The longest straight road in the world

Using QGIS and Google My Map to visualize the location of the world’s longest straight roads, mostly located in Saudi Arabia, USA, Canada, Australia and Latin America.

 

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Soccer world cup winners

 

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The 50 highest cities in the world

(source Visual Capitalist)

 

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There is still a lot of mystery surrounding the length of the Nile, and generally speaking about the way a river is measured. Consequently many rivers have an approximative length. In 2009, The International Journal of Digital Earth declared that the Nile was the longest river, and not the Amazon. Here are the top 20 longest river of the world:

  1. Nile (6,650km - Egypt) 11) Lena (4,400km - Russia)

  2. Amazon (6,400km - Brazil) 12) Mekong (4,350km - Vietnam)

  3. Yangtze (6,300km - China) 13) Mackenzie (4,241km - USA)

  4. Mississipi (6,275km - USA) 14) Niger (4,200km - Niger)

  5. Yenisei (5,539km - Russia) 15) Brahmaputra (3,969km - India)

  6. Yellow River (5,464km - China) 16) Murray-Darling (3,672km - Australia)

  7. Ob (5,410km - Russia) 17) Tocantins-Araguaia (3,650km - Brazil)

  8. Parana (4,880km - Argentina) 18) Volga (3,645km - Russia)

  9. Congo (4,700km - DR Congo) 19) Indus (3,610km - India)

  10. Amur (4,444km - Russia) 20) Euphrates (3,596km - Iraq)