<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Map of the Rhine basin </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Wikimedia Commons: Rhine </Td> </Tr> <P> The Rhine (Latin: Rhenus, Romansh: Rein, German: Rhein, French: le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Dutch: Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss - Liechtenstein, Swiss - Austrian, Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea . </P> <P> The largest city on the Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people . It is the second - longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1,230 km (760 mi), with an average discharge of about 2,900 m / s (100,000 cu ft / s). </P>

Where does the rhine river begin and end
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