The longest river in Asia is – (1) River Indus (2) River Yangtze (3) River Hwang Ho (4) River Ganga

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(2) River Yangtze Explanation: The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. It flows for 6,300 kilometers from the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai.

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