Vistula
tʃʊ noun
a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
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| 1. | Polish name: Wisla, German name: Weichsel a river in central and N Poland, rising in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing generally north and northwest past Warsaw and Torun, then northeast to enter the Baltic via an extensive delta region. Length: 1090 km (677 miles) |
| 2. | Vistula Lagoon German name: Frisches Haff, Polish name: Wislany Zalew, Russian name: Vislinsky Zaliv a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia |
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