# World Rivers and Lake Centerlines

Named river lines and lake centerlines for global geographic reference.

## Contents

| File | Records | Format |
|---|---:|---|
| rivers.geojson | 1,455 | GeoJSON FeatureCollection |

The download contains the populated data, a field dictionary, source metadata, reuse terms, a change log and file digests. It contains no scripts, libraries, executables or conversion tools.

## Coverage

Every feature and geometry in the Natural Earth 1:10 million rivers and lake-centerlines layer. This is generalized cartography, not complete stream coverage, current flow data or a routing network. Coordinates are WGS84 longitude, latitude. Source dissolve identifiers repeat or are missing, so exact-content hashes identify this snapshot without dropping segments.

## Sources and dates

- [Natural Earth](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson): ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19. Retrieved 2026-09-08T02:04:20.498721+00:00.

## Read the data

JSON tables are arrays of records. GeoJSON files are FeatureCollections, with data fields under each feature’s properties. `data-dictionary.json` defines the fields, units, nulls and observed types. `metadata.json` supplies primary keys and source hashes. Preserve identifiers as text and distinguish missing values from zero.

GeoJSON coordinates are WGS84 in longitude, latitude order. Feature IDs are also present in properties.id.

## Example record

This is an actual record from the data. For map layers, the example shows properties; the downloaded GeoJSON also contains the complete geometry.

```json
{
  "id": "9426d69c1c9ce11549b59d2bcda6e801aa7db78d7fb70e37e8faf72aa1c105f6",
  "source_dissolve": "0River",
  "name": "Irrawaddy Delta",
  "alternative_name": null,
  "english_name": "Irrawaddy Delta",
  "feature_type": "River",
  "river_number": 0,
  "note": null
}
```

## Reuse terms

Public domain. Made with Natural Earth. Authors and contributors: Natural Earth, Tom Patterson, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and contributors.

[Publisher terms](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/). License notices are included where supplied.

## Tracking changes

Compare content hashes for exact matches; use source dissolve values, names and geometries to investigate changes. Changed content gets a new hash, which alone does not mean a new river.

This publication is a snapshot. No automatic refresh is scheduled. New imports must preserve their source version, retrieval date and hashes, then publish a new Arcomm revision.

## Download

[Download the file](/files/2400d2bed2bc2089424f4406150e520995678ce4047675dd2449e75fe531b74a)

SHA-256: `2400d2bed2bc2089424f4406150e520995678ce4047675dd2449e75fe531b74a`

Size: 2262146 bytes.

## Revisions

[Revision history](/agent/docs/world-rivers/history)