Seas, rivers, animals and birds
7,160 sq. km. The Danube River is
Europe's second longest river after
the Volga, it rises in Germany's
Black Forest and flows south eastwards for a distance of 2857 km
course through ten countries
(Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria,
Romania, Moldova and Ukraine)
before emptying in Romania's Danube Delta. Some of its 1075 km
length bordering Romania drains
the whole of Romania. In the
1970s, a new dam raised the