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1 Longest rivers. 2 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... The length and drainage area represent only the part of the river within Romania. [1] River name
The Olt (Romanian and Hungarian; German: Alt; Latin: Aluta or Alutus, Turkish: Oltu, Ancient Greek: Ἄλυτος Alytos) is a river in Romania. [1] [2] It is 615 km (382 mi) long, and its basin area is 24,050 km 2 (9,290 sq mi). [2] [3] It is the longest river flowing exclusively through Romania
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
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 ...
Europe: North America: Oceania: South America: ... Longest undammed river in the contiguous United States. Maya River: 1,053 km (654 mi) 171,000 km 2 (66,000 sq mi)
It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric. For context, the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool is 2,500 m 3 (88,000 cu ft). The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second.
The Argeș (Romanian pronunciation: ⓘ) is a river in Southern Romania, a left tributary of the Danube. [1] [2] It is 350 km (220 mi) long, and its basin area is 12,550 km 2 (4,850 sq mi). [2] [3] Its source is in the Făgăraș Mountains, in the Southern Carpathians and it flows into the Danube at Oltenița.
Map of most important tributaries of the Danube. This is a list of tributaries of the Danube by order of entrance.. The Danube is Europe's second-longest river.It starts in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers—the Brigach and the Breg—which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing generally eastwards for a distance of some 2,850 km ...