List of longest rivers of Ukraine


Ukraine has around 23,000 rivers, with most of the rivers draining into the Black Sea and Azov Sea and belonging to the larger Mediterranean basin. Those rivers mostly flow in a southerly direction, except for the Pripyat tributaries in Volhynia and Dniester tributaries in Prykarpattia. A few western Ukraine rivers drain to the north west through Poland to the Baltic Sea, as part of the Western Bug drainage basin. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include the Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Bug, and Siverskyi Donets. The longest river is the Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna. Two of the Danube's tributaries in Ukraine, the Prut and the Tysa, are longer than the main river within Ukraine.
In 2013, in accordance with the Water Framework Directive, the territory of Ukraine has been divided into according to major river basins, including the basins of the Vistula, Danube, Dniester, Southern Bug, Dnieper, Don, the rivers of the Black Sea littoral, the Sea of Azov littoral, and separately the rivers of Crimea. The biggest river basin by area is the Dnieper which is subdivided into the Pripyat basin, Desna basin, basin of Middle Dnieper, basin of Lower Dnieper. Beside Dnieper, basin of the Danube zoning is also subdivided into basin of Tysa, basin of Prut and Siret, and basin of the Lower Danube.

List of major rivers in Ukraine

Listed are rivers over long.
NameName
Length / km
Length / km
Drainage area / km2Basin
DnieperДніпро9812201Dnieper-Bug Estuary
Southern BugПівденний Буг806806Dnieper-Bug Estuary
DniesterДністер7051362Black Sea
Siverskyi DonetsСіверський Донець6721053Don
DesnaДесна5911130Dnieper
HorynГоринь577659Pripyat
InhuletsІнгулець549549Dnieper
PselПсел526717Dnieper
SluchСлуч451451Horyn
StyrСтир445494Pripyat
Western BugЗахідний Буг401831Narew
TeterivТетерів385385Dnieper
SulaСула365365Dnieper
InhulІнгул354354Southern Bug
VorsklaВорскла348464Dnieper
RosРось346346Dnieper
OrilОріль346346Dnieper
UdaiУдай327327Sula
VovchaВовча323323Samara
SamaraСамара320320Dnieper
KhorolХорол308308Psel
PrutПрут272967Danube
PripyatПрип'ять261761Dnieper
UzhУж256256Pripyat
ZbruchЗбруч244244Dniester
SeretСерет242242Dniester
StryiСтрий232232Dniester
SeimСейм222748Desna
AidarАйдар213264Siverskyi Donets
KalmiusКальміус209209Sea of Azov
SalhirСалгир204204Syvash
TysaТиса201966Danube
VysunВисунь201201Inhulets
OsterОстер199201Desna
LuhanЛугань198198Siverskyi Donets
MolochnaМолочна197197Sea of Azov
SnovСнов190253Desna
StokhidСтохід188188Pripyat
TurijaТурія184184Pripyat
OskilОскiл177472Siverskyi Donets
DanubeДунай1742900Black Sea
UbortУборть171292Pripyat
KrynkaКринка170180Mius River
SmotrychСмотрич168168Dniester
Hirsky TikychГірський Тікич167167Hnylyi Tikych
Velyka VysВелика Вись166166Synyukha
MurafaМурафа163163Dniester
IrpinІрпінь162162Dnieper
TiasmynТясмин160160Dnieper
BazavlukБазавлук157157Dnieper
Hnylyi TikychГнилий Тікич157157Synyukha
IkvaІква156156Styr
ChychykliaЧичиклія156156Southern Bug
TylihulТилігул154154Black Sea
DerkulДеркул153163Siverskyi Donets
Velykyi KuialnykВеликий Куяльник150150Black Sea
StvyhaСтвига66178Pripyat

;Black Sea basin
;Sea of Azov basin
;Baltic Sea basin
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Trivia

The most water in Ukraine is carried by Dnieper. Its annual drainage volume is. The only other river that has higher drainage volume is the Danube which running through Central Europe within Ukraine stretches only for. The average annual drainage of the Danube is around.
The deepest river of Ukraine is Dniester. In its mid stream between Pyzhniv village and Mohyliv-Podilsky through the Dniester canyon the river narrows to in width and deepens up to.
The biggest water amount among distributaries is carried by the Chilia branch.
The biggest river delta in Ukraine belongs to Dnieper and has area of, while the Danube Delta within Ukraine is only.