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The rivers are grouped by sea or ocean. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. Some rivers (e.g. Sûre/Sauer) do not flow through France themselves, but they are mentioned for having French tributaries. They are given in italics. For clarity, only ...
The list includes two major rivers, the Rhine and the Rhône, that have their source in Switzerland, while others flow out of France into Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium (the Sarre, Moselle, Sambre, Escaut and Lys). Cross-border canals change their name at the border. The canals are listed in order of the Sort name column. Locations given in red ...
Pages in category "Rivers of France" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 772 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Rivers of Île-de-France (8 C, 26 P) M. Rivers of Martinique (21 P) N. Rivers of Normandy (5 C, 56 P) Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (12 C, 121 P) O.
The Seine (/ s eɪ n, s ɛ n / sayn, sen, [1] French: ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [2] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [3]
In French, the adjective derived from the river is rhodanien, as in le sillon rhodanien (literally "the furrow of the Rhône"), which is the name of the long, straight Saône and Rhône river valleys, a deep cleft running due south to the Mediterranean and separating the Alps from the Massif Central.
The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (). [3] It crosses the river Gardon near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France.
The name "Loire" comes from Latin Liger, [8] which is itself a transcription of the native Gaulish name of the river.The Gaulish name comes from the Gaulish word liga, which means "silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium", a word that gave French lie, as in sur lie, which in turn gave English lees.