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This article is about the river. For other uses, see Danube (disambiguation). "Dunaj" redirects here. For the Polish village, see Dunaj, Masovian Voivodeship. "Donau" redirects here. For the German ship, see SS Donau. Coordinates: 45°13'3?N 29°45'41?E? / ?45.2175°N 29.76139°E? / 45.2175; 29.76139 Danube Donau, Dunaj, Duna,
?????/Dunav, Dunarea, ???á? (Dunay), Donava The Iron Gate, on the Romanian–Serbian border (Iron Gate natural park and Ðerdap national park) Cities Ulm, Regensburg, Passau, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Vukovar, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Vidin, Svishtov, Rousse, Giurgiu, Silistra, Macin Primary source Breg - location Martinskapelle, Black Forest, Germany - elevation 925 m (3,035 ft) - length 43 km (27 mi) - coordinates 48°06'25?N 08°16'57?E? / ?48.10694°N 8.2825°E? / 48.10694; 8.2825 Secondary source Brigach - location St. Georgen, Black Forest, Germany - elevation 1,078 m (3,537 ft) - length 49 km (30 mi) Source confluence - location Donaueschingen Mouth Danube Delta - coordinates 45°13'3?N 29°45'41?E? / ?45.2175°N 29.76139°E? / 45.2175; 29.76139 Length 2,860 km (1,777 mi) Basin 817,000 km² (315,445 sq mi) Discharge for before delta - average 6,500 m³/s (229,545 cu ft/s) Danube River

The Danube (In German: Donau from earlier Danuvius, Celtic *danu, meaning "to flow, run", Slovak and Polish Dunaj, Hungarian Duna, Romanian Dunarea, Old Norse Duná, Turkish Tuna, ancient Greek Istros, Slovenian Donava, Croatian Dunav, Serbian ?????/Dunav, Bulgarian ????? (Dunav), Ukrainian ?????, Arabic and Farsi ?????) is the longest river in the European
Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.

It originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through four Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.

Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river flows through — or forms a part of the borders of — ten countries: Germany (7.5%), Austria (10.3%), Slovakia (5.8%), Hungary (11.7%), Croatia (4.5%), Serbia (10.3%), Romania (28.9%), Bulgaria (5.2%), Moldova (1.7%), and Ukraine (3.8%).[citation needed] Contents [hide] 1 Name 2 Geography 2.1 Tributaries 2.2 Cities 2.3 Sectioning 3 Modern navigation 4 The Danube delta 5 Geology 6 Human history 6.1 Ancient cultural perspectives of the lower Danube 7 Danube Bike Trail 8 Cultural significance 9 Economics of the Danube 9.1 Drinking water 9.2 Navigation and transport 9.3 Fishing 9.4 Tourism 10 Important National Parks 11 Notes 12 See also 13 External links //

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The English language has, since the Norman conquest of England, used the French word Danube. In addition to the Danubian countries, the drainage basin includes parts of nine more

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