Atbarah River
The Atbarah River, also referred to as the Red Nile and / or Black Nile, is a river in northeast Africa. It rises in northwest Ethiopia, approximately 50 km north of Lake Tana and 30 km west of Gondar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Africa
- Also known as: “Atbara”, “Atbara river”, “Black Nile”, “Nahr ‘Aţbarah”, “Red Nile”, “River Atbara”, and “River Goang”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atbara.
Atbara
Atbara is a city of 115,000 inhabitants in Northern Sudan. Due to its links to the railway industry, Atbara is also known as the Railway City.
Atbarah River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Atbarah River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Atbarah River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عطبرة (نهر)”
- Arabic: “نهر عطبرة”
- Arabic: “نهر عطبرة”
- Asturian: “Ríu Atbarah”
- Azerbaijani: “Ətbar çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Ətbar”
- Azerbaijani: “Ətbara çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Ətbara”
- Azerbaijani: “Qara Nil”
- Azerbaijani: “Qırmızı Nil”
- Basque: “Atbara ibaia”
- Basque: “Atbara”
- Belarusian: “Атбара”
- Bulgarian: “Атбара”
- Catalan: “Atsaboras”
- Catalan: “Nahr ‘Atbarah”
- Catalan: “Riu Atbara”
- Cebuano: “Nahr Atbara”
- Chinese: “阿特巴拉河”
- Czech: “Atbara”
- Danish: “Atbarah”
- Dutch: “Atbarah”
- Esperanto: “Atbara (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Atbara”
- Estonian: “‘Aţbarah‘ jõgi”
- Estonian: “‘Aţbarah’ jõgi”
- Estonian: “Atbara”
- Finnish: “Atbara”
- French: “Atbara”
- German: “Atbara”
- German: “Schwarzer Nil”
- Hebrew: “עטברה”
- Hungarian: “Atbara”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Atbarah”
- Irish: “Abhainn Atbarah”
- Italian: “Atbara”
- Japanese: “アトバラ川”
- Kirghiz: “Атбара”
- Latin: “Astaboras”
- Lithuanian: “Atbara”
- Malayalam: “അത്ബരഹ് നദി”
- Malayalam: “അത്ബറ നദി”
- Mazanderani: “آتبارا”
- Mazanderani: “عطبره”
- Mingrelian: “ატბარა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ატბარა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atbara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Atbara”
- Persian: “رود عطبره”
- Polish: “Atbara (rzeka)”
- Polish: “Atbara”
- Portuguese: “Rio Astabora”
- Portuguese: “Rio Atbara”
- Portuguese: “Rio Atbarah”
- Romanian: “Atbara (râu)”
- Romanian: “Atbara”
- Romanian: “Râul Atbara”
- Russian: “Атбара”
- Russian: “Красный Нил”
- Russian: “Чорный Нил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atbara (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Atbara”
- Slovenian: “Atbara”
- Slovenian: “Rdeči Nil”
- Spanish: “Rio Atbara”
- Spanish: “Río Atbara”
- Swahili: “Atbara (mto)”
- Swahili: “Atbara”
- Swedish: “Atbara”
- Swedish: “Atbarah”
- Ukrainian: “Атбара”
- Ukrainian: “Бахр-ель-Асуад”
- Urdu: “دریائے عطبرہ”
- Uzbek: “Atbara”
- Venetian: “Fiume Atbara”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Atbarah”
- Welsh: “Afon Atbarah”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as El Linqawi and El Timeran.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gazerat El Kaboshab and Gazerat Umm Gadik.
Ethiopia: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Addis Ababa, Axum, Harar, and Dire Dawa.
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