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Skjern Å, the largest river in Denmark by water volume. Denmark has approximately 900 streams with outlet to the sea. Almost half are less than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long. 52 of them are over 25 kilometres (16 mi) long and 17 are over 50 kilometres (31 mi) long.
Skjern River (Danish: Skjern Å) is the largest river in Denmark, in terms of volume. The river has its spring in Tinnet Krat in central Jutland, very close to Denmark's longest river, the Gudenå. It drains about one tenth of Denmark and flows into the Ringkøbing Fjord - a lagoon and former bay of the North Sea.
Denmark's largest river measured by water volume, the Skjern River, also emerges in Tinnet Krat, close to the source of Gudenå. The Gudenå or Gudenåen ( pronounced [ˈkuˀðn̩ˌɔˀn̩] ), is Denmark 's longest river and runs through the central parts of the Jutlandic peninsula.
Rank Country Waterways Date of information — World 2,293,412: 2017 1 Russia 317,505: 2017 2 Brazil 153,348: 2017 3 China 138,357: 2017 [3] European Union 53,384: 2017 4 United States
This list of lakes of Denmark includes the largest lakes in Denmark. Largest lakes of Denmark. This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (July 2010)
This is a list of rivers of Greenland. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Most rivers in Greenland are formed from melting of glaciers. [1] [2]
Between Sorø and Næstved it runs through Lake Tystrup-Bavelse, the 8th largest lake in Denmark and the site of its first natural park. [ 1 ] The Suså was created by glacial ice and meltwater during the Last Ice Age , c. 15,000 years ago.
The Tangevaerket Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Gudenå River just east of the village of Tange in Viborg Municipality, Denmark.The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production and it supports a 3.3 MW power station which is the largest in the nation.