Rivers
Rivers of Europe Quiz
The Volga, the Danube, the Rhine and 37 more: find 40 rivers of Europe on the map, name them in 8 minutes, or learn them first.
Every river is labelled. Tap or click one (or pick it from the list) to see its length, where it starts and ends, the countries and cities it flows through, and a notable fact. Zoom in to see every name.
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Sources and notes
Rivers are drawn from official map data: each river’s named pieces are joined into one line from its source to its mouth, including where it runs through a lake or a reservoir. Tributaries are separate rivers, so the Kama and the Volga, or the Sava, the Tisza and the Danube, are drawn and named on their own.
River lengths depend on where you put the source and the mouth, and on how closely you follow the bends, so books disagree. The lengths here come from one source per river, each checked against at least one other reference: the CIA World Factbook where it lists the river and the others agree (the source the 10 longest rivers quiz uses), a river basin commission or national water agency where one publishes a figure, and other official sources for the rest. Where the figures differ, we use the most widely accepted one.
Local names count: Donau, Dnipro, Wisła, Rhein, Tajo, Maas, Nemunas or Glåma, and you can add or leave out “River”.
Find on the map: we name a river, you click its line or its dot. Practice gives you three tries and highlights the right part of the map after two misses; Test gives you three tries without hints; Strict gives you one. After the last miss, the river is shown and the next one comes up.
The map is a Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on Europe, so the rivers of Russia keep their true size next to those of Western Europe. It reaches the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, the usual eastern edge of Europe; the Ural River, which forms part of that boundary, is included.
CIA World Factbook: Major rivers (CC0 factbook.json archive)
Other river lengths: official sources
International Meuse Commission: The international Meuse (2022)
About these 40 rivers
The longest rivers of Europe, from the Volga, Danube, Ural, Dnieper and Don to the Rhine, Elbe, Vistula and Loire, and the rivers that shaped its capitals and trade: the Thames, the Seine, the Tiber and the Po, the Tagus at Lisbon and the Daugava at Riga.
Some of them end in another river: the Kama and the Oka join the Volga, the Sava, Tisza and Prut the Danube, the Mureș the Tisza, and the Main the Rhine. Europe’s rivers also mark borders: the Oder between Germany and Poland, the Prut between Romania and Moldova, and the Danube along much of its course.
The longest rivers on this map
- Volga 3,531 km (2,194 mi)
- Danube 2,850 km (1,771 mi)
- Ural 2,428 km (1,509 mi)
- Dnieper 2,201 km (1,368 mi)
- Don 1,870 km (1,162 mi)
Each river’s length here is its own, measured by the source named in the notes below; lists of the longest rivers often count a river together with its headwaters or its biggest tributary.