FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
The river Dniestr (in Polish and Russian; Nistru in Romanian; Дністер, Dnister in Ukrainian; Tyras in Latin; also known as Dniester) is a river in Eastern Europe. It rises in Ukraine, near the border with Poland, and flows toward the Black Sea. For a short while it marks the border of Ukraine and Moldova, after this on the east bank is the breakaway region of Transnistria. It leaves this region and becomes the international border again, then flows through Ukraine to the Black Sea.
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Dnister expedition of Lion Society (http://geocities.com/valentyn_ua/ZweteSeite)
To the north from the Codru Hills the landscape is characterized by the level plain of the Balti Plain with altitudes of 150-200 m.
The Nistru rises in Ukraine and forms the border between Ukraine and Moldova in parts of the north, northeast and southeast before flowing back into Ukraine, where it continues for some 20 km before reaching the Black Sea near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy (Odessa Oblast).
Lush meadows and reed growths occur in the floodlands of the Nistru and the Prut rivers, while salt-marsh grasslands prosper in the saline valleys of the Cogâlnic, Ialpug, Botna, and lower Prut.
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