What is "vistula"

The Vistula (Polish: Wisła) is the chief river of Poland.

Vistula or Wisła may also refer to:

• Wisła, a town in Silesian Voivodeship close to the source of the Vistula
• Vistula Spit, a stretch of land on the Baltic coast
• Vistula Lagoon, a fresh-water lagoon behind the Vistula Spit
• Wisła Kraków, a Polish football club from Kraków
• Wisła Płock, a Polish football club from Płock
• Operation Vistula, code name for a Polish army operation displacing Ukrainians and Ruthenians in Poland after World War II
• German Army Group Vistula, a German military unit in World War II
• Vistula, Michigan, a former town in what is now the city of Toledo, Ohio
• Vistula, Indiana, an unincorporated village northeast of Elkhart, Indiana
• Tatiana Wisla, a supporting character from the anime series Last Exile

The Vistula is the longest and largest river in Poland, at in length. The drainage basin area of the Vistula is , of which lies within Poland (splitting the country in half). The remainder is in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia.

The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and the Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wisełka). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (Zalew Wiślany) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta and several branches ( Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa).