Lower Rhine
| Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) | |
|---|---|
Lower Rhine at Düsseldorf | |
Sections of the Rhine: Lower Rhine | |
| Location | |
| Country | Germany |
| States | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Districts | Bonn, Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Kleve, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mettmann, Rhein-Erft, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Rhein-Lahn, Rhein-Sieg, Wesel |
| Country | The Netherlands |
| Provinces | Gelderland, South Holland, Utrecht |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Between Bad Godesberg and Bonn-Oberkassel, continuation of the Middle Rhine |
| • coordinates | 50°42′20″N 7°9′46.2″E / 50.70556°N 7.162833°E |
| • elevation | 61 m |
| Mouth | |
• location | Hook of Holland, North Sea |
• coordinates | 51°58′53.3″N 4°4′50.99″E / 51.981472°N 4.0808306°E |
• elevation | 0 m |
| Length | 373 km (232 mi), 205.5 km (127.7 mi) without the Nederrijn |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Erft, Kalflack, Meuse |
| • right | Düssel, Emscher, Lippe, Ruhr, Sieg, Wupper |
Lower Rhine (German: Niederrhein, pronounced [ˈniːdɐˌʁaɪn] ⓘ; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bonn in Germany and the North Sea at Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, including the Nederrijn (English: Nether Rhine) within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta; alternatively, Lower Rhine may also refer to just the part upstream of Pannerdens Kop (km 660–865.5), excluding the Nederrijn.
It is the last of the four sections of the Rhine between Lake Constance and the North Sea (the others being the High Rhine, Upper Rhine and Middle Rhine).