50 of the Most Famous Rivers in the World
Rivers usually flow towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.
Some run peacefully through the landscape, others run wildly. We need them for our fresh water supply, food and transportation. Many settlements started along a river.
Rivers inspired many poets and painters in the past, and now photographers capture their beauty.
In this post we present 50 of the most famous and beautiful rivers in the world. Let’s get started!
The Amazon in Brazil
Memuru in Norway
Wheaton River in Canada
The Seine in Paris
The River Niger in Mali
The Loire in France
Ganges in India
The River Thames in London
Congo River
The Yarra River in Melbourne Australia
Yellow River in China
Zambezi in Africa
Cahabòn River in Guatemala
Mosman River in Australia
The Danube in Europe
Rio Grande in the USA
Rio Orinoco in Venezuela
Brisbane River in Australia
Colorado River in the USA
Views along the River Nile
On The Amazon
Volga in Russia
Rhone in France
The Rhine in Germany
Zambezi in Zambia
The River Nile in Egypt
The Mississippi River in the USA
Colorado River in the USA
Yangtze River in China
Dawn at the Amazon
The Mekong River in Vietnam
The Danube in Germany
Daintree River in Australia
Ural in Russia
Po in Italy
Red River in Vietnam
Fitz Roy River in Argentina
River in Wakayama-ken in Japan
Steenbras River Mouth in South Africa
The Amazon River
River in Iceland
The Mekong River in Thailand
Kartong River in Gambia
Argentina in Italy
Puncak in Indonesia
Ottawa River in Canada
Arkansas River in the USA
La Meuse in France
Waimakariri river in New Zealand
Ebro in Spain
Author: Hilleke
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the picture under Rio Grande is of the Colorado River
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hey this is nice, now everyone can see the beauty of these rivers.
( 1 year and 354 days ago )
thanks for using my photograph
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most beautiful and amazing rivers around the world
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This site is awesome……..really mesmerized with the beauty of the nature…hope some day ill be able to visit all the above mentioned places…..
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Amazing Photos! Thanks so much…
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gr8…. I really Love that photographs… Thank you very much for these lovely pictures. i love the River of Brazil and Congo,Po, amazon,Mississippi,Nile… Those are awesome… i would love to go over there and see the nature.Amazing Photos! Thanks so much…This site is to be better than another .i could have memorized with the beauty of the nature…hope some day ill be able to visit all the above mentioned place..:-). Thanks for Hilleke (Belgium photographer)
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these were the best rivers i have ever seen in my
( 1 year and 128 days ago )
life omg im only 9 and i have never seen this much ever
tyhis is actually the first time i have ever saw rivers like this but
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amazing pictures … refreshing i wolud rather say. thanks for helping me see nature’s beauty which i actually wouldn’t see….
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Thanks for these striking pictures of nature’s beauty from all over the world. I’ve seen (and swam) in a few of these, and hope to add to my list in the future. In the interim, you and your collection of photographers have assembled a stunning array of vivid shots. Wonderful!
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Very beautiful. Very calming and peaceful. Like many others, I would love to see these rivers in person one day.
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really good
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goo rivers very good screw you josh you ronan park wannabe
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BOOM!
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very helpful but alot of rivers when they could be in a certain order
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very beautiful place,i like it
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natural beauty is a ornaments of nature and should be saved it for our life.
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wonderful picture. Really attracting and it will be very helpful for tourism for those countries across which these rivers are flowing.
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the rio grande is awesome my cousins live close to the rio grande
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Beautiful pictures from beautiful rivers indeed. But you forgot the most beautiful in my opinion; the Rio Cristal in Colombia.
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i really like the canada rivers and the australian ones please put more canadian rivers t am doing a project on canadian rivers and it is due today
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hi i would realy like to see these rivers in person one day because they look really buetiful in the pictures but my favourate would have to be the mosman river in Queensland Australia
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very extrordinary rivers i must say
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I love those pictures hilleke they are beautiful
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Wow some very cool pics of rivers…..
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these pics were hilarious. i just love’em!!!!!
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I’m shocked as no rivers here from the only riverine country Bangladesh. Famous The Padma, The Meghna, The Jamuna and many more great rivers are there. So, Admin is requested to incorporate atleast 2/3 rivers from riverine Bangladesh.
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beautiful, i cant stop looking at them
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What about the mighty himalayan rivers in Nepal Bhutan and India?
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Wow am so amazed with the pictures great
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“WOW these photos were absalutely amazing.
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I nearly cried at the beauty especially the one in Vietnam seen as Forrest Gump was filmed there.
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didn’t like the way there were doubles used it for homework actually 45 pictures excluding the doubles
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WOw…. Love that photographs… Thank you very much for these lovely pictures. i love the River of Brazil and Congo… These are awesome… i would love to go over there and see the nature.
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