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The Oder (/ ˈ oʊ d ər / OH-dər, German: ⓘ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: Odra; [a] Upper Sorbian: Wódra) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary the Warta . [ 1 ]
The river Warta (/ ˈ v ɑːr t ə / VAR-tə, Polish: ⓘ; German: Warthe ⓘ; Latin: Varta) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly through the Polish Plain in a north-westerly direction to flow into the Oder at Kostrzyn nad Odrą on Poland's border with Germany.
River name Emptying into Total length Length in Poland Total basin area Basin area in Poland km mi km mi km 2 sq mi km 2 sq mi; Vistula: Baltic Sea: 1,022 635 1,022 635 193,690 74,780 168,868 65,200 Oder: Baltic Sea: 840 520 726 451 119,074 45,975 106,043 40,943 Warta: Oder: 795 494 795 494 54,520 21,050 54,520 21,050 Bug: Narew: 774 481 590 ...
The Oder–Neisse line (German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze, Polish: granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej) is an unofficial term for the modern border between Germany and Poland. The line generally follows the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, meeting the Baltic Sea in the north.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister said Friday that “huge amounts of chemical waste” were probably dumped intentionally into the Oder River, which runs along the border with ...
The river was a motivations to found Gubin as a craftmanship and trading port in the 13th Century. [7] Since the 1945 Potsdam Agreement in the aftermath of World War II, the river has partially demarcated the German-Polish border (along the Oder–Neisse line). The German population east of the river was expelled from Poland to Germany.
what is an atmospheric river? Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the ...
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