Danube River
The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, with a length of 2,850 km. It begins in the Black Forest in Germany and flows east to the Black Sea, forming the Danube Delta on its western coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: second-longest river in Europe
- Also known as: “Danube”, “Donau”, and “River Danube”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lošmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Danube River
- Categories: river, transboundary river, and body of water
- Location: Romania, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Danube River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Donau”
- Albanian: “Danubi”
- Albanian: “Lumi i Danubit”
- Amharic: “ዳኑብ ወንዝ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἴστρος (Istros)” (historical)
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἴστρος”
- Arabic: “دانوب”
- Aragonese: “Río Danubio”
- Armenian: “Դանուբ”
- Assamese: “ডানয়ুব নদী”
- Asturian: “Danubiu”
- Asturian: “ríu Danubiu”
- Avaric: “Дануб”
- Azerbaijani: “Dunay”
- Balinese: “Tukad Danube”
- Bashkir: “Дунай”
- Basque: “Danubio”
- Bavarian: “Doana”
- Bavarian: “Donau”
- Belarusian: “Дунай”
- Bengali: “দানিউব নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “डेन्यूब नदी”
- Bosnian: “Dunav”
- Breton: “Danav”
- Bulgarian: “Дунав”
- Burmese: “ဒန်ညုမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Danubi”
- Cebuano: “Danube River”
- Central Bikol: “Danubio”
- Central Kurdish: “دانووب”
- Chechen: “Дунай”
- Chinese: “Donau Hô”
- Chinese: “多瑙河”
- Church Slavic: “Доунавъ”
- Chuvash: “Тăнай шывĕ”
- Chuvash: “Танай”
- Cornish: “Danaw”
- Corsican: “Danubiu”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tuna”
- Croatian: “Dunav”
- Czech: “Dunaj”
- Dagbani: “Donau”
- Danish: “Donau”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tuna”
- Dutch: “Donau”
- Eastern Mari: “Дунай”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الدانوب”
- Esperanto: “Danubo”
- Estonian: “Doonau”
- Fiji Hindi: “Danube Naddi”
- Finnish: “Tonava”
- French: “Danube”
- Galician: “Danubio”
- Galician: “Río Danubio”
- Georgian: “დუნაი”
- German: “Donau”
- Gothic: “𐌳𐍉𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌹/Donawi”
- Greek: “Δάννουβις”
- Greek: “Δούναβης”
- Guarani: “Danúvio”
- Hebrew: “דנובה”
- Hebrew: “מסלול הטיול במורד נהר הדנובה”
- Hindi: “डैन्यूब नदी”
- Hungarian: “Duna”
- Icelandic: “Dóná”
- Ido: “Danubio”
- Iloko: “Danubio”
- Indonesian: “Danube”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Danube”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Donau”
- Ingush: “Дунай”
- Interlingua: “Danubio”
- Interlingua: “Fluvio Danubio”
- Interlingue: “Danubio”
- Irish: “an Danóib”
- Irish: “An Danóib”
- Irish: “Danóib”
- Italian: “Danubio”
- Italian: “Istro”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Danyuub”
- Japanese: “ドナウ川”
- Javanese: “Kali Danube”
- Kabiyè: “Taaniibi pɔɔ”
- Kabyle: “Asif n Danub”
- Kabyle: “Danub”
- Kannada: “ಡ್ಯಾನ್ಯೂಬ್”
- Kannada: “ಡ್ಯಾನ್ಯೂಬ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Dunay da’ryasi”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Dunay”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Дунай”
- Kazakh: “Дунай”
- Kirghiz: “Дунай дарыясы”
- Kirghiz: “Дунай”
- Komering: “Way Danube”
- Korean: “다뉴브 강”
- Korean: “다뉴브강”
- Korean: “도나우 강”
- Korean: “도나우강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Duna”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Dunayê”
- Ladin: “Donau”
- Latin: “Danubius” (historical)
- Latin: “Danuvius” (historical)
- Latvian: “Donava”
- Lezghian: “Дунай”
- Limburgan: “Donau”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Danubio”
- Literary Chinese: “多瑙河”
- Lithuanian: “Dunojus”
- Lombard: “Danubi”
- Low German: “Donau”
- Lower Sorbian: “Dunaj”
- Luxembourgish: “Donau”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Duna”
- Macedonian: “Дунав”
- Madurese: “Songay Donau”
- Malagasy: “Danube”
- Malay: “Danube”
- Malayalam: “ഡാന്യൂബ്”
- Marathi: “डॅन्यूब नदी”
- Mazanderani: “دانوب”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Donau Hô”
- Mingrelian: “დუნაი”
- Mirandese: “Riu Danúbio”
- Mongolian: “Дунай мөрөн”
- Narom: “Danube”
- Nepali: “डेन्युब नदी”
- Newari: “डेन्युब”
- Northern Frisian: “Donau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Donau”
- Norwegian: “Donau”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Danube”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Danubi”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Donua”
- Ossetian: “Донай”
- Ossetian: “Дунай”
- Panjabi: “ਦਨੂਬ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “دانوب”
- Piemontese: “Danubi”
- Polish: “Dunaj”
- Portuguese: “Rio Danúbio”
- Pushto: “دانوب”
- Quechua: “Danuwyu mayu”
- Romanian: “Dunărea”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Dunărea”
- Romansh: “Danubi”
- Russia Buriat: “Дунай мүрэн”
- Russian: “Дунай”
- Rusyn: “Дунай”
- Samogitian: “Donuojos”
- Sardinian: “Danùbiu”
- Saterfriesisch: “Donau”
- Scots: “Danube”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Danòib”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Danòib”
- Serbian: “Dunav”
- Serbian: “Дунав”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dunav”
- Sicilian: “Danùbbiu”
- Silesian: “Důnaj”
- Sindhi: “ڊينيوب ندي”
- Slovak: “Dunaj”
- Slovenian: “Donava”
- Somali: “Danube”
- South Azerbaijani: “دانوب چایی”
- Spanish: “Danubio”
- Swahili: “Danubi”
- Swedish: “Donau”
- Swiss German: “Donau”
- Tachelhit: “Asif n Udanub”
- Tagalog: “Danubio”
- Tajik: “Дунай”
- Talysh: “Dunaj”
- Tamil: “தன்யூபு ஆறு”
- Tamil: “தன்யூப் ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Дунай”
- Telugu: “డానుబే”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำดานูบ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Donau”
- Turkish: “Tuna”
- Turkmen: “Dunaý”
- Tyap: “A̱ghyui Da̱nube”
- Tyap: “Da̱nube”
- Udmurt: “Дунай”
- Ukrainian: “Дунай”
- Upper Sorbian: “Dunaj”
- Urdu: “دریائے ڈینیوب”
- Uzbek: “Dunay”
- Venetian: “Danuvio”
- Veps: “Dunai”
- Vietnamese: “sông Đa Nuýp”
- Vietnamese: “sông Đa-nuýp”
- Vietnamese: “sông Danube”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Danube”
- Vietnamese: “sông Donau”
- Vlaams: “Donau”
- Vlax Romani: “Dunaja”
- Volapük: “Danub”
- Volapük: “Danube”
- Walloon: “Danube”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danube”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danubio”
- Welsh: “Afon Donaw”
- Welsh: “Afon Donwy”
- Welsh: “Donaw”
- Welsh: “Donwy”
- Western Armenian: “Տանուպ Գետ”
- Western Armenian: “Տանուպ”
- Western Frisian: “Donau”
- Western Mari: “Дунай”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ ڈینیوب”
- Wu Chinese: “多瑙河”
- Yakut: “Дунаай”
- Yiddish: “דוניי”
- Yoruba: “Odò Dánúbì”
- Yue Chinese: “多瑙河”
- “Danubie”
- “Danubio”
- “Donuojos”
- “Duna”
- “nasin telo Tona”
- “Дунэре”
- “डेन्यूब नदी”
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