City to River #2 - Difficult

Are you obsessed with geography? Then try to name the major river which runs through or past each of these cities.
The full name of some cities includes the river name. In that case, we abbreviated the city name
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First submittedNovember 19, 2013
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City
River
El Paso
Rio Grande
Volgograd
Volga
Omaha
Missouri
Fallujah
Euphrates
Astoria, Oregon
Columbia
Nantes
Loire
Guangzhou
Pearl
Turin
Po
Limerick
Shannon
Newcastle, England
Tyne
Kaifeng
Yellow
Hyderabad, Pakistan
Indus
Whitehorse
Yukon
Nottingham
Trent
Warsaw
Vistula
St. Petersburg
Neva
Rostov
Don
Lyon
Rhône / Saône
Yuma, Arizona
Colorado / Gila
Florence
Arno
Novosibirsk
Ob
Timbuktu
Niger
Rosario, Argentina
Paraná
Mandalay
Irrawaddy
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35 Comments
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Level 23
Mar 15, 2014
Lives up to its difficulty level. There are also some rivers in Australia and the Nordic countries that flow by major cities, which would be fun to see.
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Level 55
Mar 15, 2014
Please accept Wisla for Vistula. Wisla is its Polish name and the river is known as Wisla in the rest of Eastern Europe as well.
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Level 26
Dec 27, 2015
ditto ^
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Level 27
Mar 15, 2014
Difficult quiz.

I only know Yuma because I live in the state.

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Level 57
Mar 16, 2014
I guessed it because it said 'Arizona'. Not many large rivers in that part of the US.
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Level 49
Oct 7, 2021
Yeah being in arizona, its preatty obvious
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Level 19
Mar 16, 2014
The zhujiang river is in Guangzhou too, accept it plz
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Level 89
Feb 17, 2019
Zhujiang is Chinese for "Pearl River."
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Level 80
Apr 24, 2014
There's two rivers in Lyon which meet in the city
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Level 85
Feb 27, 2015
Rhone & Loire. I could only remember the latter...
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Level 79
Jul 25, 2025
Rhône and Saône. The Loire is further west.
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Level 58
May 20, 2020
True, but the Rhone is longer and more famous.
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Level 23
Jun 1, 2014
Put Rhoine and Roine and it was Rhone... DAMN!
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Level 85
Feb 27, 2015
The Loire flows through Lyon. Please could you add as a correct answer.
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Level 58
May 20, 2020
No, it doesn't.
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Level 53
Aug 18, 2015
No. In Lyon there are the Rhone and the Saone. The Loire isn't there.
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Level 71
Mar 31, 2017
I wouldn't say Xi'an lies on the Yellow River. It's a good 120km off, judging from Google Maps. I'd say that the Wei River should be the correct answer, or at least an accepted type-in.
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Level 79
May 11, 2020
Still not fixed!
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Level 80
Jan 20, 2024
Yeah, Xi'an is clearly not on the Yellow River. A good fix without an excessive increase in difficulty would probably be to replace Xi'an with Lanzhou, which is still a fairly significant Chinese city that is right on the banks of the Yellow River.
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Level 66
Apr 18, 2024
Zhengzhou maybe a more known city for Yellow river.
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Level ∞
Oct 30, 2025
Finally fixed!
+2
Level 70
Feb 8, 2020
Suggestion: Oslo, Akerselva.
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Level 46
Mar 26, 2026
What is Akerselva?
+3
Level 64
Aug 25, 2020
Can you accept Huang Ho rather than Yellow?
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Level 73
Jun 23, 2024
The Chinese Pinyin for Yellow River is actually Huáng Hé.
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Level 96
Dec 17, 2020
Ugh. Should have gotten Rostov-on-Don.
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Level 85
Jul 26, 2025
Whenever either Tigris or Euphrates is an answer to a quiz, I always seem to type the wrong one first. Every single time.
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Level 93
Oct 30, 2025
Yangon is at the confluence of the Yangon River and the Bago River, and nowhere near the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River. How have (currently) 42% of people guessed that correctly and no one commented about it? Am I missing something?
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Level ∞
Oct 30, 2025
Changed to Mandalay.
+2
Level 86
Oct 31, 2025
Rio Bravo isn't accepted
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Level 85
Oct 31, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyed this quiz. I did one with rivers running through capital cities
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Level 63
Feb 13, 2026
100% first attempt.
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Level 72
Mar 25, 2026
"Volgograd" is an example of the full name of a city which includes the answer. Please abbreviate to "Grad"!
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Level 57
Mar 25, 2026
When I first read the quiz title I thought it said "Cry to River" and it was gonna be some reference to Justin Timberlake.
+1
Level 36
Mar 26, 2026
I knew four rivers more but correct answers were too specific. Wisla-Vistula, Hoang Ho,-Yellow, Ind-Indus