Monde Profil Transports

top ten longest rivers: Nile (Africa) 6.693 km; Amazon (South America) 6.436 km; Mississippi-Missouri (North America) 6.238 km; Yenisey-Angara (Asia) 5.981 km; Ob-Irtysh (Asia) 5.569 km; Yangtze (Asia) 5.525 km; Yellow (Asia) 4.671 km; Amur (Asia) 4.352 km; Lena (Asia) 4.345 km; Congo (Africa) 4.344 km

note: rivers are not necessarily navigable along the entire length; if measured by volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world, responsible for about 20% of the Earth's freshwater entering the ocean

top ten largest natural lakes (by surface area): Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan) 372.960 sq km; Lake Superior (Canada, United States) 82.414 sq km; Lake Victoria (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) 69.490 sq km; Lake Huron (Canada, United States) 59.596 sq km; Lake Michigan (United States) 57.441 sq km; Lake Tanganyika (Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia) 32.890 sq km; Great Bear Lake (Canada) 31.800 sq km; Lake Baikal (Russia) 31.494 sq km; Lake Nyasa (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania) 30.044 sq km; Great Slave Lake (Canada) 28.400 sq km

note 1: the areas of the lakes are subject to seasonal variation; only the Caspian Sea is saline, the rest are fresh water

note 2: Lakes Huron and Michigan are technically a single lake because the flow of water between the Straits of Mackinac that connects the two lakes keeps their water levels at near-equilibrium; combined, Lake Huron-Michigan is the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world

top twenty container ports as measured by Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) throughput: Shanghai (China) - 40,233,000; Singapore (Singapore) - 33,666,000; Shenzhen (China) - 25,208,000; Ningbo (China) - 24,607,000; Hong Kong (China) - 20,770,000; Busan (South Korea) - 20,493,000; Guangzhou (China) - 18,858,000; Qingdao (China) - 18,262,000; Dubai (UAE) - 15,368,000; - Tianjin (China) - 15,040,000; Rotterdam (Netherlands) - 13,734,000; Port Kelang (Malaysia) - 11,978,000; Antwerp (Belgium) - 10,450,000; Xiamen (China) - 10,380,000; Kaohsiung (Taiwan) - 10,271,000; Dalian (China) - 9,707,000; Los Angeles (US) - 9,343,000; Hamburg (Germany) - 8,860,000; Tanjung Pelepas (Malaysia) - 8,260,000; Laem Chabang (Thailand) - 7,227,000 (2017)
note - it was estimated that in 2017 60% of global sea-borne trade by value moved by container

top ten by passengers: Atlanta (ATL) - 103.902,992; Beijing (PEK) - 95.786,442; Dubai (DXB) - 88.242,099; Tokyo (HND) - 85.408,975; Los Angeles (LAX) - 84.557,968; Chicago (ORD) - 79.828,183; London (LHR) - 78.014,598; Hong Kong (HKG) 72.664,075; Shanghai (PVG) 70.001,237; Paris (CDG) - 69.471,442 (2017)

top ten by cargo (metric tons): Hong Kong (HKG) - 5.049,898; Memphis, TN (MEM) - 4.336,752; Shanghai (PVG) - 3.824,280; Incheon (ICN) - 2.921,691; Anchorage, AK (ANC) - 2.713,230; Dubai (DXB) - 2.654,494; Louisville, KY (SDF) - 2.602,695; Tokyo (NRT) - 2.336,427; Taipei (TPE) - 2.269,585; Paris (CDG) - 2.195,229 (2017)