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: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Rwanda
- Also known as: “Akagera River” and “Alexandra Nile”
Kagera River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Burundi, East Africa, Africa
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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”
- Danish: “Kagera”
- Dutch: “Kagera”
- Esperanto: “Kagero”
- Estonian: “Kagera”
- Finnish: “Kagera”
- French: “Kagera”
- Galician: “Río Kagera”
- Georgian: “კაგერა”
- German: “Kagera-Nil”
- Hausa: “Kogin Kagera”
- Hebrew: “קאגרה”
- Hindi: “कगेरा नदी”
- 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: “Akagera”
- 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”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاقرا چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Kagera”
- Spanish: “Río Kagera”
- Swahili: “Mto Kagera”
- Swedish: “Kagerafloden”
- Sylheti: “ꠇꠣꠎꠤꠞꠣ ꠘꠠꠤ”
- Turkish: “Kagera Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Кагера”
- Venetian: “Kagera”
- Vietnamese: “Kagera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nilo Alexandra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Akagera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Kagera”
- Welsh: “Afon Kagera”
- Wu Chinese: “卡盖拉河”
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