List of waterways

Total length of waterways per country in kilometers

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

See also: Lists of waterways

International waterways

• List of interoceanic canals
• List of transcontinental canals

International maritime waterways

• Bosphorus
• Danish straits
  • Great Belt
  • Øresund
• Dardanelles
• Strait of Malacca

International inland waterways

• Danube
• Rhine
• Mekong (China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam)
• Colorado River (US, Mexico)
• Great Lakes Waterway (US, Canada)

Waterways by country

Argentina

• Rio de La Plata
• Parana River

Australia

• Murray River

Austria

• Danube River

Azerbaijan

• Caspian Sea - Note: the capital city of Azerbaijan, Baku is a port on this sea.

Belgium

• Meuse River
• Scheldt River

Bolivia

• Lake Titicaca

Brazil

• Amazon River
• Parana River

Canada

• Northwest Passage
• St. Lawrence Seaway
• Mackenzie River
• St. Marys River and canal of Ontario
• Detroit River
• St. Clair River
• Welland Canal
• Lake St. Clair
• Lake Superior
• Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay
• Great Bear Lake, including Port Radium

People's Republic of China

• Yangtze River
• Yellow River
• Yalu River
• Amur River

Republic of the Congo

• Congo River - also on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Egypt-Sudan

• 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

• Rhine River
• Main River
• Rhine-Main-Danube Canal
• Danube River
• Elbe River
• Kiel Canal

India-Bangladesh

• Brahmaputra river - Sadiya to Dhubri stretch (891 km)
• Ganges river - Allahabad to Haldia stretch (1,620 km)

Iran

• Caspian Sea

Netherlands

See also: List of rivers of the Netherlands

See also: Category:Canals in the Netherlands

• IJsselmeer
• Meuse (Maas)
• Rhine River
• Scheldt River
• Waal River

Pakistan

See also: List of rivers of Pakistan

• Chenab River
• Indus River

Paraguay

• Parana River
• Paraguay River

Peru

• Amazon River
• Lake Titicaca

Philippines

• San Bernardino Strait
• Surigao Strait
• Manila Bay

Romania

• Danube River

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

Slovakia

• Danube River

Switzerland

• Lake Constance
• Lake Geneva
• Rhine River

Turkey

• Bosporus
• Dardanelles
• Sea of Marmara
• Black Sea

United Kingdom

• River Severn
• Thames River
• Humber River

See also: List of estuaries in England

• Waterways in the United Kingdom

United States

See also: Category:Estuaries of the United States

See also: List of straits in the United States

• Mississippi River System
• Missouri 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

• Dnieper River

Uruguay

• Rio de la Plata
• Uruguay River

Vietnam

• Mekong River

See also

• Lists of canals
  • List of canals by country
• List of canal engineers