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There are currently 20 countries and 22 territories that do not have a permanent natural
river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of ...
flowing within them, though some of them have
stream A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams ...
s or seasonal watercourses such as
wadi Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water ...
s. The
Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plat ...
is the largest
subregion A subregion is a part of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location. Cardinal directions, such as south are commonly used to define a subregion. United Nations subregions The Statistics Division of the United Nations (UN) ...
in the world without any permanent natural river. Countries in this subregion have wadis instead. The Chinese special administrative region of
Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
has no permanent natural rivers other than a small man-made
canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface f ...
named Canal Dos Patos (鴨涌河). Due to environment issues, this small canal is currently being backfilled with land by the local government. Eventually, this small canal will cease to exist.臭水鴨涌河掃進歷史垃圾箱 – 青茂口岸 帶動景觀交通大變革


Sovereign states


Africa

* * (See List of wadis of Djibouti) * (See List of wadis of Libya)


Asia

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List of wadis of Kuwait Kuwait is part of the Tigris–Euphrates river system basin. Several Tigris–Euphrates confluences form parts of the Kuwait–Iraq border. Bubiyan Island is part of the Shatt al-Arab delta. Kuwait is partially part of the Mesopotamian Marshes. Ku ...
) * * (See List of wadis of Oman) * (See List of wadis of Qatar) * (See
List of wadis of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia does not have any permanent rivers, but does have numerous wadis (valleys) which are riverbeds that are either permanently or intermittently dry. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under ea ...
) * (See
List of wadis of the United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates does not have any permanent rivers, but does have wadis, a permanently or intermittently dry riverbed. This is a list of wadis in United Arab Emirates arranged by drainage basin. Persian Gulf *Dubai Creek is sometimes cal ...
) * (See List of wadis of Yemen)


Europe

* (See List of valleys of Malta) * *


Oceania

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Dependencies and other territories


Asia

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Europe

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North America

* * * * * * * * * Saint Martin * * *


Oceania

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See also

* Lists of rivers


References


External links

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GEOnet Names Server The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data or geonames in domain and email addresses, is a service that provides access to the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ...
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