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Nelson River

The 571st longest river in the world

644 km

The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river drains Lake Winnipeg and runs 644 kilometres (400 mi) before it ends in Hudson Bay near Port Nelson. Its full length (including the Saskatchewan River and Bow River) is 2,575 kilometres (1, 600 mi), it has mean discharge of 2,370 cubic metres per second (84, 000 cu ft/s), and has a drainage basin of 1,072,300 square kilometres (414, 000 sq mi), of which 180,000 square kilometres (69, 000 sq mi) is in the United States.

Flows through: Canada.

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

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