Confluence of the Narew and the Vistula at Modlin
|Origin||Barania Góra, Silesian Beskids| |Mouth||Gdańsk Bay,
Baltic Sea| |Basin countries||Poland, Ukraine, Belarus,
Slovakia| |Length||1,047 km (651 mi)| |Source elevation||1,106 m
(3,629 ft)| |Avg. discharge||1,080 m³/s (at mouth)| |Basin
area||194,424 km²; (75,067 mi²)| The Vistula (pron.: //; Polish:
Wisła [ˈvʲiswa], German: Weichsel) is the longest river in
Poland, at 1,047 km (651 miles) in length. The watershed area of
the Vistula is 194,424 km2 (75,068 sq mi), of which 168,699 km2
(65,135 sq mi) lies within Poland (splitting the country in
half). The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland,
1,220 meters (4,000 ft) above sea level in the Silesian Beskids
(western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the
White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and the Black Little
Vistula (Czarna Wisełka). It then continues to flow over the
vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along
its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw