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Bian River

The 4th longest river in the world

5,806 km

The Bian River or Mbian River is a river in Merauke Regency, South Papua, Indonesia. Its total length is 580.6 km and its width is around 70 – 1447.1 m. Some 900 people in its upper course are said to speak the Bian Marind language.

Flows through: Indonesia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

Other major rivers

  1. Amazon6,992 km
  2. Nile6,650 km
  3. Yangtze River6,300 km
  4. Yellow River5,464 km
  5. Paraná River4,880 km
  6. River Congo4,700 km
  7. Mekong River4,350 km
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