List of border rivers

Mekong on the border between Laos and Thailand ( first Thai-Lao friendship bridge )

This list shows rivers that in parts form a political international border.

Political boundaries are usually in the middle of the river. Border controls are usually carried out on one of the banks; People on the water can be checked by the border guards in the river.

List (selection)

Surname	States	Remarks
Amazon	Brazil Colombia Peru	Brazil – Peru: approx. 10 kilometers near Benjamin Constant Colombia – Peru: approx. 60 kilometers between San Juan de Atacuari and Leticia
Colorado River	United States Mexico	approx. 1 kilometer at Los Algodones
Danube	→ Danube countries # List of the Danube bordering countries and their banks
Inn	Switzerland Austria Germany	( → river course )
Mekong	People's Republic of China Myanmar Laos Thailand Cambodia Vietnam	Cambodia – Laos: approx. 40 kilometers between Don Kamao and Don Sadam Thailand – Laos: approx. 1300 kilometers between Kaeng Tana National Park and the Golden Triangle Laos – Myanmar: approx. 160 kilometers Myanmar – People's Republic of China: approx. 140 kilometers
Rhine	Germany Switzerland France Liechtenstein Austria Netherlands	France – Germany: 182 kilometers Switzerland – Liechtenstein: approx. 41 kilometers Germany – Switzerland: Seerhein and Untersee as well as Upper Rhine Switzerland-Austria approx. 20 kilometers Netherlands-Germany: approx. 2 kilometers
Rhone	Switzerland France	approx. 9 kilometers ( Pougny - Les Baraques )

Special features in some countries

Border between Bangladesh and India / Myanmar

Bangladesh has 58 major rivers that are shared with India or Myanmar . International treaties in this regard led to complex diplomatic disputes.

Border between Germany and Luxembourg

In the joint German-Luxembourg territory , the river system Our - Sauer - Mosel forms the border between Germany and Luxembourg (127.979 km of the 135 km border are flowing waters).

Other transboundary rivers

Furthermore, there are rivers that do not form part of an international political border (lengthways), but run straight across a border, for example

• Brahmaputra (Bangladesh - People's Republic of China [1] ) and his arm Kameng (People's Republic of China - Bhutan)
• Danube (Hungary – Croatia)
• Drina (Bosnia-Serbia)
• Nile (Egypt – Sudan).

See also

• Limit # rivers
• Category: Historical border river
• List of lists of rivers
• Category: International Bridge

literature

• Georges Kaeckenbeeck : International Rivers , HM Stationery Office, London, 1920, 72 pages, on behalf of the British Foreign Office

Web links

Commons : International rivers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://laos-reiseinfos.de/
2. ↑ https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.338037&mlon=4.825657&zoom=12#map=14/46.1666/5.9898
3. ↑ cf. Border between France and Switzerland
4. ^ Maxwell, Daniel M: Exchanging Power: Prospects of Nepal-India Cooperation for Hydropower Development, in: Keck Journal of Foreign Affairs, Forthcoming 2012; ssrn = 2193796
5. ↑ Wadi Halfa
6. ↑ https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11889/