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The Rhône (; Walliser German : " Rotten " ) is one of the major rivers of Europe , rising in the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps at the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais , passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern ___MASK38___ . At Arles , near its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea , the river divides into two branches , known as the Great Rhône ( French : " Le Grand Rhône ") and the Little Rhône (" Le Petit Rhône "). The resulting delta constitutes the Camargue region . Lake Neuchâtel is a lake primarily in Romandy , ___MASK7___ ( French - speaking ___MASK7___ ). The lake lies mainly in the canton of Neuchâtel , but is also shared by the cantons of Vaud , of Fribourg , and of Bern . With a surface of , it is the largest lake entirely in ___MASK7___ and the 59th largest lake in Europe . Lake Neuchâtel lies approximately at coordinates . It is long and no more than wide . Its surface is above sea level , with a maximum depth of . The total water volume is . The lake ' s drainage area is approximately and its culminating point is Le Chasseron at . The lake receives the Orbe River ( called " Thielle or Thièle " from the city of Orbe onwards ), the Arnon , the Areuse ( which traverses the Val de Travers ), Seyon ( flowing through the Val de Ruz ), the " canal de la Sauge " ( which drains Lake Murten and receives the Broye River ), and the Mentue ( at Yvonand ). The " canal of Thielle " ( or " Zihlkanal " in German ) drains the lake into Lake Biel - Bienne and is part of regulation system for the lakes and the rivers of the Seeland region . Lake Neuchâtel was the home of the now extinct species of deepwater trout " Salvelinus neocomensis ". A mountain pass is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge . Since many of the ___MASK72___ ' s mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel , passes have been important since before recorded history , and have played a key role in trade , war , and migration . At lower elevations it may be called a hill pass . The highest pass is Mana Pass , located in the Himalayas on the border between India and ___MASK51___ . Neuchâtel ; (" new " and " chatel " " castle " ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel . Vue des Alpes ( el . 1282 m . ) is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Neuchâtel . It connects La Chaux - de - Fonds and Neuchâtel . The pass road has a maximum grade of 10 percent . A road tunnel for the motorway has greatly reduced the traffic over the pass . As implied by its name , the pass provides a panoramic view of the Swiss Alps on a clear day . The Rhine (, , ) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps , forms part of the Swiss - Austrian , Swiss - ___MASK5___ , Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border , then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the ___MASK6___ . The largest city on the river Rhine is Cologne , Germany , with a population of more than 1 , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest river in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about . Mana Pass ( el . ), alternatively Mna La , Chirbitya , Chirbitya - la , or Dungri La , is a mountain pass in the Himalayas on the border between ___MASK98___ and ___MASK57___ . It appears to now be the highest vehicle - accessible pass in the world , containing a road constructed in the 2005 - 2010 period for the Indian military by the Border Roads Organisation and visible on 2011 imagery on visual globe systems such as Google Earth . The well - graded gravel - dirt road is higher on the Indian side than the new road on the Tibetan side , and rises to on the Indian side of the border , 250m west of the low point of the Mana Pass . The Jura Mountains are a sub - alpine mountain range located north of the Western Alps , mainly following the course of the ___MASK38___  ___MASK7___ border . The Jura separates the Rhine and Rhône basins , forming part of the watershed of each . ___MASK51___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK51___ ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of ___MASK51___ , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and ___MASK23___ ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . ___MASK51___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower .