River
- Argentina - Río de la Plata (River Plate)
- Brazil - Amazon
- People's Republic of China - Yangtze, Yellow River
- Colombia - Magdalena
- Republic of Congo - Congo
- Democratic Republic of Congo - Congo
- Czech Republic - Vltava (Bohemia), Morava (river) (Moravia)
- Egypt - Nile
- The Gambia - Gambia
- India - the Ganges (Ganga)
- Iran - the karun
- Ireland - the Shannon
- Myanmar - the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy)
- Macedonia - Vardar
- Nigeria - River Niger; Benue River
- Pakistan – Indus (Sindh) (unofficial)
- Poland - Vistula
- Russia - Volga
- Serbia - Great Morava, Drina
- Thailand - Chao Phraya (unofficial)
- United Kingdom - Thames River (though not official)
- United States - Mississippi
- Uzbekistan - Amu Darya and Syr Darya
- Venezuela - Orinoco
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“Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr.”
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