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These are the main rivers of the Netherlands.. All of the Netherlands is drained into the North Sea, partly via the IJsselmeer lake. In the list below, rivers that flow into the sea are sorted following the North Sea coast (including IJsselmeer) from the Belgian border near Knokke to the German border near Emden.
The Amstel (Dutch: ⓘ) is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. [1] It flows from the Aarkanaal and Drecht in Nieuwveen northwards, passing Uithoorn, Amstelveen, and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, to the IJ in Amsterdam, to which the river gives its name.
The Scheldt (/ ʃ ɛ l t, s k ɛ l t / SHELT, SKELT; French: Escaut; Dutch: Schelde ⓘ) is a 435-kilometre-long (270 mi) [4] river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.
The Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta is a river delta in the Netherlands formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) and the Scheldt rivers. In some cases, the Scheldt delta is considered a separate delta to the Rhine–Meuse delta.
Map of river discharge in the Netherlands; the majority flows through the Grote rivieren The Rhine-Meuse delta and the rivers that flow into it form the Grote rivieren. The Grote rivieren, literally translated Great (or Large) rivers, is a landform in the Netherlands.
The river then forms part of the Belgian-Dutch border, except that at Maastricht the border lies further to the west. In the Netherlands it continues northwards through Venlo closely along the border to Germany, then turns towards the west, where it runs parallel to the Waal and forms part of the extensive Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta ...
The Waal (Dutch name, pronounced) is the main distributary branch of the river Rhine flowing approximately 80 km (50 mi) through the Netherlands. It is the major waterway connecting the port of Rotterdam to Germany. Before it reaches Rotterdam, it joins with the Afgedamde Maas near Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede.
The IJssel (Dutch: ⓘ; Dutch Low Saxon: Iessel(t)) is a Dutch distributary of the river Rhine that flows northward and ultimately discharges into the IJsselmeer (before the 1932 completion of the Afsluitdijk known as the Zuiderzee), a North Sea natural harbour.