Songwe River

The Songwe River is a river that forms the international boundary between and , . The songwe region in Tanzania is named after the river.
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Songwe River

Latitude
-9.71667° or 9° 43′ south
Longitude
33.93333° or 33° 56′ east
Elevation
479 metres (1,572 feet)
Open location code
6G2M7WMM+88
Geo­Names ID
149769
Wiki­data ID
Q14934686
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Songwe River” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Songwe River (suba, lat -9,72, long 33,93)
  • Cebuano: Songwe River
  • Croatian: Songwe (rijeka)
  • Croatian: Songwe
  • French: Songwe
  • Fulah: Fuuɗol Songwe
  • German: Songwe
  • Hausa: Kogin Songwe
  • Irish: Abhainn Songwe
  • Kinyarwanda: Umugezi wa Songwe
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Songwe
  • Norwegian: Songwe
  • Nyanja: Mtsinje wa Songwe
  • Polish: Songwe (rzeka)
  • Polish: Songwe
  • Portuguese: Rio Songwe
  • Russian: Сонгве
  • Swahili: Songwe
  • Swedish: Songwe
  • Welsh: Afon Songwe

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Songwe River”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.