National River

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:

    “All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
    —Carson McCullers (1917–1967)

    “I counted two and seventy stenches,
    All well defined and several stinks!
    Ye Nymphs that reign o’er sewers and sinks,
    The river Rhine, it is well known,
    Doth wash your city of Cologne;
    But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine
    Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)