What's the Longest River on Earth?

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  • There's a lot of confusion surrounding the longest river on Earth, but I'm here to clear it all up. But I sure love talking about rivers, so here you go.
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  • @polderdebanjan
    @polderdebanjan 5 років тому +1245

    The Nile is more mysterious than I had assumed. But the Amazon is one of a kind. I remember reading somewhere that the entire Amazon basin has more fish species than the entire Atlantic Ocean.

    • @tonybalsomosgimp3478
      @tonybalsomosgimp3478 5 років тому +224

      It doesn't. There are far more species of fish in the ocean. However, the Amazon is home to the most species of freshwater fish.

    • @malnutritionboy
      @malnutritionboy 5 років тому +47

      @@tonybalsomosgimp3478 Atlantic. read please

    • @tonybalsomosgimp3478
      @tonybalsomosgimp3478 5 років тому +136

      I was talking about the Atlantic ocean, Malnutrition Boy. If you will, notice I said "ocean", and not oceans?

    • @Mooshimoca
      @Mooshimoca 5 років тому +22

      yeah very possible, it has one third the amount of fish species than every ocean combined so when just factoring in the Atlantic it could have more

    • @tonybalsomosgimp3478
      @tonybalsomosgimp3478 5 років тому +18

      Mooshimoca It doesn't.

  • @OokileyGMR
    @OokileyGMR 3 роки тому +99

    Next they will include the distance between a cloud and the ground to measure rain's length and add it to the river.

    • @nhrahat188
      @nhrahat188 3 роки тому +4

      That's hilarious 🤣

    • @AA_04
      @AA_04 2 роки тому +4

      Then we add the distance to the fucking ocean

    • @joshsalamero
      @joshsalamero 2 роки тому

      Hahaha got me! 😅

    • @worldview730
      @worldview730 2 місяці тому

      Then to the source of the rain valve that released the dam thing in the first place. Then to God (Infinity) who created it all.

  • @mjribes
    @mjribes 3 роки тому +82

    For a river like the Amazon identifying where the mouth is isn't easy either. The mouth is so wide it's hard to judge where the mouth ends and the sea starts.

  • @sygeno_yt
    @sygeno_yt 4 роки тому +2676

    What if the ocean is just one very wide river

    • @amitmittal6492
      @amitmittal6492 4 роки тому +49

      best comment on this video XD

    • @karlisbikis5013
      @karlisbikis5013 4 роки тому +97

      where would this river be flowing from? and where would this river be flowing to?

    • @sygeno_yt
      @sygeno_yt 4 роки тому +216

      @Karlis Bikis it would be flowing into its self and from it self

    • @dinamosflams
      @dinamosflams 4 роки тому +66

      *hits blunt*

    • @jolez_4869
      @jolez_4869 4 роки тому +35

      @Mark Lanzarotta The ocean

  • @anthonyappleyard5688
    @anthonyappleyard5688 4 роки тому +89

    Originally, Lake Tanganyika flowed north into the Albert Nile, and the longest source of the Nile was in northern Zambia. This stopped in the Miocene period when the Virunga Volcanoes developed and filled the Rift Valley in Rwanda and blocked the flow, and now Lake Tanganyika overflows west into the Congo.

    • @allankisembo5934
      @allankisembo5934 3 роки тому +3

      Makes sense

    • @andrewhammel5714
      @andrewhammel5714 3 роки тому +2

      Only 12 thousand years ago Lake Michigan drained into the Mississippi during a brief phase as the Ice Age ended.

    • @gnanaganesh5937
      @gnanaganesh5937 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/KEYyYt8SnZM/v-deo.html .

    • @orangeyewglad
      @orangeyewglad Рік тому

      @@andrewhammel5714 The great lakes have only existed for about 12,000 years.

  • @Dell-ol6hb
    @Dell-ol6hb 5 років тому +3690

    TLDR; The Amazon River and if you disagree you’re just in deNile.

    • @Jan_ne
      @Jan_ne 5 років тому +131

      You're*

    • @amartinez97
      @amartinez97 5 років тому +124

      @@Jan_ne Bitch this is youtube nobody has time for that minor grammar.

    • @Jan_ne
      @Jan_ne 5 років тому +44

      @@amartinez97 I'm Nelle, I have country grammar

    • @TheSuperShepherd
      @TheSuperShepherd 5 років тому +25

      Of course, someone had to make that joke. Indenile, goodness

    • @Alextopgaming
      @Alextopgaming 5 років тому +72

      @@amartinez97 It's like saying grammar isn't important, have you ever heard of "Know Your Shit or Know You're Shit".

  • @hefruth
    @hefruth 5 років тому +119

    I applaud the fact that you didn't just take the easy way out, but carefully examined not only the evidence presented, but also potential biases that the various sources of the information could have for putting forward their cases. Keep up the careful (and critical) explanations!

    • @quiteliteral3911
      @quiteliteral3911 4 роки тому +1

      @Mark Lanzarotta Explain how.

    • @islamicschoolofmemestudies
      @islamicschoolofmemestudies 4 роки тому +1

      @Mark Lanzarotta just because u said wrong doesn't mean its wrong unless you had an argument to back up your claim

  • @RamdomView
    @RamdomView 4 роки тому +423

    9:50 I propose that this dispute be settled by releasing a swarm of rubber duckies or other small floating object with beacons attached. Then the aggregate routes taken by the duckies can be measured so as to ascertain the average route of water flow, which may not follow either the straight path or the coast path.

    • @wesleyparish8280
      @wesleyparish8280 4 роки тому +26

      RuBbEr DuCkS? Comeon man (good idea) but pollution... bruh

    • @ALiBi212x
      @ALiBi212x 4 роки тому +23

      if this were feasible it would actually be a really good way to measure rivers lol

    • @RamdomView
      @RamdomView 4 роки тому +71

      @@ALiBi212x
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
      In 1992, 28000 rubber ducks and other floating objects were subject to accidental release from a loose shipping container. These ducks were tracked by oceanographers and made contributions to the study of ocean currents.

    • @Heioshi
      @Heioshi 4 роки тому +18

      Nice idea. Lake Victoria will look like a giant bathtub

    • @linhhoang1363
      @linhhoang1363 4 роки тому +2

      @Alex Ye so it was quite an accidental release on purpose...

  • @yeaolon
    @yeaolon 4 роки тому +747

    Everybody knows that the longest river in the world is 37 million Toyota Corollas long

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 4 роки тому +53

      Wrong channel

    • @wyolaskan1868
      @wyolaskan1868 4 роки тому +7

      Dac DT
      Honest mistake

    • @Parky427
      @Parky427 4 роки тому +2

      Light all those shitboxes up and have the worlds longest fire snake..

    • @yeaolon
      @yeaolon 4 роки тому +4

      Robert Parkinson nobody asked you

    • @yeaolon
      @yeaolon 4 роки тому +3

      Jim Bartz Dude it’s a joke don’t take it seriously.

  • @westhansen4904
    @westhansen4904 4 роки тому +44

    Very nice video and description of the dilemma. Just one correction: the team that re-discovered the headwaters of the Mantaro River as the most distant source was led by Rocky Contos. It was originally theorized by Loren McIntyre 20 years earlier. The first team to paddle from the Mantaro to the ocean was led by me, West Hansen.

    • @willywestsidee
      @willywestsidee 2 роки тому

      That's cool, how old were you?

    • @thestral1676
      @thestral1676 2 роки тому

      @@willywestsidee hes like 60, i found his website

    • @gnanaganesh5937
      @gnanaganesh5937 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/KEYyYt8SnZM/v-deo.html .

    • @skyfeelan
      @skyfeelan 10 місяців тому +2

      this is like the biggest flex ever

  • @Jethro-goro
    @Jethro-goro 5 років тому +274

    3:00 Technically, a river's length can be set in stone (i.e. the Colorado River). It's just that, from the river's perspective, stone isn't terribly permanent.

  • @julianbell9161
    @julianbell9161 5 років тому +624

    2:20
    You basically explained integral calculus

    • @yniq9769
      @yniq9769 5 років тому +56

      woow good observation. The length of the sides of the river becomes infinite but the surface area becomes more accurate

    • @kckdude913
      @kckdude913 5 років тому +11

      Line integrals

    • @meandmetoo8436
      @meandmetoo8436 5 років тому +9

      "basically" because you can't start doing integral calculus with this explanation only.

    • @techfahim6137
      @techfahim6137 5 років тому

      Hahahahah that’s true

    • @techfahim6137
      @techfahim6137 5 років тому

      Yniq976 it becomes perfectly precise

  • @johan3561
    @johan3561 5 років тому +597

    10:26 Difficult for explorers to reach? Not if you have 3 second hand estate cars.

    • @natesmith9007
      @natesmith9007 5 років тому +12

      what i was gunna say

    • @mikrofonija8885
      @mikrofonija8885 5 років тому +45

      I was searching for Top Gear refrence.

    • @FakeCrowP5R
      @FakeCrowP5R 5 років тому +4

      Johan Sadowski or your a British man

    • @ishandey6061
      @ishandey6061 5 років тому +1

      What if you give Jeremy Clarkson a massive SUV

    • @amicloud_yt
      @amicloud_yt 5 років тому +4

      Welp... guess I gotta watch that special again

  • @deepakm3668
    @deepakm3668 4 роки тому +408

    You remind me of that one teacher in every school who asks questions, make students guess but never give the correct answer. 🤣🤣

    • @xxlextra4737
      @xxlextra4737 4 роки тому +1

      hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    • @demitraferles7970
      @demitraferles7970 4 роки тому +24

      That is the best kind of teacher! They assume that you are capable of thinking. Unlike most teachers.

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire 3 роки тому +7

      The idea is that you think and you research (and no I don't mean wikipedia). It's really how things should be taught. You should be taught not about a thing but how to learn about a thing on your own because even as a professional you never stop learning

    • @fredjones7705
      @fredjones7705 3 роки тому

      It's about the journey not the destination.

    • @johanrunfeldt7174
      @johanrunfeldt7174 3 роки тому

      It's called "The Socratic Method", after Greek philosopher Socrates 470-399BC.

  • @jacoblees312
    @jacoblees312 4 роки тому +386

    When he said “sadd = barrier” I felt that

    • @zxera9702
      @zxera9702 4 роки тому +3

      "Maricanos presaas"

    • @tovarischkarno4390
      @tovarischkarno4390 4 роки тому +19

      He wrote the Arabic backwards, he wrote the das

    • @raniayoussef5599
      @raniayoussef5599 4 роки тому +6

      Except he reverse spelled in Arabic diss 🤣😂

    • @samuraiyasuke3709
      @samuraiyasuke3709 3 роки тому +3

      Actually it is pronounced "sudud" in Arabic سدود

    • @YASSINAEGY
      @YASSINAEGY 3 роки тому +2

      @@samuraiyasuke3709 what are u saying I am Egyptian and you say it is سدود but it is not it is سد bec. سدود is the plural of سد

  • @Rhys123
    @Rhys123 5 років тому +788

    I'm here before this blows up into a amazing channel-12/10/18

  • @miZuTiERia
    @miZuTiERia 5 років тому +15

    I was once googling for this question many years ago and in the end it turned out to be confusing and frustrating me more.
    Now I understand why this is so hard to be determined. Thanks for the useful info.

  • @mattllaves
    @mattllaves 5 років тому +1072

    What if somebody pees on the source of the nile

    • @ilo3456
      @ilo3456 5 років тому +154

      It will most likely up to some degree have the possibility of reachingthe mediterranean

    • @mr.dawson9141
      @mr.dawson9141 5 років тому +261

      someone in my class asked if the yellow river is yellow because people pee in it

    • @tudormardare66
      @tudormardare66 5 років тому +79

      You have to do it all year round, without stopping from peeing to change the length of the river.

    • @shakibm1558
      @shakibm1558 5 років тому +24

      @@ilo3456 global warming will end

    • @piteoswaldo
      @piteoswaldo 5 років тому +84

      You'll have the longest pee ever.

  • @stevehinnenkamp5625
    @stevehinnenkamp5625 4 роки тому +11

    A crash course, but how concisely it conveyed the amazing ability of a river to enthrall us and mystify the experts. Rivers are like tornadoes--they have a mind of their own.
    Thank you for this marvelous video.

  • @ssiipp7848
    @ssiipp7848 4 роки тому +48

    10:27 Breathtaking picture. The nature of the earth is absolutely beautiful

    • @danielmueller1443
      @danielmueller1443 4 роки тому

      Do you mean blyatiful.

    • @kaizermierkrazy6886
      @kaizermierkrazy6886 3 роки тому +1

      Of all the beautiful pictures is that really the most breathtaking? Its just trees. The Ethiopian highlands @ 7:30 ard truly amzaing

    • @ssiipp7848
      @ssiipp7848 3 роки тому

      @@kaizermierkrazy6886 I did not say it was the most breathtaking.

  • @lukas.caldwell
    @lukas.caldwell 5 років тому +461

    Why am I not surprised people are arguing over a river.

    • @thelinedrive
      @thelinedrive 5 років тому +8

      Can I Get 1000 Subscribers Without any videos? Because nerds are wonderful pedantic assholes and they must be treasured for this.

    • @vinnie4538
      @vinnie4538 5 років тому +1

      Because your an intellectual

    • @wild1p329
      @wild1p329 5 років тому +15

      @@vinnie4538 *you're 😝

    • @jobvandelaar7977
      @jobvandelaar7977 5 років тому +5

      People want others to say that they are right and everyone has different opinions, so they will argue until someone says that he is right. Then they go play Fortnite again lmao😂

    • @jacoblees312
      @jacoblees312 4 роки тому

      Wild1 P 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚.

  • @kayzeaza
    @kayzeaza 5 років тому +2069

    They should get Saudi Arabia to measure the distance since they have no rivers haahhaha

    • @ASWE15
      @ASWE15 5 років тому +31

      we have tho

    • @techy5045
      @techy5045 5 років тому +227

      @@ASWE15 self made ones LMAO

    • @jerryspringer5211
      @jerryspringer5211 5 років тому +84

      Since they have no rivers they wouldn't know how to measure one. So no, it wouldn't work :))

    • @jerryspringer5211
      @jerryspringer5211 5 років тому +49

      @@ASWE15 it's a joke man, don't get too salty ;)

    • @waylong4797
      @waylong4797 5 років тому +59

      Lol even singapore has a *3 kilometer* river. I cant bother to change to miles. So suck it.

  • @ABC-fl8zb
    @ABC-fl8zb 5 років тому +212

    I think you'll find a brave British expedition led by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May found the source of the Nile.

    • @idkman4655
      @idkman4655 5 років тому +4

      I think that brave British expedition should stay on their island and live Americans to do expeditions from now on

    • @yanathanduru2828
      @yanathanduru2828 5 років тому +15

      The Nile was there while these people mentioned were still living in the caves. My ancestor swam in these rivers before you were even created.

    • @mazaga1850
      @mazaga1850 5 років тому +25

      Yanathan you're not making sense

    • @mazaga1850
      @mazaga1850 5 років тому +16

      Andrey Parunev the "british expedition" is for a tv show for cars.....

    • @KIM-xl6zs
      @KIM-xl6zs 5 років тому +6

      Ive been there, its in Uganda near jinja, we don't need Jeremy Clarkson there

  • @johanherrera6413
    @johanherrera6413 4 роки тому +635

    Amazon hands down. Why? Because I'm southamerican, long live regional bias.

    • @carlosalbertofernandezvele7574
      @carlosalbertofernandezvele7574 4 роки тому +22

      I'd give you more than one like just because all amazonian rivers mentioned are from my 🇵🇪

    • @channel13632
      @channel13632 4 роки тому +1

      Upload a video

    • @hobogrifter
      @hobogrifter 4 роки тому +6

      I'm from the US America bias

    • @johanherrera6413
      @johanherrera6413 4 роки тому +2

      @@pinheadtheyumenikkifananti6969 ohh look someone couldn't get a joke and attempted to sound deep and meaningful TO A JOKE. Can you guess who is it?

    • @johanherrera6413
      @johanherrera6413 4 роки тому +3

      @@hobogrifter my kind of bro!!! Continental bias FTW!!

  • @yourroyalhighness7662
    @yourroyalhighness7662 4 роки тому +25

    The river that hold’s the title for being the longest may be in dispute. The river that holds the title for being the world’s GREATEST is beyond dispute. The mighty Amazon dwarfs all other rivers. It’s discharge into the Atlantic Ocean is so powerful that the ocean’s water is fresh for up to 100 miles from where the Amazon empties into it.

    • @tonyh7994
      @tonyh7994 4 роки тому +1

      That's crazy wow

  • @sammuelle77
    @sammuelle77 5 років тому +65

    This is a great video man. Really good quality, informative and good graphics/animations. Now too binge watch all the rest.

  • @zacharywoodman6445
    @zacharywoodman6445 5 років тому +239

    I was half expecting you to go all "while if underwater rivers count, the deep ocean thermohaline current running from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific is the longest" which would have been weak

    • @musaran2
      @musaran2 5 років тому +2

      That would be stretching it.
      But if you want complications, changes in ocean level will give you plenty.

    • @zacharywoodman6445
      @zacharywoodman6445 5 років тому +8

      Not to mention inaccuracies in bathymetric measurements that deep. But, by any measurement, it would be longer than any sensible measurement of either the amazon or Nile. But yeah, nobody would call a deep sea current a "river" sensibly.

    • @doubleaa6980
      @doubleaa6980 5 років тому

      Man I also thought the same that he will surely go under the oceans 😂 and I am lowkey disappointed.

    • @hydrodwarf
      @hydrodwarf 4 роки тому

      A saline river that traverses up & down deep ocean currents? mmm.

  • @DS-ud6ys
    @DS-ud6ys 9 місяців тому +4

    Francisco de Orellana traveled the entire length of the Amazon in 1542. "River of Darkness" is an absolutely fascinated book about this adventure.

  • @r3cy
    @r3cy 3 роки тому +20

    if this channel has taught me anything, it's that there's a bigger river under the ice somewhere.

  • @garoul17
    @garoul17 4 роки тому +31

    I'd love to see the comparisons of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Indus rivers, in regards to overall length based on presumed or identified source.

  • @nongthip
    @nongthip 4 роки тому +10

    Easy: the Nile starts where it leaves Lake Victoria, making the Amazon the world's longest river. Top Gear reconfirmed that in season 19, but then were required to muck around looking for some other "source" to fill out a two-hour two-part Africa Special. Argument settled - Lake Victoria is the source.

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 4 роки тому +2

      nongthip yeah but where in lake Victoria is the source? Lake Victoria is massive

    • @mocua2910
      @mocua2910 4 роки тому +1

      The nile is the longest on earth but not largest in water volume than the amazon river.
      The Amazon river is the largest by water volume but not longer than the nile river.

    • @guilhermeweber2340
      @guilhermeweber2340 3 роки тому +2

      @@mocua2910 did you even watch the whole video?

    • @westhansen5735
      @westhansen5735 Рік тому

      @@mocua2910 Are you using the same parameters to measure the Nile and the Amazon? If so, what are they?

  • @Marina-xu9rr
    @Marina-xu9rr 3 роки тому +56

    Amazon River is the longest, the biggest, the everything when talking about water. Under the Amazon River bed there is another Amazon river flowing, so we have to count it twice.

    • @cmlds
      @cmlds 3 роки тому +4

      @Sebbo h It's not a river, is a large aquifer, so it doesn't count here.

    • @johnt3606
      @johnt3606 3 роки тому

      @@cmlds while it's called a river it will always be the longest river for me lol.

    • @cmlds
      @cmlds 3 роки тому

      It's not correct to call it a river.

    • @johnt3606
      @johnt3606 3 роки тому

      @@cmlds Yes but it's on its name

    • @pandorski35000
      @pandorski35000 3 роки тому +1

      There's also a river above, the transpiration of the forest, it's the flying river, a lot of water too

  • @appleislander8536
    @appleislander8536 5 років тому +31

    I'm half expecting them to find a couple of extra, tiny little tributaries and add and 1000 km to both.

  • @chris_1825
    @chris_1825 3 роки тому +105

    The video: “nobody really knows who discovered the true source of the Nile”
    Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond: 👁👄👁

    • @Zeroneii3
      @Zeroneii3 3 роки тому +9

      he said that no one has discovered the true source of the Nile yet

    • @lejibus
      @lejibus 3 роки тому +4

      Just found this video. Immediately went to comments to see if this was mentioned. Not disappointed.

    • @AndrewHiggins9
      @AndrewHiggins9 3 роки тому +10

      I think you're missing his point. The physical facts are known and not in dispute. The question is about what we mean by "The Nile." Does it refer to the same thing as it did in the ancient or medieval eras, or does it have a new meaning in light of our more advanced knowledge of water flow through the region? This debate is similar to the debate regarding Pluto, prior to the general consensus that it's not a planet. None of the physical facts about Pluto were disputed, it's a question about the meaning of the words.

    • @redactedz6146
      @redactedz6146 3 роки тому +3

      @@AndrewHiggins9 Lmao as I watched forward, the sheer technicalities and efforts to find out its length are boggling. Hopefully new expeditions are/have been funded for this

    • @nuclearnadal4601
      @nuclearnadal4601 3 роки тому +3

      I see you are a man of culture as well 😏

  • @creounity
    @creounity 4 роки тому +172

    8:22 the letters are in the wrong order: in Arabic they should do right-to-left, and in this case must be connected in writing (i.e., سد).

    • @NeopreneLinguist
      @NeopreneLinguist 4 роки тому +13

      Exactly - the video shows "duss" in Arabic!

    • @soos4719
      @soos4719 4 роки тому +1

      "Dus"

    • @ihtesham_emon
      @ihtesham_emon 4 роки тому

      I also thought the same, but wanna see more about Saad in any other video.

    • @jjsdumbshit2792
      @jjsdumbshit2792 3 роки тому

      @ThirdeyeStrike k

  • @anthonyappleyard5688
    @anthonyappleyard5688 4 роки тому +7

    The length of the Amazon depends on whether you include the course south of Isla de Marajo, or whether you treat it as part of the Rio Tocantins.

  • @aleshiatisha4897
    @aleshiatisha4897 3 роки тому +37

    Ever since going to school I was thought that the world's longest river is the river Nile

    • @lukitasmol10
      @lukitasmol10 3 роки тому +2

      And i was thought the Amazon was longer, with no lake Victoria and its source cheating.

    • @UltimateDurzan
      @UltimateDurzan 2 роки тому

      Guess you could say, you were IN DE NILE

  • @jagatk.bhusal3037
    @jagatk.bhusal3037 5 років тому +5

    Definitely, the Amazon is the longest river even if the nile was said to be in the past. I have used four parameters to find the origin of Mahakali (Kali) river -a border river between Nepal and India, which undoubtedly indicates LIMPIYADHURA is the origin of Mahakali. These four parameters are - river length, discharge, drainage area and stream order. The Amazon leads the Nile in all these four parameters. The way how to trace river course, if exists within the lake, is to get bathymetric map and decide the inundated river course looking inundated topography.

    • @idkman4655
      @idkman4655 5 років тому

      Funny, but no matter how huge Caspean sea is by volume, area, and rivers discharge in it, Baikal is still the deepest ;)

  • @gothamjetskier776
    @gothamjetskier776 4 роки тому +3

    Well thought out & great River info Sir. We thank you for your time putting this together.

  • @bonob0123
    @bonob0123 4 роки тому +4

    Nile is clearly longer in straight length distance. Amazon is clearly longer by path length and obviously has more volume of water

  • @alexjago51
    @alexjago51 5 років тому +125

    It seems pretty obvious to me that the distance through the lake should follow the low-point from the bottom of the tributary river to the mouth of the lake.
    I.E. if you drained the lake, what path would the river take?

    • @piteoswaldo
      @piteoswaldo 5 років тому +7

      I think the line of highest flow should be the one used. Slightly harder to measure than in your definition, as you need to map the speed of the water at every depth.
      Also, his definition of which tributary to follow is completely wrong. At every junction, you should always follow the one with highest flow, the one which contributes most water to the river. Not the longest, to artificially inflate the length numbers.

    • @alexjago51
      @alexjago51 5 років тому +5

      A line directly from the mouth of a tributary to the lake outflow isn't the direct equivalent of a line down the centre of the river. What I'm arguing for is to follow the path that the river would continue along if all the water in the lake suddenly disappeared.

    • @alexjago51
      @alexjago51 5 років тому +1

      I'm not saying "no water" I'm saying "temporarily empty the lake and see where the river flows"

    • @AG-ig8uf
      @AG-ig8uf 5 років тому +5

      "I.E. if you drained the lake, what path would the river take?" emm.. no path ? It will fill in drained lake and only then flow as it used to.

    • @1TakoyakiStore
      @1TakoyakiStore 5 років тому

      This is how the Lakes of the Saint John's River in Florida are measured but that doesn't help if the Lakebed is hypothetically perfectly flat.

  • @easymac79
    @easymac79 5 років тому +7

    9:58 I'd say it should be marked by two lengths, in a 3D space, straight, from the mouth of the Kagera to the geographic and vertical center of the lake, and then straight again, to the Nile.
    The only way to be more accurate, IMO, would be to actually map the flow of the lake, and factor in flow volume of each tributary, and all of this changes with the season so it is a truly daunting question. But theoretically, if you could map all of the water molecules and determine it's sort of "predominant flow", that would be a solid basis for a final answer.

  • @bryandepaepe5984
    @bryandepaepe5984 3 роки тому +10

    This is good life lesson about that every seemingly simple answer to a simple question has a "depends" in it and the devil is always in the details.

  • @vanta1140
    @vanta1140 4 роки тому +184

    You've got your facts wrong. Top Gear discovered the TRUE source of the Nile.

    • @DavidKing-qt2vx
      @DavidKing-qt2vx 4 роки тому +11

      I’m very disappointed that wasn’t the picture they used for “throughout all of history”

    • @MalletCNCWorks
      @MalletCNCWorks 4 роки тому +6

      You had me at Top gear!

    • @stefan5046
      @stefan5046 4 роки тому +1

      Wasn't it grand tour the same but i think it was season 3

    • @XEddieX24
      @XEddieX24 4 роки тому +2

      That was my favorite episode. That Africa adventure was amazing 👍

    • @FredLimestone
      @FredLimestone 4 роки тому +7

      @@stefan5046 no it was top gear

  • @edwinreveron870
    @edwinreveron870 4 роки тому +8

    Based on this information, I personally no longer considered the Nile River the longest, the Amazon River is obviously much bigger, because all connecting rivers should be counted as one river....

  • @nigelrg1
    @nigelrg1 5 років тому +5

    Very interesting, and well presented. I hadn't thought there was any question about the Nile being the longest.

  • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
    @user-gr9fq9gt9w 5 років тому +236

    8:22
    Arabic should be written from right to left.
    Istead of SADD you wrote "DS"

    • @lEGOBOT2565
      @lEGOBOT2565 5 років тому +8

      The Arabic is correct, the Latinization is also correct

    • @Leoptxr
      @Leoptxr 5 років тому +65

      @@lEGOBOT2565 دسّ (dass) is not سدّ (sadd)

    • @tttylerpantsthesquirrel2814
      @tttylerpantsthesquirrel2814 5 років тому +10

      Just like Hebrew! (I see your name)

    • @ishmamtaahasattar4810
      @ishmamtaahasattar4810 5 років тому +4

      Thnx for correction (as nobody is correcting it that's why thnx)

    • @mohammadsabah8619
      @mohammadsabah8619 5 років тому +9

      Are you now going to bomb gaza for that????

  • @andreluizbutzkedallacorte5242
    @andreluizbutzkedallacorte5242 5 років тому +34

    The Amazon river actually is called Solimões until it reaches the Negro around the Amazon Forest biggest city, Manaus. After that it is called Amazon.

    • @lin7823
      @lin7823 5 років тому +8

      That's only what the Brazilians call it

    • @lin7823
      @lin7823 5 років тому +2

      @no. But that was mentioned in the video, so your comment literally has no point, and the Brazilians didn't name it

    • @thekingcreeperissexy
      @thekingcreeperissexy 5 років тому +1

      i like how the river it reaches is called the "negro" river lol

    • @cynzix
      @cynzix 5 років тому +2

      Rio Negro e Solimões? I thought they were singers 😄

    • @pedrosalvador1146
      @pedrosalvador1146 5 років тому

      @@thekingcreeperissexy Because it is a black river, lel, negro in Portuguese means black

  • @2kkeno859
    @2kkeno859 4 роки тому +10

    Thank you for your good research bro but know this lake Victoria is a basin pod and corrects its waters from river mountains of East Africa, then the Nile river takes water out from the Lake basin called Victoria or lake (NALUBALE and river kiyiira I.e Nile ) in our native language of Uganda. Thanks

  •  3 роки тому +1

    Amazon. Here. Your answer.
    It annoys me that the history around the Nile is so long and important to the Old World that people seem unable to accept the fact that it is not the longest river on the planet.

  • @currentgiant7498
    @currentgiant7498 5 років тому +4

    Endlessly fascinating, was worth a second viewing. Thanks for sharing and creating content!

  • @Airbourne92
    @Airbourne92 5 років тому +882

    Who's with me on team Amazon?

    • @MrBeiragua
      @MrBeiragua 5 років тому +18

      Go Amazon! Go IBGE!

    • @The_Daily_Tomato
      @The_Daily_Tomato 5 років тому +8

      I'm right there with you ;)
      #TeamAmazon

    • @starmax1000
      @starmax1000 5 років тому +5

      Me! Kinda biased though, live somewhat near an Amazon tributary so....

    • @splashnskillz37
      @splashnskillz37 5 років тому

      Me

    • @appa609
      @appa609 5 років тому

      Just started work at a fulfilment center

  • @angrypossumsx1259
    @angrypossumsx1259 5 років тому +14

    Are the Mountains of the Moon still considered to be one of the sources of the Nile?

  • @RossomeOfficial
    @RossomeOfficial 3 роки тому +1

    I are back to re-watch some older videos and my golly have you evolved greatly over 3 years!

  • @patrickpomphrett8256
    @patrickpomphrett8256 3 роки тому +3

    You have provided a very interesting analysis and very educational. But it could be considered to be missing one key question. Do you measure from the coast or from the point in the river where the water is brackish, or is defined as saline. If you add that to the mix the amazon wins outright.

  • @zulumike3228
    @zulumike3228 5 років тому +6

    6:15 "and now, onto the Nile." (Shows footage of Lake Powell, AZ.)

  • @anthonyappleyard5688
    @anthonyappleyard5688 4 роки тому +14

    Originally the Amazon flowed west into the Pacific, until the Andes arose and reversed the drainage. Given that, the longest known river that ever was, was the Congo flowing into the Amazon, when Africa was joined onto South America, before continental drift opened the Atlantic Ocean in the Triassic or Jurassic.

  • @sifridbassoon
    @sifridbassoon 4 роки тому +5

    Great video! It had never occurred to me to add in the rivers that flow into Victoria.

  • @ricardomatheus3758
    @ricardomatheus3758 4 роки тому +12

    Answer: There is no consensus between Amazon or Nile. In my opinion, Amazon since they included lakes in the measurement of Nilo.

    • @jumajasjas2925
      @jumajasjas2925 4 роки тому +1

      Nile is far longer... this video is propaganda against Africa... Nile is originated from Lake Victoria ib east Africa one of the largest lakes in the world...

    • @alpacawithouthat987
      @alpacawithouthat987 4 роки тому +4

      Jumajas Jas Just because a river is connected to a large lake doesn’t mean the lake should be included in the measurement

    • @ramy131
      @ramy131 4 роки тому

      Thomas Gray Africa is exotic. South America is disgusting

  • @WyeExplorer
    @WyeExplorer 4 роки тому +5

    That was super. I've walked every river of the Wye my humble local river in the UK and Wales and my brother and I always used to debate the sources of some of these and say that, in fact, it's the overall area with its streams and rivulets that forms the source of a river at its head. Who can say? I think it's down to the explorer that gets right up there. Mark

  • @luqmaanabrahams1971
    @luqmaanabrahams1971 5 років тому +54

    Pretty sure Top Gear found the source of the Nile

    • @whynotbanana
      @whynotbanana 5 років тому

      was about to say that haha

    • @thuokbestinalt6413
      @thuokbestinalt6413 5 років тому

      Tanganyika of course

    • @Benjy52
      @Benjy52 4 роки тому +1

      Luqmaan Abrahams Exactly. How would Atlas not know this? Oh wait he’s Am-

  • @rilluma
    @rilluma 5 років тому +14

    This CHANNEL contains only QUALITY CONTENT. Expotential growth will be expected in time perioid of 2019-2020. KEEP UP THE VERY GOOD WORK, like you have done this far. ! GodSpeed !

  • @Sunlight91
    @Sunlight91 5 років тому +5

    The mouth of a river isn't clear either. Due to tides the direction of water flow can change for the last tens to hundreds kilometer. Where exactly is the boarder to the ocean?

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 5 років тому

      Not just that, but _Top Gear_ pointed out the mouth of the Nile River was the Strait of Gibraltar since the Mediterranean Sea is not tidal.

  • @Dwafiz
    @Dwafiz 3 роки тому +2

    Another variable: where exactly in a delta does a river "end"?

  • @DanParkerFilms
    @DanParkerFilms 4 роки тому +67

    Not even a single mention of James May and the Top Gear lads finding the source of the Nile, disappointing.

    • @rastaborko2333
      @rastaborko2333 3 роки тому +1

      Source of Nile is Ethiopia

    • @syafiqzr7326
      @syafiqzr7326 3 роки тому +2

      Ah I see you're a man of culture as well

    • @sebbo_h7121
      @sebbo_h7121 3 роки тому

      @@rastaborko2333 no

    • @TheBrass18
      @TheBrass18 3 роки тому +2

      I know, I was waiting for that reference!

    • @HotelPapa100
      @HotelPapa100 3 роки тому

      Well, the name of the Channel is "Atlas Pro", not "Pop Culture Pro"

  • @felixdubiswolf3371
    @felixdubiswolf3371 5 років тому +7

    It's not about size, it's about your impact on the ecosystem.

    • @benadryl9192
      @benadryl9192 5 років тому

      Well then it’s amazon. Or the people that chop the trees down

    • @henriquesoares2343
      @henriquesoares2343 5 років тому +2

      Actually its the Nile because it is the sole source of water in the middle of the desert, making it surroundings the only arable land in hundreds of miles while the Amazon is one of many big rivers in the region, to the point that one of its tributaries has the fifth biggest volume of water of all the rivers in the world

    • @benadryl9192
      @benadryl9192 5 років тому +1

      Henrique Soares yeah sure Nile was the heart of a 9k year old civilization but the Amazon has 1/5 of the most types of animals and is getting cut down so a lot of the animals are dying

    • @availabIe
      @availabIe 5 років тому

      @@benadryl9192 That doesn't mean anything. The Nile has been, is and probably will still be more important for humans than the Amazon.

    • @benadryl9192
      @benadryl9192 5 років тому

      unavailable agreed but I never brought up humans. I think that the Amazon has a bigger impact on animals than the Nile

  • @mohamedfarah7555
    @mohamedfarah7555 5 років тому +25

    TOP GEAR HAS FOUND THE SOURCE OF THE NILE

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 5 років тому

      Not sure if that is officially recognised.

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 5 років тому +5

      @@@shebbs1 Of course it isn't, because it was done by white men.

    • @arturmizuno
      @arturmizuno 5 років тому +1

      @@sunnyjim1355 salty, i like it

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 5 років тому +1

      @@sunnyjim1355 Wasn't David Livingstone a white man? He was the guy that spurred the Scramble for Africa.

    • @johnkean6852
      @johnkean6852 5 років тому

      ....humungus EGO though?

  • @jliller
    @jliller 4 роки тому +72

    Q: What is the longest river in the world?
    A: Semantics, the river that takes us all to hell.

  • @anitaaliwonyamusoke9542
    @anitaaliwonyamusoke9542 4 роки тому +2

    The Nile crosses through Lake Victoria and you can see its path from the surrounds of the lake, in Uganda. (A silver road in the waters) You have to carefully navigate across the river running through the lake, while using a boat because its turbulent. The waters of the Nile look different inside the lake.

    • @rastaborko2333
      @rastaborko2333 3 роки тому

      My friend the source of Nile is Ethiopia!!!!

  • @adisura9904
    @adisura9904 3 роки тому +1

    It is debated if Indus valley was formed along the side of the Indus river or the now dead Saraswati river. Just so you know. According to Rigveda Saraswati river was a mighty river which flowed from the ghagra channel into the arabian sea. Hydrographic surveys also seem to indicate that along with many harappan cities found near the now dry river bed. So i think we kinda need to start calling the harappans, the Saraswati valley/river civilization.

  • @WillToWinvlog
    @WillToWinvlog 4 роки тому +6

    You can't count the rivers flowing into the lake flowing into the Nile as part of the Nile. That's silly.

  • @nategz9875
    @nategz9875 5 років тому +35

    Amazon Is clearly bigger. Just look at all the tributaries and add them up. The Amazon is the largest river system.

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 5 років тому +24

      You clearly don't understand the defference between 'largest' and 'longest'... something which any hetro woman knows.

    • @Matheus-hj8ye
      @Matheus-hj8ye 5 років тому

      @@borhanuddintvif they don't know the source, than it's not the longest

    • @juzcosma5109
      @juzcosma5109 5 років тому

      Nathaniel Gomez I disagree with you

    • @kikolapersona
      @kikolapersona 4 роки тому

      @@sunnyjim1355 Its longer and larger....

  • @i.s6982
    @i.s6982 4 роки тому +5

    Love this channel!!! Sooo interesting!!!
    If you can please make a video about permafrost. It would be a great continuation of the previous videos

  • @fromthefareastNaga
    @fromthefareastNaga 4 роки тому +2

    The confusion of River Nile's mouth is more confusing than my life's confusion.

  • @LIOTBs
    @LIOTBs 4 роки тому +3

    Very well thought out, researched, and presented! Thanks!

  • @charlesk.
    @charlesk. 4 роки тому +31

    How dare you not include the workings of Captain James "Slow" May who discovered the true source of the nile.

    • @erikb8877
      @erikb8877 3 роки тому +2

      I'm pretty proud of that.😁

  • @deochandjaiprashad303
    @deochandjaiprashad303 3 роки тому +9

    Longest river: Amazon
    Largest river:Amazon
    Greatest river:Amazon

  • @ardabaser1349
    @ardabaser1349 3 роки тому +4

    Damn, there are a lot of numbers and names I didn't know. So informative!
    At the end of the video: Oh they are Brasilian. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

  • @baguettegott3409
    @baguettegott3409 3 роки тому

    The background music is so funny to me, I was dancing along the entire time.
    Interesting video nontheless

  • @aimeerose4086
    @aimeerose4086 4 роки тому +14

    They say no one knows the source of the Nile? Say that to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond!

  • @minemilx2702
    @minemilx2702 4 роки тому +18

    Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond knows.

  • @sethmorse3139
    @sethmorse3139 4 роки тому +12

    James may, Jeremy Livingston, and Richard Livingston discovered the source of the Nile

  • @fluffskunk
    @fluffskunk 9 місяців тому +1

    Anyone saying you need to follow the shoreline of a lake to calculate a river's length is dangerously insane.

  • @siphesihledlamini4413
    @siphesihledlamini4413 2 роки тому +1

    Very clear explanations bro big ups man 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

  • @ReisenderRaumplaner
    @ReisenderRaumplaner 4 роки тому +36

    the longest river is the Congo-Amazon River.... at least historically....

    • @synceware1453
      @synceware1453 4 роки тому +3

      Please elaborate?!

    • @ReisenderRaumplaner
      @ReisenderRaumplaner 4 роки тому +19

      @@synceware1453 when Africa and South America 300 Mill. years ago were one continent, a river that sourced where nowadays Congo sources flew from there throug the whole cotinent till the Pacific Ocean. At that time the Andes were only small hills. When the continents broke up and the Andes were built the river separated in today's Congo and Amazon. The Amazon had till about 50 Mill years ago a big waterfall into the Atlantic Ocean.

    • @synceware1453
      @synceware1453 4 роки тому +5

      @@ReisenderRaumplaner while im sceptic of the certainty with which you present theories about the geological features of land 300 million years ago as given facts, I thank you for your quick reply. That would have been one *thick* river indeed!

    • @ReisenderRaumplaner
      @ReisenderRaumplaner 4 роки тому +2

      @@synceware1453 there enough hints claiming the theory as a plausible fact. Of course, it was big and thick.

    • @SuperSMT
      @SuperSMT 4 роки тому +3

      It's not like the Andes shifted the slope of the entire continent of South America... it's doubtful the entire Amazon could possibly have changed direction....

  • @MpmSuhail
    @MpmSuhail 5 років тому +43

    my middle school textbook: Amazon in the largest river and the Nile is the longest river.

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable 5 років тому +4

      I don't know if that's true, but it's a good compromise.

    • @anisa.......6592
      @anisa.......6592 5 років тому +1

      which means you are the only one who stadied a fair school😂😂😂😂

    • @alexsasuke8927
      @alexsasuke8927 4 роки тому

      Yep even in ours

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire 3 роки тому +2

      In mine it was the Amazon, but then I'm British and that same textbook um... glossed over history, let's say. Colonism? What colonism? 🤐😨

    • @aayushguptaghosh5047
      @aayushguptaghosh5047 3 роки тому

      Amazon is far longer than nile !

  • @klankungen7794
    @klankungen7794 5 років тому +10

    A river can't go through a lake! The source of the water inside the river might come from the other side of the lake, but the river is a flow of water between two bodies of water, or from smaller streams to a body of water.
    But your deffinition of a river might be something else I guess?

    • @mirhasanoddname
      @mirhasanoddname 5 років тому +1

      Yeah this is exactly what I think!!!! A river can't go through a lake.

    • @carbrickscity
      @carbrickscity 5 років тому

      Exactly, otherwise a river go through the ocean.

    • @johnuferbach9166
      @johnuferbach9166 5 років тому

      @@carbrickscity rhine river also goes through a lake, who cares if the river got fat at some place and it got a seperate name?^^

    • @greekmythdude9053
      @greekmythdude9053 5 років тому

      Oof

    • @Banzybanz
      @Banzybanz 5 років тому +1

      Plenty of rivers get dammed and part of them turns into lake. The source of the river doesn't change into the dam, you still take into account the length before the dam.

  • @jackhackett80
    @jackhackett80 3 роки тому +1

    when you consider the "as the crow flies" mantra, distances become more interesting

  • @protorhinocerator142
    @protorhinocerator142 3 роки тому

    The Nile is the longest, and very significant throughout most of history.
    The Euphrates has been significant throughout all of recorded history.
    The Mississippi (especially with tributaries) is the most significant today.
    If you measure total length from the end of the Missouri River to the mouth of the Mississippi, the Missouri-Mississippi combo is the longest... no it's still the Nile.
    The Amazon has the most volume.
    The St. Lawrence is the widest at the mouth (without a delta).
    The Yangtze has the biggest dam and the most people along the shores.
    The Blue Danube has the best classical song named after it.
    Joan always asked people, "Can we talk?"

  • @tushyranx5860
    @tushyranx5860 3 роки тому +3

    What is amazing is that the Amazon can fill 83 Olympic-size swimming pools in a single second

  • @surajchathlingath5367
    @surajchathlingath5367 5 років тому +14

    Amazon maybe the longest, but Nile remains as the cradle of civilization😜

    • @bbm260
      @bbm260 5 років тому +2

      @Keyboard Warrior shut up you wanker

    • @e-wall199
      @e-wall199 5 років тому +4

      Actually, that would be the Tigris and Euphrates

    • @e-wall199
      @e-wall199 5 років тому

      But yeah, the Nile has better lore than the Amazon

    • @fungames1594
      @fungames1594 5 років тому

      @@e-wall199 actually that would be pison river from central Africa the bible says its the 1st river of eden. Science already proved the oldest homosapien bones are all found in africa. So your 100% wrong. African DNA is what we all come from. Except it.

    • @Franco_City
      @Franco_City 4 роки тому

      @ Fun & games , how dare you tell people they're 100% wrong when you are so delusional and severely uneducated. Idk where you get your facts about the bible but you're absolutely wrong and mixing things together to make some strange heretical narrative. Humans are from africa if you believe in evolution. Humans are from Mesopotamia if you believe in creation. Do you mix aliens and jesus together too? Genesis clearly states that the garden of eden is by the Tigris and Euphrates which is in Mesopotamia. The pishon and the gihon met the Tigris and Euphrates not too far from the persian gulf. Dont make up garbage and feed it to people.

  • @legalizze.420.gaming6
    @legalizze.420.gaming6 5 років тому +115

    Why does this video only have 357 views?? o.O how is this possible?! .I realy hope this is a bug on my side.

  • @vedantg.4794
    @vedantg.4794 3 роки тому +1

    giving that the amazon outputs more i say it would make sense its longer, and the nile has been reducing in flow recent years

  • @webisayoub237
    @webisayoub237 4 роки тому +1

    I'm Ugandan and the Nile starts from my country and I believe its the longest

  • @PsychoXXI
    @PsychoXXI 4 роки тому +3

    Brazil is the country with the largest natural resources on the planet. And the most preserved.

    • @inkari1981
      @inkari1981 4 роки тому

      el que mas destruye

    • @PsychoXXI
      @PsychoXXI 4 роки тому +1

      @@inkari1981 Brasil es el país más preservado del mundo.

  • @ronh2660
    @ronh2660 4 роки тому +4

    May, along with Clarkson & Hammond, found the source of the Nile

  • @inari.28
    @inari.28 5 років тому +11

    I’d say that whichever has the longest “pure river” (like the part of it commonly called the name) so without tributaries would be the longest.

    • @whophonenewds4805
      @whophonenewds4805 5 років тому +2

      I’d guess the Yangtze and then the Mississippi.

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 5 років тому +1

      Again, often problematic. Hostorical variations, local custom, bias, all sorts of issues will affect the outcome.

  • @idriscarney5299
    @idriscarney5299 4 роки тому +1

    I reckon if you get to a point where two rivers (of different names) meet that is where the river you’re measuring starts. If you’re finding the source, it should be the source that contributes the largest average percentage of water per year.

  • @davidmantz2190
    @davidmantz2190 3 роки тому

    If anyone is wondering, when a river bends and breaks as shown in the video, it's called an Oxbow lake.

  • @MHCE444
    @MHCE444 3 роки тому +7

    "The rugged terrain of Nyungwe Forest has made it difficult to explore now and also thousands of years ago " Pure laziness from Humans, meanwhile burning large sections of Amazon every day to use that land for farming smh