What countries does the Danube touch?

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Why: In the New Yorker short story "The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obrecht:

The tiger's route that night took him past the waterfront, where the remains of the merchants' port and the Jewish quarter spread into flattened piles of brick down the bank and into the waters of the Danube.

Trying to figure out what country this story is set in - the village, Galina, is fictional.

Answer: Crap, there are a bunch of them. It is the 2nd longest river in Europe after the Volga:

• Austria
• Bulgaria
  
• Croatia
• Germany
  
• Hungary
• Romania
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Ukraine
  

Here's a map!



Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: The Blue Danube was written by Strauss, who was Austrian.