| A | B |
|---|
| Yangtze | Longest in China and Asia; 3rd longest in world. Kunlun Mountains -> Tibetan Plateau -> Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, Shanghai -> South China Sea. Contains Three Gorges dam. |
| Brahmaputra | Tibetan Himalayas -> Assam -> Bangladesh -> Ganges Delta (largest in world). Disastrous flooding. |
| Yellow River | Second longest in China. Qinghai -> Bohai Gulf -> Yellow Sea. Name comes from large amount of loess silt. Connected to Yangtze via Grand Canal. |
| Ganges | Holiest river of Hinduism. Himalayas -> Ganges Delta -> Bay of Bengal. Distributaries include Hooghly (with Kolkata) and Padma. Basin home to 1/12 of all humans. |
| Mekong | Chief river of Southeast Asia. Eastern Tibet -> Laos/Thailand border -> Cambodia -> Southern Vietnam -> South China Sea. Contains cities of Vientiane (Laos) and Phnom Penh (Cambodia). |
| Tigris | Mesopotamia; Sumer and Akkad. Turkey -> Mosul -> Tikrit -> Baghdad -> Shatt al-Arab -> Persian Gulf. North and east of and shorter than Euphrates. |
| Euphrates | Mesopotamia; Fallujah and Babylon. Source in Zagros Mountains of Turkey. South and west of and longer than Tigris. |
| Irrawaddy | Chief river of Myanmar/Burma. Yangon -> Mandalay -> Gulf of Martaban -> Bay of Bengal. Delta is one of the world's largest rice-growing regions. Name comes from Sanskrit for "elephant." |
| Indus | Chief river of Pakistan; source of name "India." Tibet -> Arabian Sea. Tribuarties include Jhelum, Chanad, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej; these form the Punjab region. |
| Jordan River | Mount Hernon, Syria -> Lake Merom -> Sea of Galilee -> Dead Sea. Forms border between Jordan, West Bank, and Israel. Site of baptism of John the Baptist. |
