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List of rivers of Estonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ1328197 ↗
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Rivers of Estonia are short and mostly have a small discharge. Only 10 rivers are longer than 100 km. The largest river is the Narva (length 77 km) on the Estonian–Russian border, whose average discharge is larger than that of all other Estonian rivers combined.

Longest rivers

List of rivers

List is incomplete.

References

Estonica: The hydrographic network

Arold, Ivar (2005). Eesti maastikud (in Estonian). Tartu: Tartu University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9949-11-028-9.

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