List of longest undammed rivers
This is a list of the longest undammed rivers of the world, ordered by length.
| River | Length | Drainage area | Average discharge | Mouth | Notes | Reference | Rank | |
| Amazon River | Atlantic Ocean | Second-longest and largest river in the world, undammed as well as unbridged, does not form a delta while joining the sea due to adequate thrust of river water to overcome the sea water wave and tidal thrusts. | 1 | |||||
| Lena River | Arctic Ocean | Longest undammed river in Asia. | 2 | |||||
| Amur-Shilka-Onon | Strait of Tartary | 3 | ||||||
| Mackenzie-Slave-Athabasca | Arctic Ocean | The Peace-Finlay system would extend even longer from the head of the Slave but there are dams on the Peace. | 4 | |||||
| Nizhnyaya Tunguska River | Yenisei River | The Russian government is planning to build hydro dams on the river within the next few years. | 5 | |||||
| Salween River | Andaman Sea | Longest undammed Southeast Asian river. Burma is planning to build the Tasang Dam and several others. | 6 | |||||
| Paraguay River | Paraná River | 7 | ||||||
| Amu Darya-Panj | Aral Sea | Although undammed, heavy diversion through canals causes the river to frequently dry up without reaching its mouth. Tajikistan is planning to build a hydroelectric dam on the Panj River. | 8 | |||||
| Aldan River | Lena River | |||||||
| Rio Negro | Amazon River | |||||||
| Vitim River | Lena River | |||||||
| Indigirka River | Arctic Ocean | |||||||
| Fraser River | Pacific Ocean | |||||||
| Kuskokwim River | Bering Sea | |||||||
| Back River | Arctic Ocean | |||||||
| Anadyr River | Gulf of Anadyr | |||||||
| Liard River | Mackenzie River | |||||||
| Yellowstone River | Missouri River | Longest undammed river in the contiguous United States. | ||||||
| Maya River | Aldan River | |||||||
| Fly River | Gulf of Papua | Largest completely undammed river system in the world | - | |||||
| White River | Missouri River | - | - | |||||
| Tanana River | Yukon River | |||||||
| Thelon River | Hudson Bay | |||||||
| Salmon River | Snake River | |||||||
| Stikine River | Pacific Ocean | |||||||
| Skeena River | Pacific Ocean | |||||||
| Susitna River | Pacific Ocean | Alaska is planning to build a hydroelectric dam on the river at Devil's Canyon. |