Rhine–Main–Danube Canal Rhine–Main–Danube Canal The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: "Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal"; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), in Bavaria, Germany, connects the Main and the Danube rivers across the European Watershed, running from Bamberg via Nuremberg to Kelheim. The canal connects the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, providing a navigable artery between the Rhine delta (at Rotterdam in the Netherlands), and the Danube Delta in south-eastern Romania and south-western Ukraine (or Constanța, through the Danube–Black Sea Canal). The present canal was completed in 1992 and is long. Projects for connecting the Danube and Rhine basins by canal
Danube Hills even exclusively restricted to this area which covered 376 km², which only covered the higher parts of the Vorderer Forest. It became major unit 405 in the natural region major unit group, the Upper Palatine-Bavarian Forest (40). English sources variously use the names Vorderer Forest, Danube Hills, Vorderer Wald, or Anterior Bavarian Forest. Regardless of this, the part designated as the "Falkensteiner Vorwald" in regional studies is also called the "Vorderer Bayerischer Wald" in German sources used for tourism purposes. However, the following description is based on the regional structure. The natural region of the Danube Hills is only 8