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:
““Five o’clock tea” is a phrase our “rude forefathers,” even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for “all the ills that flesh is heir to,” the glorious Magna Charta.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)