Omo River
The Omo River in southern Ethiopia is the largest Ethiopian river outside the Nile Basin. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia, and it empties into Lake Turkana on the border with Kenya.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 361 metres (1,184 feet)
- Description: river in Ethiopia
- Also known as“Omo Bottego”“Omo Wenz”“Umaa River”
Omo River
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Latitude
4.44468° or 4° 26′ 41″ north
Longitude
35.9866° or 35° 59′ 12″ east
Open location code
6GPQCXVP+VJ
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wolaytta—“Omo River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Omorivier”
- Amharic: “Omo river”
- Amharic: “ኦሞ ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “نهر أومو”
- Armenian: “Օմո”
- Asturian: “Ríu Omo”
- Azerbaijani: “Omo çayı”
- Basque: “Omo ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Ома”
- Bulgarian: “Омо”
- Burmese: “အိုမိုမြစ်”
- Catalan: “riu Omo”
- Catalan: “Riu Omo”
- Cebuano: “Omo Botego”
- Chinese: “奥莫河”
- Chinese: “奧莫河”
- Chuvash: “Омо”
- Croatian: “Omo”
- Czech: “Omo”
- Danish: “Omo”
- Dutch: “Omo (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Omo”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Omo”
- Esperanto: “Valo Omo”
- Estonian: “Omo jõgi”
- Estonian: “Omo”
- Finnish: “Omo”
- French: “Basse vallée de l’Omo”
- French: “Fleuve Omo”
- French: “Omo”
- French: “rivière Omo”
- French: “Rivière Omo”
- Georgian: “ომო”
- German: “Omo”
- German: “rivière Omo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Omo River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Umaa River”
- Greek: “Όμο”
- Hausa: “Kogin Omo”
- Hausa: “Kogin Umaa”
- Hebrew: “אומו”
- Hindi: “ओमो की निचली घाटी”
- Hindi: “ओमो नदी”
- Hungarian: “Omo”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Omo”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Omo”
- Irish: “Abhainn Omo”
- Italian: “Omo”
- Italian: “rivière Omo”
- Japanese: “オモ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Omo”
- Korean: “오모강”
- Latvian: “Omo”
- Lithuanian: “Omas”
- Lithuanian: “Omo upė”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Arãulu Omo”
- Malayalam: “ഒമോ നദി”
- Maltese: “Xmara Omo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Omo”
- Norwegian: “Omo”
- Persian: “رودخانه اومو”
- Polish: “Omo”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Omo”
- Portuguese: “Rio Omo”
- Russian: “Омо”
- Serbian: “Омо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Omo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rijeka Omo”
- Slovak: “Omo”
- Slovenian: “Omo”
- Somali: “Webiga Omo”
- Spanish: “Río Omo”
- Spanish: “Valle bajo del Omo”
- Swahili: “Mto Omo”
- Swedish: “Omo Botego”
- Swedish: “Omo”
- Tatar: “Омо елгасы”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Omo”
- Turkish: “Omo Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Омо”
- Urdu: “دریائے اومو”
- Venetian: “Fiume Valle bajo del Omo”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Omo”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng thấp Omo”
- Welsh: “Afon Omo”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے اومو”
- Wolaytta: “Umaa Shaafaa”
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