Ukraine has around 23,000 rivers, with most of the rivers draining into the Black Sea and Azov Sea and belonging to the larger Mediterranean basin. Those rivers mostly flow in a southerly direction, except for the Pripyat tributaries in Volhynia and Dniester tributaries in Prykarpattia. A few western Ukraine rivers drain to the north west through Poland to the Baltic Sea, as part of the Western Bug drainage basin. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include the Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Bug, and Siverskyi Donets. The longest river is the Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna. Two of the Danube's tributaries in Ukraine, the Prut and the Tysa, are longer than the main river within Ukraine.
In 2013, in accordance with the Water Framework Directive, the territory of Ukraine has been divided into according to major river basins, including the basins of the Vistula (Western Bug and San), Danube, Dniester, Southern Bug, Dnieper, Don, the rivers of the Black Sea littoral, the Sea of Azov littoral, and separately the rivers of Crimea. The biggest river basin by area is the Dnieper which is subdivided into the Pripyat basin, Desna basin, basin of Middle Dnieper, basin of Lower Dnieper. Beside Dnieper, basin of the Danube zoning is also subdivided into basin of Tysa, basin of Prut and Siret, and basin of the Lower Danube.
List of major rivers in Ukraine Listed are rivers over long. Name Name(Cyrillic) Length / km (within Ukraine, including borders) Length / km (total) Drainage area / km2 Basin Dnieper Дніпро 981 2201 Dnieper-Bug Estuary Southern Bug Південний Буг 806 806 Dnieper-Bug Estuary Dniester Дністер 705 1362 Black Sea Siverskyi Donets Сіверський Донець 672 1053 Don Desna Десна 591 1130 Dnieper Horyn Горинь 577Chapter 3. Quantitative characteristics of surface waters 659 Pripyat Inhulets Інгулець 549 549 Dnieper Psel Псел 526 717 Dnieper Sluch Случ 451 451 Horyn Styr Стир 445 494 Pripyat Western Bug Західний Буг 401 831 Narew [Narva] Teteriv Тетерів 385 385 Dnieper Sula Сула 365 365 Dnieper Inhul Інгул 354 354 Southern Bug Vorskla Ворскла 348 464 Dnieper Ros Рось 346 346 Dnieper Oril Оріль 346Division of the small rivers amount in basin of major river of Ukraine 346 Dnieper Udai Удай 327 327 Sula Vovcha Вовча 323 323 Samara Samara Самара 320 320 Dnieper Khorol Хорол 308 308 Psel Prut Прут 272 967 Danube Pripyat Прип'ять 261 761 Dnieper Uzh Уж 256 256 Pripyat Zbruch Збруч 244 244 Dniester Seret Серет 242 242 Серет, Словарь современных географических названий Dniester Stryi Стрий 232 232 Стрый, Словарь современных географических названий Dniester Seim Сейм 222Rivers, lakes, and swamps of the Chernihiv land 748 Desna Aidar Айдар 213Ecological passport of the Luhansk Oblast 264 Siverskyi Donets Kalmius Кальміус 209 209 Sea of Azov Salhir Салгир 204Салгир, Словарь современных географических названий 204 Syvash Tysa Тиса 201 966 Danube Vysun Висунь 201 201 Inhulets Oster Остер 199 201 Desna Luhan Лугань 198 198 Siverskyi Donets Molochna Молочна 197 197 Sea of Azov Snov Снов 190 253 Desna Stokhid Стохід 188 188 Pripyat Turija Турія 184 184 Pripyat Oskil Оскiл 177 472 Siverskyi Donets Danube Дунай 174 2900 Black Sea Ubort Уборть 171 292 Pripyat Krynka Кринка 170 180 Mius River Smotrych Смотрич 168 168 Dniester Hirsky Tikych Гірський Тікич 167 167 Hnylyi Tikych Velyka Vys Велика Вись 166 166 Synyukha Murafa Мурафа 163 163 Dniester Irpin Ірпінь 162 162 Dnieper Tiasmyn Тясмин 160 160 Dnieper Bazavluk Базавлук 157 157 Dnieper Hnylyi Tikych Гнилий Тікич 157 157 Synyukha Ikva Іква 156 156 Styr Chychyklia Чичиклія156156 Southern Bug Tylihul Тилігул 154 154 Black Sea Derkul Деркул 153 163 Siverskyi Donets Velykyi Kuialnyk Великий Куяльник 150 150 Black Sea Stvyha Ствига 66 178 Pripyat
Black Sea basin
Sea of Azov basin
Baltic Sea basin
Trivia The most water in Ukraine is carried by Dnieper. Its annual drainage volume is . The only other river that has higher drainage volume is the Danube which running through Central Europe within Ukraine stretches only for . The average annual drainage of the Danube is around .
The deepest river of Ukraine is Dniester. In its mid stream between Pyzhniv village and Mohyliv-Podilsky through the Dniester canyon (Podillia Upland) the river narrows to in width and deepens up to .
The biggest water amount among distributaries is carried by the Chilia branch.
The biggest river delta in Ukraine belongs to Dnieper and has area of , while the Danube Delta within Ukraine is only .
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See also Waterfalls of Ukraine List of rivers of Europe :Category:Rivers of Ukraine
References
Further reading (Copies of the works are available at the Electronic library "Chtyvo") Shvets, H., Drozd, N., Levchenko, S. Catalog of rivers of the Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv: "Publishing of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR", 1957. Klymenko, V. Hydrology of Ukraine. Kharkiv: "Karazin National University publishing", 2010.
External links Rivers of Ukraine suitable for Rafting Matsenko, H. Book of records of Ukraine. Nature around us. "Bohdan Books".