User:Wavelength/Miscellaneous information/Rivers and their territorial namesakes

Canada

• The Yukon River flows generally northwestward in southwest Yukon, and exits into Alaska.
• The Saskatchewan River flows generally southwestward and then westward in western Saskatchewan, and exits into Alberta.

United States

• The Colorado River flows generally westward in western Colorado, and exits into Utah.
• The Minnesota River flows generally eastward in southern Minnesota, and exits into the Mississippi River at the border with Wisconsin.
• The Iowa River flows generally southeastward in southern Iowa, an exits into the Mississippi River at the border with Illinois.
• The Missouri River flows generally eastward in Missouri, and exits into the Mississippi River at the border with Illinois.
• The Arkansas River flows generally southsoutheast in Arkansas, and exits into the Mississippi River at the border with Mississippi.
• The Wisconsin River flows generally westward in southern Wisconsin, and exits into the Mississippi River at the border with Iowa.
• The Illinois River flows generally southward in western-central Illinois, and exits into the Mississippi River at the border with Missouri.
• The Kentucky River flows generally northward in eastern Kentucky, and exits into the Ohio River at the border with Indiana.
• The Tennessee River flows generally northward in western Tennessee, and exits into Kentucky.
• The Mississippi River flows generally southward along the western border of Mississippi with Arkansas and Louisiana, and exits into Louisiana.
• The Ohio River flows generally southwestward and then westward along the southern border of Ohio with West Virginia and then Kentucky.
• The Maine River (Maine) flows generally southward in southeastern Maine, and exits into the Atlantic Ocean.
• The Connecticut River flows generally southward in central Connecticut, and exits into Long Island Sound.
• The Delaware River flows generally southward along the eastern border of Delaware with New Jersey, and exits into the Atlantic Ocean.
• The Alabama River flows generally southsouthwestward in southern Alabama, and, with the Tombigbee River, flows into the Mobile River and the Tensaw River, which exit into Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

• (The Florida River flows in Colorado.)
• (The Michigan River flows in Colorado.)

Mexico

• The Sonora River flows in Sonora, and exits into the Gulf of California.

Brazil

• The Acre River flows in Acre, and exits into
• The Piauí River flows in Piauí, and exits into

Argentina

• The Río Negro (Argentina) flows in Río Negro Province, and exits
• The Chubut River flows in Chubut Province, and exits

France

• The River Somme flows generally westnorthwestward in Somme, and exits into the English Channel.
• The Aisne (river) flows generally westward in Aisne, and exits into Oise.
• The Oise (river) flows generally southwestward in Oise, and exits into Val-d'Oise.
• The Meuse (river) flows generally northward in Meuse, and exits into Ardennes (department).
• The Moselle (river) flows generally northwestward in Moselle, and exits into Meuse.
• The Doubs (river) flows generally westward and southwestward in Doubs, and exits into Jura (department).
• The Ain (river) flows generally southsouthwestward in Ain, and exits into the Rhone at the border with [[Isère].
• The Isère (river) flows generally southwestward in Isère, and exits into Drôme.
• The Drôme (river) flows generally westward in Drôme, and exits into the Rhone at the border with Ardèche.
• The Gard River flows generally eastsoutheastward in Gard, and exits into the Rhone at the border with Bouches-du-Rhône.
• The Hérault (river) flows generally southsouthwestward in Hérault, and exits into the Gulf of Lion.
• The Tarn (river) flows generally westward in Tarn, and exits into Haute-Garonne.
• The Lot (river) flows generally westward in Lot (department), and exits into Lot-et-Garonne.
• The Dordogne (river) flows generally westward through and alongside Dordogne, and exits into Gironde.
• The Charente (river) flows generally southward and then westward in Charente, and exits into Charente-Maritime.
• The Vienne (river) flows generally northward in Vienne, and exits into Indre-et-Loire.
• The Indre (river) flows generally northwestward in Indre, and exits into Indre-et-Loire.
• The Allier (river) flows generally southward in Allier, and exits into Puy-de-Dôme.
• The Cher (river) flows generally northwestward in Cher (department), and exits into Loir-et-Cher.
• The Yonne (river) flows generally northwestward in Yonne, and exits into Seine-et-Marne.
• The Aube (river) flows generally northwestward in Aube, and exits into Marne.
• The Sarthe (river) flows generally southwestward through and alongside Sarthe, and exits into Maine-et-Loire.
• The Mayenne (river) flows generally southward in Mayenne, and exits into Maine-et-Loire.
• The Orne (river) flows generaly westnorthwestward in Orne, and exits into Calvados.
• The Eure (river) flows generally northnorthwestward in Eure, and exits into the Seine at the border with Seine-Maritime.
• The Rhone flows generally southward in Rhône (department), and exits into the Loire at the border with Isère.
• The Marne (river) flows generally northwestward in Marne, and exits into Aisne.

Switzerland

• The Ticino (river) flows in Ticino.

Senegal

• The Senegal River flows generally westnorthwestward and then south-westward along the northern border of Senegal with Mauritania, and exits into the Atlantic Ocean.

Niger

• The River Niger flows in Niger.

Congo

• The Congo River flows generally southwestward between the eastern border of the Republic of the Congo and the western border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and exits into the Atlantic Ocean.

See also

• List of river borders of U.S. states