{"id":16947,"date":"2023-11-14T03:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16947"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:36:58","slug":"dnieper-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dnieper-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Dnieper River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Dnieper River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the fourth-longest river in Europe (after the Volga, the Danube, and the Ural).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In Russian, the river\u2019s name is Dnepr. In Ukrainian, it is Dnipro, and in Belarusian, it is Dnyapro.<\/li>\n<li>Located in Eastern Europe, the Dnieper River and its many tributaries drain much of Belarus and Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>Historically, the river was an important barrier dividing Ukraine into right and left banks.<\/li>\n<li>Course:\n<ul>\n<li>It originates in Russia, in the low Valday Hills west of Moscow.<\/li>\n<li>It runs a total length of 1,368 miles through western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 300 miles of the waterway is located in Russia, 430 miles are in Belarus, and 680 miles are within Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>It passes through numerous urban centers such as the Russian cities of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, as well as Mogilev in Belarus and Kiev, Cherkasy, Dnipro, and Zaporizhia in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tributaries: It has as many as 32,000 tributaries, including the Sozh, Desna, Trubizh, Bilozerka, Drut, Berezina, and Prypiat Rivers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which countries border Black Sea?<\/h3>\n<p>It is bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/russiaukraine-war-russian-troops-moving-east-of-ukraines-dnipro-river-theres-some-confusion-101699864526304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russian troops moving east of Ukraine&#8217;s Dnipro River? There&#8217;s some \u2018confusion\u2019<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dnieper River is the fourth-longest river in Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}