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The Volga, the longest river in Europe, unites a huge region of European Russia; eleven of the twenty largest cities in Russia lie on its banks. The Loire and the Po unite important regions within France and Italy respectively. The most important rivers in Europe include Rhone, Elbe, Oder, Tagus, Thames, Don and Dnieper, among others.
It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between 8,000 m 3 /s (280,000 cu ft/s) and 8,500 m 3 /s (300,000 cu ft/s) – and of drainage basin. It is widely regarded as the national river of Russia. The hypothetical old Russian state, the Rus' Khaganate, arose along the Volga c. 830 AD. [8]
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
The 15 rivers of Europe by average discharge, including only rivers directly flowing into the World Ocean or Endorheic basins: Volga - 8,087 m³/s (largest river in Eastern Europe) Danube - 6,450 m³/s (largest river in Central Europe) Pechora - 4,380m³/s; Northern Dvina - 3,330m³/s; Neva - 2,490 m³/s; Rhine - 2,315 m³/s) (largest river in ...
The following are the longest rivers in the EU alongside their approximate lengths: [3] [4] Danube - 2,860 km (1,780 miles) (partially - 2628 km in the EU) Rhine – 1,236 km (768 miles) (partially – nearly 1100 km in the EU, nearly 150 km entirely in Switzerland or on its border with Liechtenstein)
Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper (flowing through Russia, then Belarus and Ukraine and into the Black Sea) and the Western Dvina (flowing ...
The Danube (/ ˈ d æ n. j uː b / DAN-yoob; see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest south into the Black Sea. A large and historically important river, it was once a frontier of the Roman Empire. In the 21st century, it ...
The Vistula (/ ˈ v ɪ s tj ʊ l ə /; Polish: Wisła ⓘ; German: Weichsel ⓘ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres (651 miles) in length. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its drainage basin , extending into three other countries apart from Poland, covers 193,960 km 2 (74,890 sq mi), of which 168,868 km 2 (65,200 sq ...