List of waterways facts for kids
This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries, lakes, or firths. In practice, and depending on the language, the term "waterway" covers maritime or inland transport routes, as suggested by "way". Wherever a free-flowing river cannot bear load-carrying vessels, the correct term is "watercourse", with no connotation of use for transportation of cargo. To be of practical use, the list distinguishes international maritime waterways (including ship canals), international inland waterways, then inland waterways, including canals and large lakes.
Lists
International waterways
- List of interoceanic canals
- List of transcontinental canals
International maritime waterways
- Danish straits
- Great Belt
- Øresund
- Turkish Straits
- Strait of Malacca
International inland waterways
- St. Croix River (Canada, United States)
- Danube (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania)
- Rhine (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands)
- Mekong (China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
- Nile River (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda)
- Lake Victoria (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya)
- Congo River and its tributaries (Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic)
- Colorado River (United States, Mexico)
- Great Lakes Waterway (US, Canada)
Waterways by country
Argentina
- Rio de La Plata
- Paraná River
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
- Caspian Sea – Note: the capital city of Azerbaijan, Baku is a port on this sea.
Belgium
- Meuse River
- Scheldt River
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
- Saint John (Woolastook) River
- Northwest Passage
- Saint Lawrence Seaway
- Mackenzie River
- St. Marys River and canal of Ontario
- Detroit River
- St. Clair River
- Welland Canal
- Lake St. Clair
- Lake Superior
- Saskatchewan River
- Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay
- Great Bear Lake, including Port Radium
Chile
China
Croatia
- Danube river
- Drava
- Sava River
Egypt
- Nile River
- Lake Nasser
- Suez Canal
- Gulf of Suez
- Gulf of Aqaba
France
- Rhine River
- Rhone River
- Seine River
- Meuse River
- List of canals in France
Germany
India–Bangladesh
- Brahmaputra River – Sadiya to Dhubri stretch (891 km)
- Ganges River – Prayagraj to Haldia stretch (1,620 km)
Iran
- Caspian Sea
- Persian Gulf
- Karun
Netherlands
- IJsselmeer
- Meuse (Maas)
- Rhine River
- Scheldt River
- Waal River
New Zealand
Pakistan
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
- San Bernardino Strait
- Surigao Strait
- Manila Bay
Portugal
- Douro River
Romania
- Danube River
- Danube–Black Sea Canal
- Bega (Tisza)
Russia
- Volga–Baltic Waterway
- White Sea – Baltic Canal
- Amur River
- Caspian Sea
- Lake Baikal
- Dnieper River
- Don River
- Lena River
- Neva River
- Ob River
Serbia
- Danube River
- Sava River
Slovakia
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
- River Severn
- River Thames
- Humber River
United States
- Mississippi River System
- Missouri River
- Monongahela River
- Ohio River
- St. Lawrence Seaway
- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
- Chesapeake Bay
- Columbia River
- Delaware River
- Detroit River
- Erie Canal
- Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
- Hudson River
- Lake Champlain
- Lake Michigan
- Lake Superior
- Sacramento River
- Savannah River
- St. Clair River
- St. Marys River and canal of Michigan
- Tennessee River
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
- List of canals in the United States
Ukraine
Uruguay
Vietnam
See also
- List of canal engineer
- List of canals by country
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