The Volga is the longest river in Europe, and its catchment area is almost entirely inside Russia, though the longest river in Russia is the Ob–Irtysh river system. It belongs to the closed basin of the Caspian Sea, being the longest river to flow into a closed basin.Rising in the Valdai Hills 225 meters (738 ft) above sea level northwest of Moscow and about 320 kilometers (200 mi) …

Dec 13, 2021 · Blank World Map: The map of the world blank displayed here is a topography relief representation of the world with white lines denoting the borders of important countries. The identities of the oceans of the world, as well as important beaches, bodies of water, other coasts, are included. The greatest grades are depicted in green color, with both a gradation from green …

Danube River, German Donau, Slovak Dunaj, Hungarian Duna, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian Dunav, Romanian Dunărea, Ukrainian Dunay, river, the second longest in Europe after the Volga. It rises in the Black Forest mountains of western Germany and flows for some 1,770 miles (2,850 km) to its mouth on the Black Sea. Along its course it passes through 10 countries: …

Jun 28, 2021 · Volga River. The Volga River is the longest in Europe and western Russia’s principal waterway. It covers much of the Volga region and stretches 3,530 kilometers from its source in the Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland water body.The Volga River Basin covers almost two-fifth of European Russia and hosts about half of Russia’s …

Dec 10, 2022 · Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union), Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Russia is a land of superlatives. By far the …

Oct 26, 2022 · Download as PDF. In the geographical context, Europe has the highest coastline to landmass ratio than any other continent. The continent shares its maritime border with the major oceans in the world that includes the arctic ocean, Atlantic ocean, Mediterranean sea, etc. Europe is also the home to some of the well-known rivers in the world such as Volga, Elbe, …

The Kama (Russian: Ка́ма, IPA: ; Tatar: Чулман; Udmurt: Кам) is a 1,805-kilometre (1,122 mi) long river in Russia.It has a drainage basin of 507,000 square kilometres (196,000 sq mi). It is the longest left tributary of the Volga and the largest one in discharge. At their confluence, in fact, the Kama is even larger than the Volga.

Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal (Russian:Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени, В. И. Ленина, Volga-Donskoy soudokhodniy kanal imeni V. I. Lenina, abbreviated ВДСК, VDSK) is a ship canal in Russia.It connects the Volga and the Don at their closest points. Opened in 1952, its length is 101 km (63 mi), 45 km (28 mi) of which is through rivers and ...

The steppe extends roughly from the Danube to the Ural River. In this map is shown the region known as Pontic Steppe, which is the biggest portion of the whole Pontic-Caspian Steppe. ... Volga Tatars, Nogais and other Turkic states and tribes 15th–18th centuries; Russian Empire 16th–20th centuries; Mountainous Republic of the Northern ...

Mesopotamia is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.Today, Mesopotamia occupies modern Iraq. In the broader sense, the historical region included present-day Iraq and Kuwait and parts of present-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.. The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and …