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Bookmark or Share- Rhine River | Location, Length, Map, & Facts | BritannicaRhine River, river and waterway of western Europe, culturally and historically one of the great rivers of the continent and among the most important arteries of industrial transport in the world.It flows from two small headways in the Alps of east-central Switzerland north and west to the North Sea, into which it drains through the Netherlands.The length of the Rhine was long given as 820 ...
- Rhine - WikipediaThe Rhine [note 2] (/ r aɪ n / RYNE) [3] is one of the major European rivers.The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps.It forms the Swiss-Liechtenstein border and partly the Swiss-Austrian and Swiss-German borders. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border, after which it flows in a mostly northerly direction through the German ...
- Rhine River summary | BritannicaRhine River, German Rhein, River, western Europe. Rising in the Swiss Alps, it flows north and west through western Germany to drain through the delta region of the Netherlands into the North Sea. It is 820 mi (1,320 km) long, though in 2010 a length of 765 mi (1,230 km) was proposed; it is navigable for 540 mi (870 km).
- The Rhine River - World in mapsThe Rhine Falls (Rheinfall in German) is the name of the waterfalls located near Schaffhouse. These waterfalls have a total height of 23 m (75ft) and 150 m (490 ft) in width and give an impressive sight. But the waterfalls are more famous for the huge amount of volume of water passing through them, with a volume that varies between 250 m³/s (8 ...
- Rhine River - Encyclopedia of World GeographyRhine River. WITH A TOTAL LENGTH of 820 mi (1,320 km) flowing through SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, and the NETHERLANDS, the Rhine is the longest river in Germany and probably the most important waterway of western Europe. The Vorderhein, Hinterrhein, and Alpenrhein are the sources of the river within Switzerland.
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