The Nister, also called the Great Nister (german: Große Nister) to distinguish it from its tributary, the ''Black Nister'', is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
,
Germany
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.
The Nister is a right tributary of the
Sieg. It is long. Its source is in the
Westerwald hills, near
Willingen. It flows south of
Bad Marienberg
Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and also the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality.
Geography
The community lies in the Westerwald between ...
and north of
Hachenburg
Hachenburg is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
The town lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen, roughly 10 km west of Bad Marienberg on the river Nister. Hachenburg is the administrative s ...
. Near
Wissen the Nister flows into the Sieg.
It flows through the rocky upland region known as
Kroppach Switzerland
Kroppach Switzerland (german: Kroppacher Schweiz) is a region in the collective municipalities of Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg, Hachenburg, Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld and Verbandsgemeinde Wissen, Wissen in the Rhineland-Palatinate part of the Weste ...
.
See also
*
List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
A list of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany:
A
* Aar
* Adenauer Bach
*Ahr
* Alf
* Alfbach
*Appelbach
*Asdorf
* Aubach
B
* Birzenbach
*Blattbach
* Breitenbach
* Brexbach
* Brohlbach, tributary of the Moselle
* Brohlbach, tributary of the R ...
Rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate
Rivers of the Westerwald
Rivers of Germany
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