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50 major Rivers of Europe (excluding Arctic, White Sea, or Caspian)

This is a subset of List of rivers of Europe#Rivers of Europe.

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Europe's 50 largest rivers ( over > 33,000 km² watershed)
º
Rank (of fleuves) River or river system Length
(km)
Basin
(km²)
Flow
(m³/s)
Countries
[note 1]
Notes Refs
Length Area Flow
38 37 15 Glomma 619 42441 709 Skagerrak in Fredrikstad Norway [1][2]
29 34 24 Göta älvVänernKlarälven system 756 50229 554 Kattegat in Gothenburg Sweden Norway [3][2]
48 42 29 Ångerman 463 31864 481 Bothnian Sea near Kramfors Sweden [4][2]
40 38 34 TorneTorneträskAbiskojokk ← Válfojohka 565 40157 430 Bothnian Bay in Tornio Sweden Finland Norway [note 2] [4][1]
42 33 25 Kemijoki 552 51127 553 Bothnian Bay in Kemi Finland [1][2]
41 39 54 KymiLake Päijänne ←←← Koivujärvi sources 554 37159 282 Gulf of Finland in Kotka Finland [note 3]
15 7 5 NevaLake LadogaVolkhov-system 1010 281000 2490 Gulf of Finland in Saint Petersburg Russia [note 4] [5][2]
* * * - VuoksiSaimaaPielisjoki-system 806 68501 584 Lake Ladoga at Solovyovo and at Priozersk Russia Finland [note 5] [6][1]
* * * - SvirLake OnegaVodla-system 678 88200 790 Lake Ladoga near Lodeynoye Pole Russia [note 6] [7]
* * * - VolkhovLake IlmenMsta-system 844 80200 580 Lake Ladoga near Volkhov Russia [note 7] [8]
35 29 37 NarvaLake PeipusVelikaya 647 56229 400 Gulf of Finland near Narva Estonia Russia [1]
14 18 19 Daugava 1020 85613 640 Gulf of Riga near Riga Latvia Belarus Russia [2]
22 17 20 Neman 914 92523 634 Baltic Sea near Šilutė Lithuania Russia Belarus [1]
12 9 10 VistulaNarewBug 1211 192632 1080 Baltic Sea near Gdańsk Poland Belarus Ukraine [note 8] [9][1][2]
* * * - NarewBug 810 74714 328 Vistula in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki Poland Belarus Ukraine [note 9]
13 13 22 OderWarta 1045 118791 574 Baltic Sea in Świnoujście Germany Poland [note 10] [10][1]
* * * - Warta 808 55538 195 Oder in Kostrzyn nad Odrą Poland [10]
10 12 14 ElbeVltava ← Teplá Vltava 1329 148268 860 Wadden Sea near Cuxhaven Germany Czech Republic [note 11] [11][1]
30 35 44 WeserWerra 751 46259 365 Wadden Sea near Bremerhaven Germany [note 12] [12][13]
11 11 6 Rhine 1233 185263 2315 North Sea at Hoek van Holland Netherlands Germany France
Austria Liechtenstein Switzerland
[note 13]
20 40 46 Meuse 950 34364 357 North Sea near Hellevoetsluis Netherlands Belgium France [note 14] [14][1]
26 21 23 SeineMarne 875 75374 560 English Channel in Le Havre France [note 15] [15]
17 14 13 Loire 1006 117356 889 Bay of Biscay in Saint-Nazaire France [16][17]
39 30 17 GaronneTarn 610 55846 650 Gironde estuary near Bordeaux France [note 16] [18]
25 16 17 Douro 897 97290 650 Atlantic Ocean in Porto Portugal Spain [1][2]
16 24 26 Tagus 1007 70756 500 Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon Portugal Spain [note 17] [19][1][2]
21 25 + GuadianaCigüelaZáncara 922 67027 79 Gulf of Cadiz near Ayamonte Portugal Spain [note 18] [20][1]
31 27 83 Guadalquivir ← Guadiana Menor ← Guardal 722 57053 164 Gulf of Cadiz in Sanlúcar de Barrameda Spain [note 19] [21]
23 19 21 Ebro 910 84763 577 Balearic Sea near Tortosa Spain [2]
19 15 7 RhôneSaôneDoubs 957 98131 1900 Gulf of Lion in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône France Switzerland [note 20] [22][2]
32 22 9 PoTanaro 702 73746 1460 Adriatic Sea near Porto Tolle Italy [note 21] [2]
44 31 40 Maritsa 515 53475 383 Thracian Sea near Alexandroupoli Greece Turkey Bulgaria [1]
2 2 2 Danube 2857 801463 6450 Black Sea near Sulina Romania Ukraine Moldova
Bulgaria Serbia Croatia
Hungary Slovakia Austria
Germany
[note 22] [1][2]
* * * - Great MoravaWest MoravaIbar 550 37709 232 Danube near Smederevo Serbia [note 23] [1]
* * * - SavaSava Dolinka 945 94613 1609 Danube in Belgrade Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia
Slovenia
[note 24] [1][23][24]
* * * - Drava ← Isel ← Schwarzach 728 40154 577 Danube near Osijek Croatia Hungary Slovenia
Austria
[note 25] [25]
* * * - TiszaSomeș 1111 154073 863 Danube near Titel Serbia Hungary Romania [note 26] [1]
* * * - Siret 559 45857 240 Danube in Galați Romania Ukraine [note 27] [1]
9 23 50 Dniester 1362 73158 313 Black Sea near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Moldova Ukraine [26][1]
27 26 85 Southern Bug 806 63569 160 Dnieper-Bug Estuary near Mykolaiv Ukraine [note 28] [27]
4 3 8 Dnieper 2201 509824 1700 Dnieper-Bug Estuary near Kherson Ukraine Belarus Russia [1][2]
* * * - PripyatHoryn 1052 119911 460 Dnieper near Chernobyl Ukraine Belarus [note 29] [1]
* * * - Sozh 648 42199 207 Dnieper in Loyew Belarus Ukraine Russia [28]
* * * - Desna 1130 88490 360 Dnieper in Kyiv Ukraine Russia [29]
5 4 11 DonVoronezh ← Polnoy Voronezh 1923 437308 890 Sea of Azov near Azov Russia [note 30] [30][2]
* * * - Donets 1053 98720 159 Don near Semikarakorsk Ukraine Russia [31][1]
* * * - Khopyor ← Serdoba 1011 61052 150 Don near Bukanovskaya Russia [note 31] [32]
* * * - Medveditsa ← Malaya Medveditsa 748 34914 69 Don near Serafimovitch Russia [33]
* * * - ManychKalaus ← Bolshoy Yankul 863 49977 16 Don near Rostov-on-Don Russia [note 32] [34]
24 32 34 Kuban 906 52399 430 Sea of Azov near Temryuk Russia [note 33] [35][2]

See also

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