Kura River

The Kura, also known in Georgian as Mtkvari, is a transboundary river that flows between the and mountains. It drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus and northern slopes of the Lesser Caucasus.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in South Caucasus
  • Also known as: “Afon Mtkvari”, “Corius”, “Cyrrhus”, “Fiume Kura”, “Fleuve Koura”, “Kora Nehri”, “Kour”, “Kur Çayı”, “Kür çayı”, “Kür Çayı”, “Kür Deresi”, “Kür Irmağı”, “Kür Nehri”, “Kura”, “Kurá”, “Kura Irmağı”, “Kurafloden”, “Kuruçay”, “Mt’kvari”, “Mtkavari”, “Mtkvarifloden”, “Río Kura”, “Río Mt’k’vari”, “Rio Mtkvari”, “Río Mtkvari”, “Rzeka Kura”, “Кюр”, “Мктварі”, “Мтквари”, “Мткварі”, “Мтквары”, “ტკვარი”, “Քուռ”, “Քուռ գետ”, “Քուր”, “מטקווארי”, “נהר הקורה”, “נהר כורש”, “נהר מטקווארי”, “الكر”, “رود کر”, “رود کورا”, “므트크바리”, “쿠라”, and “ムトゥクワリ川”

Kura River

Latitude
39.38367° or 39° 23′ 1″ north
Longitude
49.29909° or 49° 17′ 57″ east
Elevation
-29 metres (-95 feet)
Open location code
8HFF97MX+FJ
Geo­Names ID
305419
Wiki­data ID
Q156557
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kura River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Koera”
  • Arabic: “نهر الكر”
  • Armenian: “Կուր գետ”
  • Armenian: “Կուր”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Kura”
  • Avaric: “Кор”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kür”
  • Basque: “Kura”
  • Belarusian: “Кура”
  • Bengali: “কুরা”
  • Breton: “Koura”
  • Bulgarian: “Кура”
  • Catalan: “Kura”
  • Catalan: “Riu Kura”
  • Cebuano: “Kura Nehri”
  • Chinese: “库拉河”
  • Chinese: “庫拉河”
  • Croatian: “Kura”
  • Czech: “Kura”
  • Danish: “Mtkvari”
  • Dutch: “Koera”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кура”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كورا”
  • Esperanto: “Kura”
  • Estonian: “Kura jõgi”
  • Finnish: “Kura”
  • French: “Koura”
  • Georgian: “მტკვარი”
  • German: “Kura”
  • Greek: “Κύρος ποταμός”
  • Greek: “Κύρος”
  • Hebrew: “קורה”
  • Hungarian: “Kura”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Kura”
  • Ingush: “Кура”
  • Interlingue: “Kura”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Kura”
  • Italian: “Kura”
  • Japanese: “クラ川”
  • Kazakh: “Кура (өзен)”
  • Kazakh: “Кура”
  • Kirghiz: “Кура дарыясы”
  • Korean: “쿠라강”
  • Kurdish: “çemê Kura”
  • Latin: “Cyrus”
  • Latvian: “Kūra”
  • Lezghian: “Кура”
  • Lithuanian: “Kura”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kura”
  • Macedonian: “Кура”
  • Malay: “Sungai Kura”
  • Malayalam: “കുറ നദി”
  • Mazanderani: “کورا”
  • Mingrelian: “მტკვარი”
  • Mongolian: “Кура гол”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mtkwari”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kura”
  • Norwegian: “Kura”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kura (river)”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kura”
  • Ossetian: “Къуар”
  • Persian: “کورا”
  • Polish: “Kura”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Cura”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Kura”
  • Romanian: “Kura”
  • Romanian: “Râul Kura”
  • Russian: “Кура”
  • Rusyn: “Кура”
  • Scots: “Kura River”
  • Serbian: “Kura”
  • Serbian: “Кура”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kura”
  • Slovak: “Kura”
  • Slovenian: “Kura”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کر”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کورا”
  • Spanish: “Río Kurá”
  • Swedish: “Kura”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Kura”
  • Tatar: “Күрә”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำคูรา”
  • Turkish: “Kura Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Кура”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kura”
  • Uzbek: “Koʻra”
  • Uzbek: “Kura”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Kurá”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Kura”
  • Welsh: “Afon Kura”
  • Western Armenian: “Կուր”
  • Wu Chinese: “库拉河”
  • Yue Chinese: “庫拉河”

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