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Physical map of Western and Central Europe highlighting the drainage basins and networks of the Rhine, Rhone, and Seine rivers. The map shows river courses, major tributaries, canals, elevation changes with color shading, international boundaries, and key cities such as Paris, Lyon, Basel, and Rotterdam. A locator inset in the upper left corner places the main map within Europe.
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Rhine River View of the Rhine River with the green hills of Siebengebirge, including Drachenfels and Petersberg, in the background and houses in the foreground in Bonn, Germany.
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Physical map of Western and Central Europe highlighting the drainage basins and networks of the Rhine, Rhone, and Seine rivers. The map shows river courses, major tributaries, canals, elevation changes with color shading, international boundaries, and key cities such as Paris, Lyon, Basel, and Rotterdam. A locator inset in the upper left corner places the main map within Europe.
Rhine, Rhône, and Seine river basins and their drainage network

Rhine River

river, Europe
Also known as: Lower Rhine River, Renos River, Rhein River, Rhenus River, Rhin River, Rijn River(Show More)
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Alice F.A. Mutton
Former Reader in Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London. Author of Western Europe in Colour: An Advanced Regional Geography.
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Rhine 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 miles (1,320 km), but in 2010 a shorter...

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