River
Rhine
The most important navigable river in Europe and the site of the 1986 Sandoz chemical spill, the disaster that triggered modern European transboundary water cooperation.
Key facts
- Length
- approximately 1,230 km
- Basin area
- approximately 185,000 km²
- Riparian countries
- 9
Relationships
- Located in: Germany
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted