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The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) is an organization that consists of 14 member states (Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Montenegro, and Ukraine) and the European Union. The commission, established in ...
About 326 km are within the interior of Austria; 95 km flow in and around Slovenia (67 km along the borders with Austria and Croatia, 28 km inside Slovenia), [3] and the rest forms the border between Croatia and Hungary. The largest city on the river is Graz, Austria. Its drainage basin covers an area of 14,109 km 2 (5,448 sq mi). [4]
Notes: a The distance between the extreme points of each state's coastline, b Not including islands in coastal lagoons [21] 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi The Adriatic Sea contains more than 1,300 islands and islets , most along the Adriatic's eastern coast—especially in Croatia, with 1,246 counted. [ 22 ]
Rivers that flow into the sea are sorted geographically, along the coast. Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea (the lower in the list, the more upstream). Some rivers (the Meuse, for example) do not flow through Germany themselves, but they are mentioned for having German ...
Zrmanja upstream from Obrovac. Zrmanja (pronounced, Italian: Zermagna) is a river in southern Lika and northern Dalmatia, Croatia.It is 69 km (43 mi) long and its basin covers an area of 907 km 2 (350 sq mi).
The two countries presently control one bank of the present-day river each, but Croatia claims that the border line should follow the cadastral borders between the former municipalities of SR Croatia and SR Serbia along the Danube, as defined by a Yugoslav commission in 1947 (effectively following a former river bed); borders claimed by Croatia ...
The Drava is one of the most exploited rivers in the world in terms of hydropower, with almost 100% of its water potential energy being exploited. [18] [19] As the region of the river is a place of exceptional biodiversity, this raises several ecological concerns, together with other forms of exploitation such as use of river deposits. [20] [21]
River Length within Croatia (km) Total length (km) Drains into 1. Sava: 562 945 Danube: 2. Drava: 505 749 Danube: 3. Kupa: 296 296 Sava: 4. Danube: 188 2860