Drava River

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Drava or Drave (German: Drau, Slovenian, Croatian and Italian: Drava, Hungarian: Dráva) is a river in Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It originates in the South Tirol in Italy and flows east through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria, into Slovenia (145 km), and then southeast through Croatia (forming most of the border between Croatia and Hungary), and joins the Danube near Osijek. It has a length of 750 km.

Drava's main tributaries are: