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Oise
Boats on the Oise, Charles-François Daubigny, 1865.
Country	France, Belgium
Physical characteristics
Main source	Hainaut 309 m (1,014 ft)
River mouth	Seine 48°59′12″N 2°4′17″E / 48.98667°N 2.07139°E / 48.98667; 2.07139 (Seine-Oise)Coordinates: 48°59′12″N 2°4′17″E / 48.98667°N 2.07139°E / 48.98667; 2.07139 (Seine-Oise)
Length	341 km (212 mi)
Discharge	Average rate: 110 m3/s (3,900 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Progression	Seine→ English Channel
Basin size	17,000 km2 (6,600 sq mi)

map showing the Oise

The Oise (French pronunciation: ​[waz]) is a river of Belgium and France, flowing for 341 kilometres (212 mi)^[1] from its source in the Belgian province of Hainaut, south of Chimay. It crosses the border with France after about 20 kilometres (12 mi). It flows into the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a north-western suburb of Paris. Its main tributary is the Aisne. It gave its name to the French departments of Oise and Val-d'Oise.

Places along the river

In France, the Oise flows through the following départements and towns:

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  Aisne: Hirson, Guise, Chauny
  


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  Oise (named after the river): Noyon, Compiègne, Creil
  


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  Val-d'Oise (named after the river): Auvers-sur-Oise, Pontoise, Cergy, Jouy-le-Moutier
  


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  Yvelines: Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
  

Navigation

Over the past few centuries, the Oise has played an important role as an inland shipping waterway connecting the Seine (and thus Paris) with the coastal regions of northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. With the projected construction of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal, a high-capacity water transport system currently in development, the Oise will be linked at Janville, north of Compiègne, with the high-capacity Canal Dunkerque-Escaut, east of Arleux. The Seine-Nord Europe Canal will replace the old Canal de Saint-Quentin and the current Canal du Nord, the capacity of which is far below standard. When the new Seine-Nord connection is complete, it will allow large vessels to transport goods from the Seine, and thus Paris and its surrounding area, to the ports of Dunkerque, Antwerp and Rotterdam.

Part of the overall project consists in upgrading the river Oise itself between Creil and Compiègne, a project called MAGEO (Mise au gabarit européen de l'Oise) that was put out to public consultation in 2013. Some bends need to be eased and bridges raised to provide the characteristics of the European Class Vb.^[2]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oise-upgrading-location.jpg

Tributaries

The river at Hirson

Tributaries include

Right bank

• Noirieu


• Divette


• Mas or Matz


• Aronde


• Brèche


• Thérain

Left bank

• Gland


• Thon


• Serre


• Ailette


• Ru de Servais


• Aisne


• Automne


• Nonette


• Thève

See also

• Canal latéral à l'Oise


• List of rivers of France


• List of canals in France

References

External links

• 
  River Oise and Canal latéral à l'Oise maps and information, on places, ports and moorings on the canal, by the author of Inland Waterways of France, Imray

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  Navigation details for 80 French rivers and canals (French waterways website section)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oise River.