{"id":18296,"date":"2024-06-05T04:52:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18296"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:31:02","slug":"rhine-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rhine-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Rhine River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Rhine River:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the 12th longest river in Europe and the <strong>longest in Western and Central Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is called different names depending on the country it flows through. It is called Rhein in Germany, Rhine in France, and Rijn in Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>It runs for over 1,232 km (766 miles) from its <strong>source in the Swiss Alps (in Switzerland).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>flows through six countries<\/strong> &#8211;<strong>Switzerland<\/strong>, Principality of <strong>Liechtenstein<\/strong>, <strong>Austria<\/strong>, <strong>Germany<\/strong>, France and the <strong>Netherlands<\/strong> before <strong>flowing into the North Sea at Rotterdam<\/strong>, Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>The Rhine forms a <strong>natural border between Germany and France.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The river drains an area of about 185,000 square kilometres.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tributaries<\/strong>: Some of the notable tributaries of the Rhine River include <strong>Aare, Tamina<\/strong>, <strong>Moselle, Erft, Rein da Tuma, Plessur, Rotach,<\/strong> and <strong>Wiese<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>Europe&#8217;s most important commercial waterway<\/strong>, <strong>channeling<\/strong> the flow of <strong>trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>major cities<\/strong> along the Rhine include <strong>Basel<\/strong> (Switzerland), Cologne, <strong>Bonn<\/strong>, Duisburg, Mainz, <strong>Leverkusen<\/strong>, and <strong>Neuss<\/strong> (Germany), <strong>Strasbourg<\/strong> (France), and <strong>Rotterdam<\/strong> and <strong>Utrecht<\/strong> (Netherlands).<\/li>\n<li>It facilitates industrial transportation and supports industrial production, with about <strong>20% of the world\u2019s chemical industries manufacturing<\/strong> along the river.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Which countries border the North Sea?<\/h3>\n<p>The countries that surround the North Sea include the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/environment\/river-rhine-in-germany-closed-to-shipping-after-rain-raises-water-level\/2113573\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">River Rhine in Germany closed to shipping after rain raises water level<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhine River is the 12th longest river in Europe and the longest in Western and Central Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18296","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\/18296","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=18296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}