Sava River
| Sava | |
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| Countries | Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia |
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| Tributaries | |
| - left | Savinja, Sutla, Krapina, Lonja, Ilova-Trebež, Orljava, Bosut |
| - right | Ljubljanica, Krka, Kupa, Una, Vrbas, Ukrina, Bosna, Tinja, Drina, Kolubara |
| Cities | Kranj, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sisak, Slavonski Brod, Brčko, Sremska Mitrovica, Šabac, Obrenovac, Belgrade |
| Source | Zelenci |
| - location | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia |
| - elevation | 833 m (2,733 ft) |
| - coordinates | 46°29′31″N 13°44′16″E / 46.49194°N 13.73778°E |
| Mouth | Danube |
| - location | Belgrade, Serbia |
| - elevation | 68 m (223 ft) |
| - coordinates | 44°49′27″N 20°26′38″E / 44.82417°N 20.44389°ECoordinates: 44°49′27″N 20°26′38″E / 44.82417°N 20.44389°E |
| Length | 990 km (615 mi) a |
| Basin | 97,713.2 km2 (37,727 sq mi) |
| Discharge | for the river mouth |
| - average | 1,609 m3/s (56,821 cu ft/s) |
 Map of the Sava watershed
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| a Including 45 km (28 mi) Sava Dolinka headwater | |
| The most populous urban areas along the Sava River | ||||||||||
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Rank | City | Country | Urban population | Municipal population | |||||
| 1 | Belgrade | Serbia | 1,233,350 | 1,659,440 | ||||||
| 2 | Zagreb | Croatia | 688,163 | 1,110,517 | ||||||
| 3 | Ljubljana | Slovenia | 258,873 | 265,881 | ||||||
| 4 | Slavonski Brod | Croatia | 53,473 | 59,507 | ||||||
| 5 | Šabac | Serbia | 52,822 | 115,347 | ||||||
| 6 | Brčko | Bosnia-Herzegovina | 40,000 | 85,000 | ||||||
| 7 | Sremska Mitrovica | Serbia | 37,586 | 79,773 | ||||||
| 8 | Kranj | Slovenia | 35,587 | 51,225 | ||||||
| 9 | Sisak | Croatia | 33,322 | 47,768 | ||||||
| 10 | Obrenovac | Serbia | 24,568 | 71,419 | ||||||
| Sources: Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia 2011 Census;Croatian Bureau of Statistics, 2011 Census;Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 2002 Census;Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||||||||||
The Sava (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈsàːʋa],Serbo-Croatian: [sǎːʋa],Serbian Cyrillic: Сава) is a river in Central Europe, a right side tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, along the northern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina, through Serbia, discharging into the Danube in Belgrade. Its central part is a natural border of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. The Sava forms the northern border of the Balkan Peninsula, and southern edge of the Pannonian Plain.
The Sava is 990 kilometres (615 miles) long, including the 45-kilometre (28 mi) Sava Dolinka headwater rising in Zelenci, Slovenia. It is the greatest tributary of the Danube by volume of water, and second-largest after Tisza in terms of catchment area (97,713 square kilometres (37,727 square miles)) and length. It drains a significant portion of the Dinaric Alps region, through the major tributaries of Drina, Bosna, Kupa, Una, Vrbas, Lonja, Kolubara, Bosut and Krka. The Sava is one of the longest rivers in Europe and among a handful of European rivers of that length that do not drain directly into a sea.
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