Kura River
The Kura, also known in Georgian as Mtkvari, is an east-flowing transboundary river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in South Caucasus
- Also known as: “Kora Nehri”, “Kur Çayı”, “Kür Deresi”, “Kura”, “Kura Nehri”, “Kuruçay”, and “Mtkvari”
Kura River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kura River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Koera”
- Arabic: “الكر”
- Arabic: “نهر الكر”
- Arabic: “نهر كورا”
- Armenian: “Կուր գետ”
- Armenian: “Կուր”
- Armenian: “Քուռ գետ”
- Armenian: “Քուռ”
- Armenian: “Քուր”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kura”
- Avaric: “Кор”
- Azerbaijani: “Kür çayi”
- Azerbaijani: “Kür çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Kür”
- Basque: “Kura”
- Basque: “Mtkvari”
- Belarusian: “Кура”
- Belarusian: “Мтквары”
- Bengali: “কুরা”
- Breton: “Koura”
- Bulgarian: “Кура”
- Bulgarian: “Мтквари”
- Catalan: “Cyrus”
- Catalan: “Kür”
- Catalan: “Kura”
- Catalan: “Mtkvari”
- Catalan: “Riu Kura”
- Cebuano: “Kura Nehri”
- Chinese: “库拉河”
- Chinese: “庫拉河”
- Croatian: “Kura”
- Czech: “Kura”
- Czech: “Mtkvari”
- Danish: “Kura”
- Danish: “Mtkvari”
- Dutch: “Koera”
- Dutch: “Kura”
- Dutch: “Mtkvari”
- Eastern Mari: “Кура”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كورا”
- Esperanto: “Kura”
- Esperanto: “Mtkvari”
- Estonian: “Kura jõgi”
- Estonian: “Kura”
- Finnish: “Kura”
- Finnish: “Mtkvari”
- French: “Fleuve Koura”
- French: “Kour”
- French: “Koura”
- French: “Kura”
- French: “Mt’kvari”
- French: “Mtkvari”
- French: “მტკვარი”
- Georgian: “მტკვარი”
- German: “Kura”
- Greek: “Κύρος ποταμός”
- Greek: “Κύρος”
- Hebrew: “מטקווארי”
- Hebrew: “נהר הקורה”
- Hebrew: “נהר כורש”
- Hebrew: “נהר מטקווארי”
- Hebrew: “קורה”
- Hungarian: “Kura”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kura”
- Ingush: “Кура”
- Interlingue: “Kura”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kura”
- Italian: “Fiume Kura”
- Italian: “Kura”
- Italian: “Mtkvari”
- Japanese: “クラ川”
- Japanese: “ムトゥクワリ川”
- Kirghiz: “Кура дарыясы”
- Korean: “므트크바리”
- Korean: “쿠라”
- Korean: “쿠라강”
- Kurdish: “çemê Kura”
- Latin: “Corius”
- Latin: “Cyrrhus”
- Latin: “Cyrus”
- Latvian: “Kūra”
- Lezghian: “Кура”
- Lithuanian: “Kura”
- Luxembourgish: “Kura”
- Luxembourgish: “Mtkvari”
- Macedonian: “Кура”
- Malay: “Sungai Kura”
- Malayalam: “കുറ നദി”
- Mazanderani: “کورا”
- Mingrelian: “მტკვარი”
- Mingrelian: “ტკვარი”
- Mongolian: “Кура гол”
- Northern Frisian: “Mtkwari”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kür”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mtkvari”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “მტკვარი”
- Norwegian: “Kura”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kura (river)”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Kura”
- Ossetian: “Къуар”
- Persian: “رود کر”
- Persian: “رود کورا”
- Persian: “کورا”
- Polish: “Kura”
- Polish: “Mtkvari”
- Polish: “Rzeka Kura”
- Portuguese: “Kura”
- Portuguese: “Mtkvari”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cura”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kura”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mtkvari”
- Romanian: “Kura”
- Romanian: “Râul Kura”
- Russian: “Кура”
- Russian: “Кюр”
- Russian: “Мтквари”
- Rusyn: “Кура”
- Scots: “Kura River”
- Serbian: “Kura”
- Serbian: “Кура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kura”
- Slovak: “Kura”
- Slovenian: “Kura”
- South Azerbaijani: “کر”
- South Azerbaijani: “کورا”
- Spanish: “Kura”
- Spanish: “Kurá”
- Spanish: “Mtkavari”
- Spanish: “Mtkvari”
- Spanish: “Rio Kura”
- Spanish: “Río Kura”
- Spanish: “Río Kurá”
- Spanish: “Río Mt’k’vari”
- Spanish: “Rio Mtkvari”
- Spanish: “Río Mtkvari”
- Swedish: “Kura Nehri”
- Swedish: “Kura”
- Swedish: “Kurafloden”
- Swedish: “Mtkvari”
- Swedish: “Mtkvarifloden”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Kura”
- Tatar: “Күрә”
- Turkish: “Kür Çayı”
- Turkish: “Kür Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Kür Nehri”
- Turkish: “Kura Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Kura Nehri”
- Turkish: “Kura River”
- Turkish: “Kura”
- Ukrainian: “Кура”
- Ukrainian: “Мктварі”
- Ukrainian: “Мткварі”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kura”
- Uzbek: “Koʻra”
- Venetian: “Fiume Kurá”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Kura”
- Welsh: “Afon Kura”
- Welsh: “Afon Mtkvari”
- Western Armenian: “Կուր”
- Wu Chinese: “库拉河”
- Yue Chinese: “庫拉河”
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