Neva
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Summary
Neva is a river[1]. Neva ranks in the top 1% of river entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,136 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Leningrad Oblast[3], Saint Petersburg[4]
- Country: Russia[5]
- Basin country: Russia[6]
- Part of: Unified Deep Water System of European Russia[7]
- Commons category: Neva River[8]
- Mouth of the watercourse: Neva Bay[9]
- Lake on watercourse: Lake Ladoga[10]
- Origin of the watercourse: Lake Ladoga[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Neva River[12]
- Tributary: Mga[13], Tosna[14], Izhora[15], Slavyanka[16], Okhta[17], Moyka River[18], Dubrovka[19], Duderhof Channel[20], Kronverksky Strait[21], Moyka[22], Murzinka[23], Svyatka[24], Spartak[25], Chyornaya Rechka[26]
- Category for the water basin: Category:Neva basin[27]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[28], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[31], Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[32], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[33], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[34], New International Encyclopedia[35], The New Student's Reference Work[36]
- Native label: Нева[37]
- Different from: Neva[38]
- Length: 74 km[39], 70 verst[40]
- Watershed area: 281,000 km²[41]
- Discharge: 2500 cubic metre per second[42]
- Slope: 0.058[43]
- Drainage basin: Neva basin[44]
- Distributary: Obvodny Canal[45], Great Nevka[46], Kronverksky Strait[47], Fontanka[48], Malaya Neva[49], Ekateringofka[50]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Neva include S-125[51], a missile model[52], founded in 1956[53]; Battle of the Neva[54], a battle[55], in Russia[56]; M11 Neva Federal Highway[57], a controlled-access highway[58], in Russia[59]; and Nevskiye novosti[60], a news agency[61], in Russia[62], founded in 2013[63], headquartered in Saint Petersburg[64].
Why It Matters
Neva has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] Neva is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]
Entities named for Neva include S-125[51], a missile model[52], founded in 1956[53]; Battle of the Neva[54], a battle[55], in Russia[56]; M11 Neva Federal Highway[57], a controlled-access highway[58], in Russia[59]; and Nevskiye novosti[60], a news agency[61], in Russia[62], founded in 2013[63], headquartered in Saint Petersburg[64].