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THE DANUBE WATER AREA
 The river Danube heads in the mountains of Schwarzwald (
Baden-Wurtemberg
,
Germany
), where mountain brooks Brege (
48 km
long) and Brigs (
43 km
long) join together near the town Donaueshingen at the height
678 m
above sea level. The
Danube
changes several times on its way the direction. At first it flows through the mountain area of
Germany
to the south-east, and then on the mark
2747 km
it changes the direction to the north-east. This direction is kept till the city
Regensburg
(
2379 km
) where the most northern point of the watercourse (49°03 ' northern latitude is.) lies. Near
Regensburg
the
Danube
turns to the south-east, then it crosses the Viennese hollow, and then more than
600 km
it flows through the Middle-danube lowland. The Danube flows through the territory of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, the Ukraine and runs into the Black sea.
 The
Danube
has many branches that sometimes recesses significantly (10 and more kilometers) out the basic stream. The longest branches on the right bank are the Moshonsky or Dorsky Danube (coil -
1854 km
, source -
1794 km
) and the Dunerja-Veke (237 and
169 km
); on the left bank – the Maliy Danube (source -
1868 km
, run into the Vag), the Shoroksharsky Danube (1642 and
1586 km
), the Borcha (371 and
248 km
). Dozens of cities are situated on banks of the Danube, including capitals of four European countries:
Austria
-
Vienna
(1597 thousand inhabitants),
Serbia
- Belgrad (1168 thousand),
Hungary
-
Budapest
(2016 thousand),
Slovakia
-
Bratislava
(425 thousand). There is a capital of
Bavaria
, the federal
land
of
Germany
(
Munich
, 1250 thousand), on the feeder Izar. In delta of the Danube there are two ship canals – the Romanian and the Ukrainian, providing the alleys of large vessels from the Danube into the
Black sea
.
The navigation continues on the
Danube
during the bigger part of the year and it is intermitted for only 1 - 2 months. In especially warm winters it goes on all year long.
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Danube. A port in Budapest
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Danube. A port in Belgrad
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