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The Danube is the second longest river in Europe with a total length of 2840 km. Its origin is on the eastside of the southern Black Forest in Donaueschingen. Their the two brooks Brigach and Breg are unifying with the water from the official source that is located in Donaueschingen. In the region of Immendingen the Danube is loosing water that seeps away through the calcarous soil to the Lake Constance. During hot summers the river is in places drying out totally. It breaks through the Swabian Mountains and flows, beginning at Sigmaringen, between the rising Alps to the South and the Swabian and Frankian Mountains and the Bavarian Forest to the North. The river leaves Germany at Passau, reaches the Tullner Field at Krems, crosses the Vienna Basin and reaches at Bratislava the Small Hungarian Lowlands. After the breakthrough of the Hungarian Middle Range Mountains it is flowing through the Great Hungarian Lowlands at the south of Budapest. At the Iron Gate it breaks through the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkans. Afterwards it is flowing through the Romanian Lowlands (Wallachia) at the border of the Bulgarian Table Mountains and the Dobrudscha. The Danube turns to the east again at Galati and flows into the Black Sea with a great swampy delta and three major channels, the Kilija, Sulina and St. George Channel.

Residental States:
Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Ukraine