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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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