List of longest rivers of Ukraine


This is a list of the major rivers that flow through Ukraine.
Ukraine has around 23,000 rivers. Most of the rivers of Ukraine drain into the Black Sea and Azov Sea belonging to the bigger Mediterranean basin. Those rivers mostly flow in southern direction, except for some Pripyat tributaries in Volhynia and Dniester tributaries in Prykarpattia. A small portion of rivers is part of Western Bug drainage basin located in Western Ukraine near the border with Poland. Those rivers usually have northern direction and are part of bigger Baltic basin. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include: Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Buh, and Siversky Donets. The longest river is Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna. Two of the Danube's tributaries in Ukraine Prut and Tysa are longer than the main river within Ukraine.
satellite image of the Dnieper and its tributaries.
passes through many cities — notably Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. In Kiev, more than seven bridges cross the river.
flowing through Ukraine.
river, Donetsk
The territory of Ukraine is conditionally divided into 9 hydrographic zone according to major river basins including basins of rivers Wisla, Danube, Dniester, Southern Bug, Dnieper, Don, rivers of Black Sea littoral, Sea of Azov littoral, and separately rivers of Crimea. The biggest river basin by area is Dnieper which is subdivided into Prypiat 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. Length is in kilometers.
NameName
Length
Length
Drainage areaBasin
DnieperДніпро9812201Dnieper-Bug Estuary
Southern BugПівденний Буг806806Dnieper-Bug Estuary
DniesterДністер7051362Black Sea
Siversky DonetsСіверський Донець6721053Don
DesnaДесна5911130Dnieper
HorynГоринь577659Prypiat
InhuletsІнгулець549549Dnieper
PselПсел526717Dnieper
SluchСлуч451451Horyn
StyrСтир445494Prypiat
Western BugЗахідний Буг401831Narew
TeterivТетерів385385Dnieper
SulaСула365365Dnieper
InhulІнгул354354Southern Bug
VorsklaВорскла348464Dnieper
RosРось346346Dnieper
OrilОріль346346Dnieper
UdaiУдай327327Sula
VovchaВовча323323Samara
SamaraСамара320320Dnieper
KhorolХорол308308Psel
PrutПрут272967Danube
PrypiatПрип'ять261761Dnieper
UzhУж256256Prypiat
ZbruchЗбруч244244Dniester
SeretСерет242242Dniester
StryiСтрий232232Dniester
SeimСейм222748Desna
AidarАйдар213264Siversky Donets
KalmiusКальміус209209Sea of Azov
SalhirСалгир204204Syvash
TysaТиса201966Danube
VysunВисунь201201Inhulets
OsterОстер199201Desna
LuhanЛугань198198Siversky Donets
MolochnaМолочна197197Sea of Azov
SnovСнов190253Desna
StokhidСтохід188188Prypiat
TurijaТурія184184Prypiat
OskilОскiл177472Siversky Donets
DanubeДунай1742900Black Sea
UbortУборть171292Prypiat
KrynkaКринка170180Mius River
SmotrychСмотрич168168Dniester
Hirsky TikychГірський Тікич167167Hnylyi Tikych
Velyka VysВелика Вись166166Synyukha
MurafaМурафа163163Dniester
IrpinІрпінь162162Dnieper
TiasmynТясмин160160Dnieper
BazavlukБазавлук157157Dnieper
Hnylyi TikychГнилий Тікич157157Synyukha
IkvaІква156156Styr
ChychykliaЧичиклія156156Southern Bug
TylihulТилігул154154Black Sea
DerkulДеркул153163Siversky Donets
StvyhaСтвига66178Prypiat
Velykyi KuyalnikВеликий Куяльник150150Black Sea

;Black Sea basin
;Sea of Azov basin
;Baltic Sea basin
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 the 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.