Kagera River
The Kagera River, also known as Akagera River, or Alexandra Nile, is an East African river, forming part of the upper headwaters of the Nile and carrying water from its most distant source.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in East Africa
- Also known as: “Akagera”, “Akagera River”, “Alexandra Nile”, “Kogin Akagera”, “Nilo Alexandra”, and “Salog Akagera”
Kagera River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Burundi, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-0.95° or 0° 57′ south
Longitude
31.78333° or 31° 47′ east
Elevation
1,134 metres (3,720 feet)
Open location code
6GFH2QXM+X8
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kagera River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kagerarivier”
- Amharic: “ካጌራ ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “كاجيرا”
- Arabic: “نهر كاجيرا”
- Armenian: “Կագերա (գետ)”
- Armenian: “Կագերա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kagera”
- Basque: “Kagera (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Kagera”
- Belarusian: “Кагера”
- Bengali: “কাজিরা নদী”
- Bosnian: “Kagera”
- Bulgarian: “Кагера”
- Catalan: “riu Kagera”
- Catalan: “Riu Kagera”
- Cebuano: “Kagera”
- Central Bikol: “Salog Kagera”
- Chinese: “卡蓋拉河”
- Croatian: “Kagera”
- Czech: “Kagera”
- Dagbani: “Kagera Mɔɣili”
- Dagbani: “Kagera River”
- Danish: “Kagera”
- Dutch: “Kagera”
- Esperanto: “Kagero”
- Estonian: “Kagera”
- Finnish: “Kagera”
- French: “Kagera”
- Galician: “Río Kagera”
- Georgian: “კაგერა”
- German: “Kagera-Nil”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kagera River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Kagera”
- Hebrew: “קאגרה”
- Hindi: “कगेरा नदी”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Kagera”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kagera”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kagera”
- Italian: “Kagera”
- Japanese: “カゲラ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Kagera”
- Korean: “카게라강”
- Kotava: “Kagera (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Kagera”
- Latin: “Kagera”
- Latvian: “Kagera”
- Lithuanian: “Kagera”
- Luxembourgish: “Kagera-Nil”
- Macedonian: “Кагера”
- Malay: “Sungai Kagera”
- Malayalam: “കഗെര നദി”
- Mingrelian: “კაგერა”
- Nauru: “Kagera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kagera”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kagera”
- Norwegian: “Kagera”
- Persian: “رود کاگرا”
- Polish: “Kagera”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cagera”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kagera”
- Russian: “Кагера”
- Scots: “Kagera River”
- Serbian: “Кагера”
- Slovak: “Kagera”
- Slovenian: “Kagera”
- Somali: “Webiga Kagera”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاقرا چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Kagera”
- Swahili: “Mto Kagera”
- Swedish: “Kagerafloden”
- Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠎꠤꠞꠣ ꠘꠠꠤ”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Kagera”
- Turkish: “Kagera Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Кагера”
- Venetian: “Kagera”
- Vietnamese: “Kagera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Kagera”
- Welsh: “Afon Kagera”
- Wu Chinese: “卡盖拉河”
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