Scheldt

The second one in Top 10 Longest Rivers in Belgium that Toplist wants to introduce to you is Scheldt. The Scheldt is a 360 kilometer (220 mile) river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern Netherlands, eventually emptying into the North Sea.

The Scheldt's headwaters are in Gouy, in the northern French department of Aisne. It runs through Cambrai and Valenciennes before entering Belgium near Tournai. Ghent grew up at the confluence of the Lys, one of its main tributaries, and the Scheldt, which flows east. The Scheldt flows west into the Netherlands toward the North Sea near Antwerp, the largest city on its banks.

From that point, there were two branches: the Oosterschelde (Eastern Scheldt) and the Westerschelde (Western Scheldt). However, in the nineteenth century, the Dutch constructed a dyke that separates the river from its eastern (northern) branch and connects Zuid-Beveland to the mainland (North Brabant). The river now only flows into the Westerschelde estuary, passing through Terneuzen on its way to the North Sea between Breskens in Zeelandic Flanders and Vlissingen (Flushing) on Walcheren.

The Scheldt is a significant waterway that has been made navigable from its mouth to Cambrai. The Canal de Saint-Quentin follows its course above Cambrai. Antwerp's port, Europe's second-largest, grew up on its banks. Several canals (including the Albert Canal) connect the Scheldt to the Rhine, Meuse, and Seine river basins, as well as the industrial areas of Brussels, Liège, Lille, Dunkirk, and Mons.

Length: 360 km (220 mi- shared with France and the Netherlands)