Rhine | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:01:43 1 Name
00:03:32 2 Geography
00:04:33 2.1 Headwaters and sources
00:04:43 2.1.1 Sources
00:05:36 2.1.2 Anterior Rhine and Posterior Rhine
00:09:59 2.2 Alpine Rhine
00:12:45 2.3 Lake Constance
00:13:38 2.3.1 Obersee
00:15:10 2.3.2 Seerhein
00:16:01 2.3.3 Untersee
00:17:04 2.4 High Rhine
00:19:37 2.5 Upper Rhine
00:24:40 2.6 Middle Rhine
00:27:47 2.7 Lower Rhine
00:30:33 2.8 Delta
00:37:57 3 Geologic history
00:38:07 3.1 Alpine orogeny
00:40:39 3.2 Stream capture
00:44:49 3.3 End of the last ice age
00:47:06 3.4 Holocene delta
00:50:02 4 Cultural history
00:50:12 4.1 Antiquity
00:55:38 4.2 Medieval and modern history
01:01:05 5 Lists of features
01:01:15 5.1 Cities on the Rhine
01:01:24 5.2 Countries and borders
01:04:16 5.3 Bridges
01:04:25 5.4 Former distributaries
01:05:18 5.5 Canals
01:06:00 6 See also
01:06:32 7 Notes and references



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SUMMARY
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The Rhine (Latin: Rhenus, Romansh: Rein, German: Rhein, French: le Rhin, Italian: Reno, Dutch: Rijn) is one of the major European rivers, which has its sources in Switzerland and flows in an mostly northerly direction through Germany and The Netherlands, emptying into the North Sea. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
The largest city on the Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people. It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1,230 km (760 mi), with an average discharge of about 2,900 m3/s (100,000 cu ft/s).
The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a vital and navigable waterway carrying trade and goods deep inland.
Its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire is supported by the many castles and fortifications built along it. In the modern era, it has become a symbol of German nationalism.
Among the biggest and most important cities on the Rhine are Cologne, Düsseldorf (Germany), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Strasbourg (France) and Basel (Switzerland).