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34,548 km 2 (13,339 sq mi) Discharge. • average. 350 m 3 /s (12,000 cu ft/s) [1] The Meuse[a] or Maas[b] is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a total length of 925 km (575 miles).
Progression. Meuse → North Sea. The Semois ( French pronunciation: [səmwa]; Simwès in Walloon, often under elided form Smwès; Semoy, Sesbach in German, Setzbaach in Luxembourgish of Arlon; and known as the Semoy in France) is a river flowing from the Ardennes uplands of Belgium and France towards the Meuse, of which it is a right tributary ...
Designated. 2 February 2020. Reference no. 2405 [ 3 ] The Scheldt (/ ˈʃɛlt, ˈskɛlt / SHELT, SKELT; French: Escaut [ɛsko]; Dutch: Schelde [ˈɕxɛldə] ⓘ) 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.
[citation needed] - The river was the setting for the Canadian television drama series Seaway. - River has also been portrayed in paintings, notably by the Group of Seven. - It is the namesake of Saint-Laurent Herald at the Canadian Heraldic Authority. - In 1980, Jacques Cousteau filmed Cries from the Deep and St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea ...
Yser. The Yser (US: / iːˈzɛər / ee-ZAIR, [1] French: [izɛʁ]; Dutch: IJzer [ˈɛizər] ⓘ) is a river that rises in French Flanders (the north of France), enters the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows through the Ganzepoot and into the North Sea at the town of Nieuwpoort. The source of the Yser is in Buysscheure (Buisscheure), in ...
13,000 m 3 /s (460,000 cu ft/s) [2] The Rhine[note 2] (/ raɪn / RYNE) [3] is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms the Swiss-Liechtenstein border and partly the Swiss-Austrian and Swiss-German borders. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German ...
Oise (river) The Oise (/ wɑːz / WAHZ; French: [waz] ⓘ) is a river of Belgium and France, flowing for 341 km (212 mi) [1] from its source in the Belgian province of Hainaut, south of Chimay. It crosses the border with France after about 20 km (12 mi). It flows into the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a north-western suburb of Paris.
The Dommel is a small river in Belgium and the Netherlands, left tributary of the Dieze.It is 120 km long, of which 85 km are in the Netherlands. The Dommel takes in water from the Keersop, Tongelreep, Run, Gender and Kleine Dommel streams and merges at 's-Hertogenbosch with the Aa stream to form the river Dieze, which subsequently flows towards the Meuse.