List of tributaries of the Danube

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Map of most important tributaries of the Danube

This is a list of tributaries of the Danube by order of entrance.

The Danube is Europe's second-longest river. It originates in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers—the Brigach and the Breg—which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing generally eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through several Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania.

The Danube flows through—or forms a part of the borders of—ten countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine; in addition, the drainage basin includes parts of ten more countries: Poland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, and Albania.

River	Entering the Danube at	Side of the entrance	Length
Iller	Ulm, Germany	right	147 km
Wörnitz	Donauwörth, Germany
Lech	near Donauwörth, Germany	right	264 km
Paar	near Vohburg, Germany	right	134 km
Abens	near Neustadt (Donau), Germany
Altmühl	Kelheim, Germany	left	230 km
Naab	Regensburg, Germany	left	165 km
Regen	Regensburg, Germany	left	165 km
Große Laaber	near Straubing, Germany
Isar	near Deggendorf, Germany	right	286 km
Vils	Vilshofen, Germany	right
Inn	Passau, Germany	right	517 km
Traun	near Linz, Austria	right	153 km
Enns	Mauthausen, Austria	right	254 km
Ybbs	Ybbs an der Donau, Austria	right	130 km
Morava	Devín, Slovakia	left	358 km
Leitha	near Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary	right	180 km
Rába	Győr, Hungary	right	322 km
Váh	Komárno, Slovakia	left	403 km
Hron	near Štúrovo, Slovakia	left	298 km
Ipel	near Szob, Hungary	left	232 km
Sió	near Szekszárd, Hungary	right	121 km (360 km)^[1]
Drava	near Osijek, Croatia	right	725 km
Vuka	Vukovar, Croatia	right	114 km
Tisza	near Titel, Serbia	left	1,026 km
Sava	Belgrade, Serbia	right	990 km^[2]
Tamiš	near Pančevo, Serbia	left	359 km
Velika Morava	near Smederevo, Serbia	right	185 km (493 km, 550 km)^[3]
Mlava	near Kostolac, Serbia	right	158 km
Caraş	near Stara Palanka, Serbia	left	110 km
Nera	near Stara Palanka, Serbian-Romanian border	left	124 km
Pek	Veliko Gradište, Serbia	right	129 km
Timok	Bulgarian-Serbian border	right	203 km
Lom	Lom, Bulgaria	right
Jiu	between the Bulgarian towns of Kozloduy and Oryahovo	left	331 km
Ogosta	between the Jiu's mouth and Oryahovo, Bulgaria	right	147 km
Iskar	Gigen, Pleven Province, Bulgaria	right	368 km
Vit	Somovit, Bulgaria	right	189 km
Olt	Turnu Măgurele, Romania	left	709 km
Osam	Nikopol, Bulgaria	right	314 km
Yantra	Svishtov, Bulgaria	right	285 km
Vedea	Bujoru, Romania	left	224 km
Rusenski Lom	Ruse, Bulgaria	right	45 km (196.9 km)^[4]
Argeş	Olteniţa, Romania	left	327 km
Ialomiţa	Piua Petrii, Romania	left	400 km
Siret	Galaţi, Romania	left	726 km
Prut	near Reni, Ukraine	left	953 km

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[edit] Notes

^ The Sió is 121 km long. As it flows out from the Balaton lake, measured from the source of the lake's longest tributary, the Zala river, it is 360 km long.
^ The Sava is 945 km long, but as it originates from two shorter rivers, Sava Dolinka and Sava Bohinjka, with the longer headwater of Sava Dolinka it measures 990 km.
^ The Velika Morava is created by the confluence of the Južna Morava and the Zapadna Morava. The Velika Morava proper is 185 km long, but also counting its longer branch, Zapadna Morava, it is 493 km long. The most distant water source in the Morava watershed is the source of the river Ibar, the longest tributary of the Zapadna Morava, which gives the Ibar-Zapadna Morava-Velika Morava river system a length of 550 km.
^ The Rusenski Lom is formed by the confluence of the Beli Lom and the Cherni Lom. The Rusenski Lom proper is about 45 km long, but counting its longer branch, the Beli Lom, it is 196.9 km long.

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