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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.
The 15 rivers of Europe by average discharge, including only rivers directly flowing into the World Ocean or Endorheic basins: Volga - 8,087 m³/s (largest river in Eastern Europe) Danube - 6,450 m³/s (largest river in Central Europe) Pechora - 4,380m³/s; Northern Dvina - 3,330m³/s; Neva - 2,490 m³/s; Rhine - 2,315 m³/s) (largest river in ...
Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [ 17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...
2022 European drought. Drought alerts in Europe on 21 July 2022. During the summer of 2022, parts of Europe experienced drought conditions exacerbated by heat waves. [1] This was preceded by a warm and dry spring. On 9 August, a senior European Commission researcher said that it seemed to be Europe's worst year in 500 years. [2]
Map of the Danube and the major cities it passes through. This is a list of the cities and towns located on Danube river. This list does not include parts of cities, suburbs, neighbourhoods, etc. Any city or town which is located on the bank of Danube river can be included in this list. The cities and towns on Danube river could be sorted by ...
The Seine ( / seɪn, sɛn / sayn, sen, [ 1] French: [sɛn] ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [ 2] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [ 3] It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres ...
The Ural ( Russian: Урал, pronounced [ʊˈraɫ] ), known before 1775 as the Yaik, [note 1] is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea. At 2,428 kilometres (1,509 mi), it is the third-longest river in ...
The Oder ( / ˈoʊdər / OH-dər, German: [ˈoːdɐ] ⓘ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: Odra; [a] Upper Sorbian: Wódra [ˈwʊtʁa]) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary Warta. [1]