This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries or firths. In practice, and depending on the language, the term 'waterway' covers maritime or inland transport routes, as suggested by 'way'. Wherever a free-flowing river cannot bear load-carrying vessels, the correct term is 'watercourse', with no connotation of use for transport. To be of practical use, the list distinguishes international maritime waterways (including ship canals), international inland waterways, then inland waterways including canals.
Lists
International waterways
International maritime waterways
International inland waterways
- Danube
- Rhine
- Mekong (China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam)
- Colorado River (US, Mexico)
- Great Lakes Waterway (US, Canada)
Waterways by country
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
- Northwest Passage
- St. Lawrence Seaway
- Mackenzie River
- St. Marys River and canal of Ontario
- Detroit River
- St. Clair River
- Welland Canal
- Lake St. Clair
- Lake Superior
- Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay
- Great Bear Lake, including Port Radium
- Congo River - also on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt-Sudan
France
Germany
India
- Brahmaputra river - Sadiya to Dhubri stretch (891 km)
- Ganges river - Allahabad to Haldia stretch (1,620 km)
Netherlands
Pakistan
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Romania
Russia
- Volga-Baltic Waterway
- White Sea – Baltic Canal
- Amur River
- Caspian Sea
- Lake Baikal
- Dnieper River
- Don River
- Lena River
- Neva River
- Ob River
Serbia
Slovakia
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
- Mississippi River System
- Missouri River
- Ohio River
- St. Lawrence Seaway
- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
- Chesapeake Bay
- Columbia River
- Delaware River
- Detroit River
- Erie Canal
- Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
- Hudson River
- Lake Champlain
- Lake Michigan
- Lake Superior
- Sacramento River
- Savannah River
- St. Clair River
- St. Marys River and canal of Michigan
- Tennessee River
- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
- List of canals in the United States