Rivers Total length Watershed area
total of which: in Hungary total of which: in Hungary
kilometres % square kilometres %
Danube 2,860 417 14.6 817,000 38,915 4.7
Rába 303 192 63.4 .. 5,538 ..
Moson Danube with Rába .. .. .. 18,000 8,700 48.3
Ipoly 215 125 58.1 5,108 1,504 29.4
Zala 119 119 100.0 2,586 2,586 100.0
Sió with Zala and Lake Balaton .. .. .. 22,540 22,540 100.0
Tiszaa 962 597 62.0 157,135 45,010 28.6
Maros 761 50 6.5 30,332 2,100 6.9
Körös rivers
Fehér-Körös 236 10 4.2 4,275 89 2.0
Sebes-Körös 209 59 28.2 9,119 3,438 37.7
Fekete-Körös 168 22 13.1 4,645 12 0.3
Hármas-Körös 91 91 100.0 27,537 12,702 46.1
Kettős-Körös 37 37 100.0 10,386 1,715 16.5
Szamos 415 52 12.5 15,881 338 2.1
Sajó 229 132 57.6 12,708 4,449 35.0
Bodrog 63 50 79.4 13,579 969 7.1
Zagyva 179 179 100.0 5,676 5,559 97.9
Dráva 749 143 19.0 40,095 6,140 15.3

Footnotes

*Sources: The Development of Water Management (Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, Budapest, 1971), Encyclopaedia of Environment Protection (Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2002), Environmental Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2005 (HCSO, Budapest, 2007) National Atlas of Hungary – Natural environment. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geographical Institute, Budapest. (2018).
aIts watershed area includes the watershed areas of river Maros, Körös rivers and rivers Szamos, Bodrog, Sajó and Zagyva.
Source: The Development of Water Management (Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, Budapest, 1971), Encyclopaedia of Environment Protection (Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 2002), Environmental Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2005 (HCSO, Budapest, 2007) National Atlas of Hungary – Natural environment. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geographical Institute, Budapest. (2018).

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