Can you name the countries these rivers flow through, in order?

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Answers are in order from most distant source to mouth. Countries bordering lakes fed by the river are included. If a river returns a second time to a country, it is not listed twice.
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Mekong

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Danube

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Courses of Rivers Quiz

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Contributed: February 9th, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 273

Tags: Country Quizzes, course, river, through, blank, flow, order

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	rje_dobbin:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 12:32 GMT	3 points
	If you want the countries in order I think you ought to say so. The Danube doesn't flow through Moldova either. The Nile as given is the White Nile whereas the Blue Nile also flows through Ethiopia and (possibly) Eritrea

	thedpr:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 13:25 GMT	5 points
	In the directions it does say that countries must be in order. I also specify that the answers are traced from the most distant source, so that that means the White Nile, not the Blue. Finally, between Galati Romania, and Reni Ukraine, there is a short stretch of Danube that borders Moldova.

	thedpr:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 13:27 GMT	1 point
	I have changed the title to reflect that the countries are in order.

	thedpr:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 13:38 GMT	2 points
	Wow, Moldova has a scant 480 meters on the Danube. Hadn't quite realized it was that short! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giurgiule%C5%9Fti

	kennyb:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 20:18 GMT	2 points
	I think you are wrong on the Nile, although I have only relied on Wikipedia for a source: "The most distant stream—and thus the ultimate source of the Nile—emerges from Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda, via the Rukarara, Mwogo, Nyabarongo and Kagera rivers, before flowing into Lake Victoria in Tanzania near the town of Bukoba."

	thedpr:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 00:13 GMT	0 points
	Fair enough. My National Geographic atlas notes two "Sources of the Nile", and I picked the one that seemed longer, but now that I look more closely the Rwanda stream turns a lot more...

	demonstah:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 02:13 GMT	-2 points
	More importantly, Bulgaria doesn't border Moldova - so how can the Danube flow from one to the other with nothing in between?

	jefrunner:	May 21st, 2010 at 16:34 GMT	4 points
	@demonstah: I had that same problem at first with getting the Nile from Kenya to the DRC, but then I looked at the instructions again and saw this part "If a river returns a second time to a country, it is not listed twice." Take out the second appearance of Uganda (or in your case Romania) and problem solved! Fun quiz, it really makes you think about geography and why the borders are where.