Danube

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Danube

The Danube is a river in Central Europe, the continent's seicont langest efter the Volga.

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Danube
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The Danube in Vienna
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Coorse o the Danube, merkit in reid
Basin
Main sourceBreg
Martinskapelle, Black Forest, Germany
1,078 m (3,537 ft)
48°05′44″N 08°09′18″E
2nt sourceBrigach
St. Georgen, Black Forest, Germany
940 m (3,080 ft)
48°06′24″N 08°16′51″E
River moothDanube Delta
Romanie
45°13′3″N 29°45′41″E
Basin size801,463 km2 (309,447 sq mi)
Pheesical chairacteristics
Lenth2,850 km (1,770 mi)[1]
Dischairge
  • Location:
    afore delta
  • Average rate:
    7,000 m3/s (250,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge
(location 2)
  • Location:
    Passau
    30km afore toun
  • Average rate:
    580 m3/s (20,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge
(location 3)
  • Average rate:
    1,900 m3/s (67,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge
(location 4)
  • Average rate:
    2,350 m3/s (83,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge
(location 5)
  • Average rate:
    4,000 m3/s (140,000 cu ft/s)
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Classified as an internaitional watterway, it oreeginates in the toun o Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest o Germany at the confluence o the rivers Brigach an Breg. The Danube then flaws sootheast for 2,872 km (1,785 mi), passin through fower Central European caipitals afore emptyin intae the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romanie an Ukraine.

Ance a lang-staundin frontier o the Roman Empire, the river passes through or touches the borders o ten kintras: Romanie (29.0% o basin aurie), Hungary (11.6%), Serbie (10.2%), Austrick (10.0%), Germany (7.0%), Bulgarie (5.9%), Slovakie (5.9%), Croatie (4.4%), Ukraine (3.8%), an Moldovae (1.6%).[2] Its drainage basin extends intae nine mair.

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