The
Vistula (Wisla, Weichsel) is the longest and the most important river in Poland, at 1,047 km (651 miles) in length. The watershed area of the Vistula is 194,424 km2 (75,068 sq mi), of which 168,699 km2 (65,135 sq mi) lies within Poland (splitting the country in half).It rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, 1220 meters above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains). It empties into the Vistula Lagoon ( Zalew Wiślany) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta.
It is passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz,
Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk.
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