VistulaThe Vistula is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres in length. Its drainage basin, extending into three other countries apart from Poland, covers 193,960 km2, of which 168,868 km2 is in Poland....
The Baltic Sea is so nearly landlocked (and its outlet so shallow) that its waters are remarkably fresh. Its longest rivers, theVistulaand theOder, drain regions that have a temperatecontinental climate; they have low evaporation rates and become swollen by spring snowmelt, thus further reducing...
and theVistula, which rise in the uplands of central Europe and flow in a general northwesterly direction across the lowlands to the North orBaltic Sea. Each of these rivers reveals distinct right-angle bends, the result of the Pleistocene ice sheets, the margins andterminalmoraines of which...
19th, the Dnieper was connected to the Baltic Sea by several canals: the Dnieper–Bug Canal, running by way of the Pripet, Bug, and Vistula rivers; the Ahinski Canal by way of the Pripet and the Neman; and the Byarezina water system by way of the Byarezina and the Western Dvina....