A National River is a river that is of great importance for a country and acts as national symbol.
Examples of national rivers include:
- The Ganges River, the officially declared national river of the Republic of India
- The Karun, the largest river in Iran ; sometimes considered as the national river
- The Indus River, the largest river in Pakistan; sometimes considered as the national river
- The Rhine, the largest river in Germany; sometimes considered as the national river
- The Buffalo, protected as America’s first national river since 1972
- The Guayas River, sourced from the peeks of the Andes, is the national river of Ecuador.
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or river:
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
—Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)
“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)