Rhine

The first one in Top 9 Longest Rivers in Switzerland that Toplist would like to introduce to you is Rhine. The Rhine is one of Europe's major rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands, and eventually empties into the North Sea.

It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), stretching approximately 1,230 km (760 mi), with an average discharge of approximately 2,900 m3/s (100,000 cu ft/s).

The Rhine and the Danube formed much of the Roman Empire's northern inland boundary, and the Rhine has long been an important navigable waterway bringing trade and goods deep inland. The numerous castles and fortifications built along it attest to its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire. Cologne, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam, Strasbourg, and Basel are among the Rhine's largest and most important cities.

The Rhine's length is traditionally measured in "Rhine-kilometers" (Rheinkilometer), a scale introduced in 1939 that runs from the Old Rhine Bridge in Constance (0 km) to Hook of Holland (1036.20 km).

The river's natural course has been significantly shortened as a result of a number of canalisation projects completed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Formalized paraphrase The "total length of the Rhine," which includes Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine, is more difficult to measure objectively; the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat cited it as 1,232 kilometers (766 miles) in 2010.

Length: 1,230 km (760 mi- shared with Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria and Liechtenstein)