Great Rivers of the World “E...- F...-G...-H...-I...-J...-”
for social studies and science educators and home schoolers.

The Elbe rises in the Czech Republic, crosses Germany and empties into the North Sea.

Notable cities on the Elbe include Dresden, Wittenberg, and Hamburg.

Ganges River, the most sacred river to Hindus, is one of the populated places on Earth - about one in every 12 people on Earth (8.5% of world population) live in the catchment area of the Ganges.

Cities along the Ganges include Haridwar, Kanpur, Jajmau, Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Patna, Munger, Bhagalpur, and Kolkata.

• India posters

The Guadalquivir River is the only great navigable river in Spain.

During Roman times the Guadalquivir was navigable to Córdoba, currently it is navigable to Seville.

A river in Bolivia was named for the Guadalquivir.

The 315 mile long Hudson River begins in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State and flows south through the eastern part of the state before its mouth forms the border between New Jersey and New York and empties into Upper New York Bay. The lower portion of the Hudson is a tidal estuary; the Erie Canal was built from Albany to Buffalo on Lake Erie and opened the eastern seaboard with the Great Lakes.

Now named after explorer Henry Hudson, the Iroquois called the river Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan; it was also know as the Mauritius, “River of Mountains”, and North River.

The Palisades are a line of steep cliffs ranging in height between 350-550 ft., on the west side (NJ) of the lower Hudson River, near NYC.

The Indus River, the longest river and the third largest river, in terms of annual flow, in the Asian subcontinent, has been the site of human habitation since the Paleolitic era.

The Indus River rises in Tibet and flows through Pakistan's “breadbasket” into the Arabian Sea.

The ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro are among the thousands of settlements in the Indus River watershed.

• Ancient India poster

The Jordan, a 156 miles long river in West Asia, flows south from Lake Hula (at the border of Lebanon, Syria and Israel) into the Sea of Galilee and on to the Dead Sea.

In Christian religious tradition, Jesus was baptised in the Jordan by John the Baptist.

Currently, the river serves as the eastern border of the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan takes its name from the river.

• Middle East posters