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Capital and largest city in Hungary. 3 Belgrade: 1,197,714 (2022) [3] 279 BC Serbia: Capital and largest city in Serbia. 4 Bratislava: 475,503 (2021) [4] 907 AD Slovakia: Capital and largest city in Slovakia. 5 Novi Sad: 306,702 (2022) [5] 1748 Serbia: Capital and largest city of the autonomous province of Vojvodina and second largest city in ...
Bratislava, [a] (German: Pressburg, Hungarian: Pozsony [b]) is the capital and largest city of the Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all cities on the River Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is more ...
Belgrade [b] is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. [10] The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. [4]
The unfinished Danube-Bucharest Canal, which is 73 km (45 mi) long and around 70% completed, could link Bucharest to the Danube River, and via the Danube-Black Sea Canal, to the Black Sea. Works on the canal were suspended in 1989, but proposals have been made to resume construction as part of the European Strategy for the Danube Region. [105]
Donauwörth (German: [ˌdoːnaʊˈvøːɐ̯t] ⓘ; Swabian: Donawerd) is a town and the capital of the Donau-Ries district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is said to have been founded by two fishermen where the rivers Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz meet. The city is part of the scenic route called "Romantische Straße" (Romantic Road).
The Danube in Budapest Fisherman in the Danube Delta Freight ship on the Danube near Vienna. The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Brăila in Romania (the maritime river sector), and further on by river ships to Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany; smaller craft can navigate further upstream to Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. About 60 ...
As a right tributary of the Danube, the river belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin. [19] [20] The Sava River is the third longest tributary of the Danube, [21] slightly shorter than the 966-kilometre (600 mi) Tisza and the 950-kilometre (590 mi) Prut—the Danube's two longest tributaries—when the Sava Dolinka headwater is excluded from ...
The Danube crosses the city from the west to the south-east. The Middle Danube basin begins at Devín Gate in western Bratislava. Other rivers nearby are the Morava River, which forms the north-western border of the city and flows into the Danube at Devín, the Little Danube, and the Vydrica, which flows into the Danube at the borough of ...