Key facts
- Native name
- Свіслач ( Belarusian ) Свислочь ( Russian )
- Country
- Belarus
- Location
- Grodno Region
- Length
- 327 km (203 mi)
- Basin size
- 5,160 km (1,990 sq mi)
- Average
- 30 m /s (1,100 cu ft/s)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Berezina → ‹See Tfd› Dnieper → ‹See Tfd› Dnieper–Bug estuary → Black Sea
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Belarus-Svislach River-1.jpg
- Length
- 327
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Svislač River
- watershed area
- 5160
- discharge
- 24.3
- native label
- Свіслач
- OpenStreetMap zoom level
- 8
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Article
The Svislach (Belarusian: Свіслач, romanized: Śvislač, pronounced [ˈsʲvʲisɫatʂ] ) or Svisloch (Russian: Свислочь) is a river in Belarus. A right-bank tributary of the river Berezina, the Svislach is 327 kilometres (203 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 5,160 square kilometres (1,990 sq mi).
Its name is derived from the root -visl- 'flowing,' of Indo-European origin (compare Vistula).
On the map
Connections
Belarus
Country
Russian
Entity
Black Sea
Entity
Minsk
Entity
Belarusian
Entity
geographic coordinate system
Entity
Dnieper
Entity
Vistula
Entity
tributary
Entity
Grodno Region
Entity
river mouth
Entity
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Entity
Berezina
Entity
Dnieper-Bug Estuary
Entity
romanization of Belarusian
Entity
Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script
Entity