Spoken Languages

in the World

Mandarin Chinese tops the list of most popular world languages, with over a billion speakers. English trails in third place, with just over 320 million speakers. This data includes all speakers of the languages, not only native speakers.

Language	Approx. number of speakers
1. Chinese (Mandarin)	1,213,000,000
2. Spanish	329,000,000
3. English	328,000,000
4. Arabic	221,000,000
5. Hindi	182,000,000
6. Bengali	181,000,000
7. Portuguese	178,000,000
8. Russian	144,000,000
9. Japanese	122,000,000
10. German	90,000,000

Source: Ethnologue, 16th Edition.

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