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 What is the length, depth and width of the River Rhine?

 

The River Rhine is the second largest river in Central and Western Europe after the Danube, at about 1.230 km (760 miles) with an average discharge of about 2,900 m 3/S ( 100,000 cu ft/s). The countries it flows through, as it says on the picture on the left, is Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The River Rhine's maximum 

depth is 2.50 meters, but with

the width of 900 meters.

 

 

GLOSSARY

Discharge= 

To unload or remove.

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