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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
Yenisei River: The Russian government is planning to build hydro dams on the river within the next few years. 5 Salween River: 2,815 km (1,749 mi) 324,000 km 2 (125,000 sq mi) 6,700 m 3 /s (240,000 cu ft/s) Andaman Sea: Longest undammed Southeast Asian river. Burma is planning to build the Tasang Dam and several others. 6 Paraguay River
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 ...
The Nile in Africa is officially recognized as the world’s longest river, but now a new expedition is heading to South America with the aim of exploring a tributary of the Amazon which may lead ...
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.
List of rivers of Romania: L–O. 1 language. Română ... River: Tributary of: Lădăuți: Buzău Lanca Birda: Timiș Lăpugiu: Valea Mare Lăpuș ...
The river is known to be first mentioned by Herodotus in 485 BC bearing the name Maris (Μάρις). [5] Strabo calls it Marisos (Μάρισος). [ 6 ] It was known in Latin as the Marisus ; the Mureș is also mentioned, as Morisis (Μορήσης), in a document of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII , in 948 AD.