🌊 Floodplains of the World

These are notable floodplains — the flat ground beside a river that the water covers in flood and recharges with rich silt, the reason the first farming societies rose on them, from the Nile’s black kemet and the Ganges’s wide delta plain to the Okavango’s inland delta and the great flood-pans of the Amazon. Each profile shows where the plain lies, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia.

23 floodplains from 10 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any floodplain for its full profile.

Africa (2) Americas (5) Europe (7) Oceania (9)

Africa (2 floodplains)

Americas (5 floodplains)

Europe (7 floodplains)

Oceania (9 floodplains)

Coordinates are approximate locations. Descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached on our server. Data sourced from Wikidata. Related: Mountains · Lakes · Islands · World Heritage.