{"id":65,"date":"2023-10-09T05:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/uncategorized\/rhine-river\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T06:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T01:05:42","slug":"rhine-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/upsc\/rhine-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhine River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Rhine River is the<strong>&nbsp;second-longest river<\/strong>&nbsp;in Central and&nbsp;<strong>Western Europe after the Danube<\/strong>&nbsp;and originates in the&nbsp;<strong>Swiss Alps (in Switzerland).<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Rhine river is called by different names depending on the country it flows through.<strong> It is called Rhein in Germany; Rhine in France and Rijn in the Netherlands.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The<strong> river begins in the Swiss canton of Graub\u00fcnden in the southeastern Swiss Alps.<\/strong> It forms part of the <strong>Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German borders. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border, after which it flows in a mostly northerly direction through the German Rhineland. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally in Germany the Rhine turns into a predominantly westerly direction and flows into the Netherlands where it eventually <strong>empties into the North Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Rhine flows through six countries &#8211;<strong>Switzerland, Principality of Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands<\/strong>&nbsp;before flowing into the&nbsp;<strong>North Sea at Rotterdam.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Rhine and the Danube comprised much of the Roman Empire&#8217;s northern inland boundary, and the Rhine has been a vital navigable waterway bringing trade and goods deep inland since those days. The various castles and defenses built along it attest to its prominence as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Among the largest and most important cities on the Rhine are Cologne, Rotterdam, D\u00fcsseldorf, Duisburg, Strasbourg, Nijmegen, and Basel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rhein-River.png\" alt=\"Rhein River\" class=\"wp-image-23748\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rhine-River.jpg\" alt=\"Rhine River\" class=\"wp-image-23744\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-kb-palette-3-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-kb-palette-3-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/author\/lotusarise469gmail-com\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":37,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":37,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}