Danube River
The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, with a length of 2,850 km. It begins in the Black Forest in Germany and flows east to the Black Sea, forming the Danube Delta on its western coast.Photo: UED77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Lošmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Photo: Lošmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Danube River
- Type: Stream
- Description: second-longest river in Europe
- Categories: river, transboundary river and body of water
- Location: Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.33333° or 45° 20' northLongitude
29.66667° or 29° 40' eastElevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)Open Location Code
8GQF8MM8+8MGeoNames ID
791630Wikidata ID
Q1653Danube River Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Asif n Danub
- Afar: Dunay
- Afrikaans: Donau
- Albanian: Danubi
- Albanian: Lumi i Danubit
- Amharic: ዳኑብ ወንዝ
- Ancient Greek (to 1453) (Historic): Ἴστρος (Istros)
- Arabic: Danubio
- Arabic: دانوب
- Aragonese: Río Danubio
- Armenian: Դանուբ
- Armenian: Տանուպ Գետ
- Assamese: ডানয়ুব নদী
- Asturian: Danubiu
- Asturian: ríu Danubiu
- Avaric: Дануб
- Azerbaijani: Dunay
- Balinese: Tukad Danube
- Bashkir: Дунай
- Basque: Danubio
- Bavarian: Doana
- Bavarian: Donau
- Belarusian: Дунай
- Bengali: দানিউব নদী
- Bhojpuri: डेन्यूब नदी
- Bosnian: Dunav
- Breton: Danav
- Bulgarian: Дунав
- Burmese: ဒန်ညုမြစ်
- Catalan: Danubi
- Cebuano: Danube River
- Central Bikol: Danubio
- Central Kurdish: دانووب
- Chechen: Дунай
- Chinese: Donau Hô
- Chinese: 多瑙河
- Church Slavic: Доунавъ
- Chuvash: Тăнай шывĕ
- Chuvash: Танай
- Cornish: Danaw
- Corsican: Danubiu
- Crimean Tatar: Tuna
- Croatian: Dunav
- Czech: Dunaj
- Dagbani: Donau
- Danish: Donau
- Dimli (individual language): Tuna
- Dutch: Donau
- Eastern Mari: Дунай
- Egyptian Arabic: نهر الدانوب
- English: Danube
- English: Donau
- English: River Danube
- Esperanto: Danubo
- Estonian: Doonau
- Fiji Hindi: Danube Naddi
- Finnish: Tonava
- French: Danube
- Galician: Danubio
- Galician: Río Danubio
- Georgian: დუნაი
- German: Donau
- Gothic: 𐌳𐍉𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌹/Donawi
- Greek: Δάννουβις
- Greek: Δούναβης
- Guarani: Danúvio
- Hebrew: דנובה
- Hebrew: מסלול הטיול במורד נהר הדנובה
- Hindi: डैन्यूब नदी
- Hungarian: Duna
- Icelandic: Dóná
- Ido: Danubio
- Iloko: Danubio
- Indonesian: Danube
- Indonesian: Sungai Danube
- Ingush: Дунай
- Interlingua: Danubio
- Interlingua: Fluvio Danubio
- Interlingue: Danubio
- Irish: An Danóib
- Italian: Danubio
- Italian: Istro
- Jamaican Creole English: Danyuub
- Japanese: ドナウ川
- Javanese: Kali Danube
- Kabiyè: Taaniibi pɔɔ
- Kabyle: Danub
- Kannada: ಡ್ಯಾನ್ಯೂಬ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Dunay da'ryasi
- Karachay-Balkar: Дунай
- Kazakh: Дунай
- Kirghiz: Дунай дарыясы
- Korean: 다뉴브 강
- Korean: 다뉴브강
- Korean: 도나우강
- Korean: 도나우 강
- Kurdish: Çemê Duna
- Ladin: Donau
- Lao: Danubio
- Latin (Historic): Danubius
- Latin (Historic): Danuvius
- Latin: Danubius
- Latvian: Donava
- Lezghian: Дунай
- Limburgan: Donau
- Lingua Franca Nova: Rio Danubio
- Literary Chinese: 多瑙河
- Lithuanian: Dunojus
- Lombard: Danubi
- Low German: Donau
- Lower Sorbian: Dunaj
- Luxembourgish: Donau
- Macedo-Romanian: Duna
- Macedonian: Дунав
- Malagasy: Danube
- Malay: Danube
- Malayalam: ഡാന്യൂബ്
- Marathi: डॅन्यूब नदी
- Min Nan Chinese: Donau Hô
- Mingrelian: დუნაი
- Mirandese: Riu Danúbio
- Mongolian: Дунай мөрөн
- Narom: Danube
- Nepali: डेन्युब
- Nepali: डेन्युब नदी
- Newari: डेन्युब
- Northern Frisian: Donau
- Norwegian: Donau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Donau
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Donau
- Nyanja: Mtsinje wa Danube
- Occitan (post 1500): Danubi
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Donua
- Ossetian: Донай
- Ossetian: Дунай
- Panjabi: ਦਨੂਬ ਦਰਿਆ
- Persian: دانوب
- Piemontese: Danubi
- Polish: Dunaj
- Portuguese: Rio Danúbio
- Pushto: دانوب
- Quechua: Danuwyu mayu
- Romanian: Dunărea
- Romansh: Danubi
- Russia Buriat: Дунай мүрэн
- Russian: Дунай
- Rusyn: Дунай
- Samogitian: Donuojos
- Sardinian: Danùbiu
- Saterfriesisch: Donau
- Scots: Danube
- Scottish Gaelic: An Danòib
- Scottish Gaelic: Danòib
- Serbian: Dunav
- Serbian: Дунав
- Serbo-Croatian: Asif n Udanub
- Serbo-Croatian: Dunav
- Sicilian: Danùbbiu
- Silesian: Důnaj
- Slovak: Dunaj
- Slovenian: Donava
- South Azerbaijani: دانوب چایی
- Spanish: Danubio
- Swahili: Danubi
- Swedish: Donau
- Swiss German: Donau
- Tachelhit: Asif n Udanub
- Tagalog: Danubio
- Tajik: Дунай
- Talysh: Dunaj
- Tamil: தன்யூபு ஆறு
- Tamil: தன்யூப் ஆறு
- Tatar: Дунай
- Telugu: డానుబే
- Thai: แม่น้ำดานูบ
- Tosk Albanian: Donau
- Turkish: Tuna
- Turkmen: Dunaý
- Tyap: A̱ghyui Da̱nube
- Tyap: Da̱nube
- Udmurt: Дунай
- Ukrainian: Дунай
- Upper Sorbian: Dunaj
- Urdu: دریائے ڈینیوب
- Uzbek: Dunay
- Venetian: Danuvio
- Veps: Dunai
- Vietnamese: sông Danube
- Vietnamese: sông Donau
- Vietnamese: sông Đa-nuýp
- Vietnamese: sông Đa Nuýp
- Vlaams: Donau
- Vlax Romani: Dunaja
- Volapük: Danub
- Volapük: Danube
- Walloon: Danube
- Waray (Philippines): Danube
- Welsh: Afon Donaw
- Welsh: Afon Donwy
- Welsh: Donaw
- Welsh: Donwy
- Western Armenian: Տանուպ
- Western Frisian: Donau
- Western Mari: Дунай
- Western Panjabi: دریاۓ ڈینیوب
- Wu Chinese: 多瑙河
- Yakut: Дунаай
- Yiddish: דוניי
- Yoruba: Odò Dánúbì
- Yue Chinese: 多瑙河
- Danubie
- Sungai Donau
- Sông Danube
- Çemê Dunayê
- Дунэре
Localities in the Area
- SfiștofcaHamlet, 7 km southwest
- C. A. RosettiVillage, 9 km southwest
- Vylkove
- CardonHamlet, 11 km south
- PeripravaVillage, 12 km northwest
Landmarks in the Area
- Ostriv StambulskyiIsland, 2½ km north
- Ostrovul PopinaIsland, 4 km south
- Ostriv PishchanyiIsland, 4½ km northeast
- Ostriv KubanskyiIsland, 5 km southeast
- Danube biosphere reserveReserve, 6 km north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Danube River. Photo: Lošmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.