Danube

Danube
The Danube in Vienna
Coorse o the Danube, merkit in reid
Basin
Main source	Breg Martinskapelle, Black Forest, Germany 1,078 m (3,537 ft) 48°05′44″N 08°09′18″E / 48.09556°N 8.15500°E / 48.09556; 8.15500
2nt source	Brigach St. Georgen, Black Forest, Germany 940 m (3,080 ft) 48°06′24″N 08°16′51″E / 48.10667°N 8.28083°E / 48.10667; 8.28083
River mooth	Danube Delta Romanie 45°13′3″N 29°45′41″E / 45.21750°N 29.76139°E / 45.21750; 29.76139 29°45′41″E / 45.21750°N 29.76139°E / 45.21750; 29.76139
Basin size	801,463 km2 (309,447 sq mi)
Pheesical chairacteristics
Lenth	2,850 km (1,770 mi)
Dischairge	Location: afore delta Average rate: 7,000 m3/s (250,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge (location 2)	Location: Passau 30km afore toun Average rate: 580 m3/s (20,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge (location 3)	Location: Vienna Average rate: 1,900 m3/s (67,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge (location 4)	Location: Budapest Average rate: 2,350 m3/s (83,000 cu ft/s)
Dischairge (location 5)	Location: Belgrade Average rate: 4,000 m3/s (140,000 cu ft/s)

Classified as an internaitional watterway, it oreeginates in the toun o Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest o Germany at the confluence o the rivers Brigach an Breg. The Danube then flaws sootheast for 2,872 km (1,785 mi), passin through fower Central European caipitals afore emptyin intae the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romanie an Ukraine.

Ance a lang-staundin frontier o the Roman Empire, the river passes through or touches the borders o ten kintras: Romanie (29.0% o basin aurie), Hungary (11.6%), Serbie (10.2%), Austrick (10.0%), Germany (7.0%), Bulgarie (5.9%), Slovakie (5.9%), Croatie (4.4%), Ukraine (3.8%), an Moldovae (1.6%). Its drainage basin extends intae nine mair.