Danube
The Danube is a river in Central Europe, the continent's seicont langest efter the Volga.
Danube | |
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The Danube in Vienna | |
Coorse o the Danube, merkit in reid | |
Basin | |
Main source | Breg Martinskapelle, Black Forest, Germany 1,078 m (3,537 ft) 48°05′44″N 08°09′18″E / 48.09556°N 8.15500°E |
2nt source | Brigach St. Georgen, Black Forest, Germany 940 m (3,080 ft) 48°06′24″N 08°16′51″E / 48.10667°N 8.28083°E |
River mooth | Danube Delta Romanie 45°13′3″N 29°45′41″E / 45.21750°N 29.76139°ECoordinates: 45°13′3″N 29°45′41″E / 45.21750°N 29.76139°E |
Basin size | 801,463 km2 (309,447 sq mi) |
Pheesical chairacteristics | |
Lenth | 2,850 km (1,770 mi)[1] |
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Classified as an internaitional watterway, it oreeginates in the toun o Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest o Germany at the confluence o the rivers Brigach an Breg. The Danube then flaws sootheast for 2,872 km (1,785 mi), passin through fower Central European caipitals afore emptyin intae the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romanie an Ukraine.
Ance a lang-staundin frontier o the Roman Empire, the river passes through or touches the borders o ten kintras: Romanie (29.0% o basin aurie), Hungary (11.6%), Serbie (10.2%), Austrick (10.0%), Germany (7.0%), Bulgarie (5.9%), Slovakie (5.9%), Croatie (4.4%), Ukraine (3.8%), an Moldovae (1.6%).[2] Its drainage basin extends intae nine mair.
References
eedit- ↑ "Danube River". Britannica.com.
- ↑ "Countries of the Danube River Basin". International Commission for the protection of the Danube River. Retrieved 13 November 2010.