Well, at least on this map Austria-Hungary exists.
Oder and Wisła having almost the same colour sucks.
Huh, I didn’t know Riga had Finnish water flowing through it.
Beautiful how this perfectly copy the borders of Bohemia
Explains all the puny rivers in GB and Italy. No catchment area.
I don’t know what I’m looking at, but it sure is pretty
Europe is interesting in having relatively small watersheds (and a lot of them), compared to other continents. The intrusion of sea in the form of the Baltic, Aegean, Adriatic, Black, Mediterranean seas means lots of “surface area” for outlets rather than rivers converging to a single outlet.
Europe has 5 entries (2000m^3 /second+), tied with Paupa New Guinea. To be fair, PNG is a rainforest, sooo, it’s not apples to apples, and it’s bigger than it looks compared to Europe on most maps due to being closer to the equator than Europe. North America might be the other extreme of relatively few watersheds that are mostly relatively large.
Australia and Antarctica don’t make the list at all. And, of course, the Amazon dwarfs everything else.
EDIT: counting skills deficient, Europe has 6 2000m^3 rivers vs 5 for PNG.
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Well, at least on this map Austria-Hungary exists.
Oder and Wisła having almost the same colour sucks.
Huh, I didn’t know Riga had Finnish water flowing through it.
Beautiful how this perfectly copy the borders of Bohemia
Explains all the puny rivers in GB and Italy. No catchment area.
I don’t know what I’m looking at, but it sure is pretty
Europe is interesting in having relatively small watersheds (and a lot of them), compared to other continents. The intrusion of sea in the form of the Baltic, Aegean, Adriatic, Black, Mediterranean seas means lots of “surface area” for outlets rather than rivers converging to a single outlet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_discharge
Europe has 5 entries (2000m^3 /second+), tied with Paupa New Guinea. To be fair, PNG is a rainforest, sooo, it’s not apples to apples, and it’s bigger than it looks compared to Europe on most maps due to being closer to the equator than Europe. North America might be the other extreme of relatively few watersheds that are mostly relatively large.
Australia and Antarctica don’t make the list at all. And, of course, the Amazon dwarfs everything else.
EDIT: counting skills deficient, Europe has 6 2000m^3 rivers vs 5 for PNG.