Sections
The course of the Rhine can be divided into:
- the headwaters, until their confluence near Tamins-Reichenau
- the Alpine Rhine, from Tamins-Reichenau to Lake Constance
- Lake Constance itself
- the High Rhine, from Lake Constance to Basel
- the Upper Rhine, from Basel to Bingen am Rhein
- the Middle Rhine, from Bingen am Rhein to Bonn
- the Lower Rhine, from Bonn to the North Sea
- the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta
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