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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It depends on how you define a river. This map displays Rio de la Plata as a river, but that's debateable, officially it's an estuary. If you separate Parana and Uruguay rivers, than the Ob river basin in Asia is bigger than any of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drainage_basins_by_area