{"id":367979,"date":"2026-07-22T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=367979"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:02:15","slug":"rhine-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rhine-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhine River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>A prolonged heatwave has caused several major European rivers, including the Danube, Rhine, Elbe, and Loire, to dry up, threatening drinking water supplies, inland navigation, trade, and recreational activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Rhine River<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/r\/w768\/upload\/eb\/be\/58\/shutterstock-1294990060.jpg?resize=273%2C273&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rhine River \" width=\"273\" height=\"273\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>12th longest river in Europe. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>longest river in Western and Central Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Source:<\/strong> It originates from two principal sources in <strong>Switzerland, including the Anterior Rhine in Tomasee and Posterior Rhine in Tamin,<\/strong> with both sources located in <strong>Graubunden<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flows through:<\/strong> It flows through <strong>six countries: Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, and the Netherlands.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Additionally, the<strong> Rhine Basin <\/strong>drains<strong> Belgium and parts of Italy and France.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Length:<\/strong> It covers a <strong>distance of 1,230 km<\/strong> from its source in\u00a0Switzerland\u00a0to its mouth in the Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Falls into:<\/strong> Itempties into the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/north-sea\/\">North Sea<\/a> at Rotterdam (Netherlands).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries:<\/strong>\u00a0Major tributaries of the Rhine River include the <strong>Aare, Tamina, Moselle, Erft, Rein da Tuma, Plessur, Rotach, and Wiese rivers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major cities along river: <\/strong>It includes<strong> Basel (Switzerland), Cologne, Bonn, Duisburg, Mainz, Leverkusen, and Neuss (Germany), Strasbourg (France), and Rotterdam and Utrecht (Netherlands).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of <strong>Europe&#8217;s most important rivers<\/strong>, playing a vital role in<strong> industrial transport and production.<\/strong> Nearly <strong>20% of the world&#8217;s chemical industry<\/strong> is concentrated along its banks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A prolonged heatwave has caused several major European rivers, including the Danube, Rhine, Elbe, and Loire, to dry up, threatening drinking water supplies, inland navigation, trade, and recreational activities. About Rhine River It is the 12th longest river in Europe. It is longest river in Western and Central Europe. Source: It originates from two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rhine-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhine River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-367979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}