[2] The Dnieper Basin lies within Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
In the south of the catchment area, the main river Dnieper runs into a peak west of the city of Kherson and runs across the Dnieper–Bug estuary, where the stream flows into the Black Sea.
[3] In the southwest, the catchment area of the Dnieper borders on the Southern Bug Basin,[4] which attaches laterally to the catchment area of the Dnieper.
The Dnieper has many tributaries (up to 32,000) with 89 being rivers with a length of at least 100 kilometres (62 mi).
[2] The main ones are, from its source to its mouth, with left (L) or right (R) bank indicated: The most prominent rivers in the catchment area are Dnieper with a length of 2,201 kilometres (1,368 mi) and Desna, with a length of 1,130 kilometres (700 mi).