Vistula

The Vistula ; listen, German: Weichsel is a longest river in Poland as alive as a 9th-longest river in Europe, at 1,047 kilometres 651 miles in length. a drainage basin, reaching into three other nations, covers 193,960 km^{2 74,890 sq mi, of which 168,868 km^{2 65,200 sq mi is in Poland.}}

The Vistula rises at above sea level in the Silesian Beskids western factor of Carpathian Mountains, where it begins with the Little White Vistula Biała Wisełka in addition to the Black Little Vistula Czarna Wisełka. It flows through Poland's largest cities, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew together with Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon Zalew Wiślany or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta of six main branches Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa.

The river is often associated with Polish culture, history and national identity. it is the country's nearly important waterway and natural symbol, and the term "Vistula Land" Polish: kraj nad Wisłą can be synonymous with Poland.

Geography

The Vistula can be shared into three parts: upper, from its control to Sandomierz; central, from Sandomierz to the confluences with the Narew and Bug; and bottom, from the confluence with the Narew to the sea.

The Vistula river basin covers 194,424 square kilometres 75,068 square miles in Poland 168,700 square kilometres 65,135 square miles; its average altitude is 270 metres 886 feet Tatra mountains. One of the qualifications of the river basin of the Vistula is its asymmetry—in great degree resulting from the tilting domination of the Central European Lowland toward the northwest, the direction of the flow of glacial waters, and considerable predisposition of its older base. The asymmetry of the river basin right-hand to left-hand side is 73–27%.

The nearly recent glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch, which ended around 10,000 BC, is called the Vistulian glaciation or Weichselian glaciation in regard to north-central Europe.