Váh
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| Váh | |
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| Hungarian: Vág, German: Waag, Polish: Wag | |
 The Váh near Piešťany.
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| Country | Slovakia |
| Length | 403 km (250 mi) |
| Watershed | 10,640 km² (4,108 mi²) |
| Discharge | mouth |
| - average | 196 m³/s (6,922 ft³/s) |
| - maximum | 1,825 m³/s (64,449 ft³/s) 1825 |
| - minimum | 22.3 m³/s (788 ft³/s) 22.3 |
| Source | Čierny Váh |
| - location | Kráľova hoľa, Low Tatras |
| Mouth | Danube River |
| - location | Komárno |
| - elevation | 106.5 m (349 ft) |
 The current and watershed of the Váh from its Černý Váh (Southern) and Biely Váh (Northern) sources until it enters the Danube (magenta)
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The Váh (Hungarian: Vág; German: Waag; Polish: Wag) is the most important river in Slovakia. A left tributary of the Danube river, the Váh is the longest river in Slovakia with a length of 403 km. Its two sources, the Biely Váh (White Váh) and the Čierny Váh (Black Váh), are located in the High and Low Tatra Mountains, respectively, and it flows over northern and western Slovakia and finally pours into the Danube near Komárno. The left tributaries are Demänovka, Revúca, Ľubochnianka, Turiec, Rajčanka and Nitra rivers and the right tributaries are Belá, Orava, Varínka, Kysuca, Biela voda, Vlára, Dubová, Dudváh and Malý Dunaj rivers.
It includes canals, artificial dams (Čierny Váh, Liptovská Mara, Bešeňová, Krpeľany, Žilina, Hričov, Nosice, Sĺňava, Madunice, Kráľová and Selice) and 16 hydropower stations, whose construction started in the 1930s and increased after World War II. The main Slovak limited-access motorway is situated along the Váh (Bratislava - Trenčín - Považská Bystrica - Žilina and Ružomberok - Poprad), as well as the main railway Bratislava - Žilina - Košice.
Slovak towns on the river include Liptovský Hrádok, Liptovský Mikuláš,Ružomberok, Vrútky, Žilina, Bytča, Považská Bystrica, Púchov, Ilava, Dubnica nad Váhom, Nemšová, Trenčín, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Piešťany, Hlohovec, Sereď, Šaľa, Kolárovo and Komárno.
