Volga

The Volga is the longest river in and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in , it flows through to and into the Caspian Sea.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Russia; the longest river in Europe
  • Also known as: “fiume Volga”, “Fleuve Volga”, “Fluvio Volga”, “İdel”, “Oares (in Greek)”, “Phục Nhĩ Gia”, “R. Volga”, “R. Wolga”, “Rā (in Scythian)”, “Rha river (in Scythian)”, “River Volga”, “River Wolga”, “Volga daryosi”, “Volga R.”, “Volga River”, “Volga-juuhâ”, “Volgajohka”, “Volgajokk”, “Volgajuuhâ”, “Wolga R.”, “Wolga River”, “Волга дарёси”, “Идыл”, “Иҙел”, “Ра”, “Река Волга”, “فولغا (نهر)”, “ڤولڭا”, “لڤولڭا”, “نهر فولغا”, and “ヴォルガ河”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alekseyevka and Arshinnyy.

Hamlet
Alexeyevka is a rural locality in Samosdelsky… is situated 3½ km north of Volga.

Village
Arshin is a rural locality in Samosdelsky Selsoviet, , , Russia. is situated 6 km north of Volga.

Village
Photo: Tadusj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a rural locality… is situated 10 km east of Volga.

Volga

Latitude
45.91947° or 45° 55′ 10″ north
Longitude
47.86816° or 47° 52′ 5″ east
Elevation
-29 metres (-95 feet)
Open location code
8HQ9WV99+Q7
Geo­Names ID
472776
Wiki­data ID
Q626
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Volga” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wolga”
  • Albanian: “Lumi i Vollgës”
  • Albanian: “Vollga”
  • Amharic: “ቮልጋ ወንዝ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥᾶ”
  • Arabic: “فولغا”
  • Aragonese: “Río Volga”
  • Armenian: “Վոլգա”
  • Assamese: “ভল্গা নদী”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Volga”
  • Asturian: “Volga”
  • Avaric: “Волга”
  • Aymara: “Volga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Volqa çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Volqa”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Volga”
  • Bashkir: “Волга”
  • Basque: “Volga”
  • Bavarian: “Wolga”
  • Belarusian: “Волга”
  • Bengali: “ভোলগা নদী”
  • Betawi: “Wolga”
  • Bhojpuri: “वोल्गा”
  • Bosnian: “Volga”
  • Breton: “Volga”
  • Bulgarian: “Волга”
  • Burmese: “ဗော်လ်ဂါမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Volga”
  • Cebuano: “Volga”
  • Central Kanuri: “Volga River”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری ڤۆڵگا”
  • Chechen: “Волга”
  • Chechen: “Ийдал”
  • Chinese: “伏尔加河”
  • Chinese: “伏爾加河”
  • Chinese: “窩瓦河”
  • Church Slavic: “Вльга”
  • Chuvash: “Атӑл”
  • Cornish: “Dowr Volga”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Edil”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İdil”
  • Croatian: “Volga”
  • Czech: “Volha”
  • Danish: “Volga”
  • Dutch: “Wolga”
  • Eastern Mari: “Юл”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤولجا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الفولجا”
  • Erzya: “Рав”
  • Esperanto: “Volgo”
  • Estonian: “Volga”
  • Extremaduran: “Riu Volga”
  • Faroese: “Volga”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Volga Naddi”
  • Fijian: “Volga”
  • Finnish: “Volga”
  • French: “Volga”
  • Galician: “río Volga”
  • Galician: “Río Volga”
  • Georgian: “ვოლგა”
  • German: “Wolga”
  • Greek: “Βόλγας”
  • Guarani: “Volga”
  • Gujarati: “વોલ્ગા નદી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Volga hò”
  • Hebrew: “וולגה”
  • Hindi: “वोल्गा नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Volga”
  • Icelandic: “Volga”
  • Ido: “Rivero Volga”
  • Ido: “Volga”
  • Iloko: “Karayan Volga”
  • Inari Sami: “Volga”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Volga”
  • Ingush: “Идал”
  • Interlingua: “Volga”
  • Interlingue: “Volga”
  • Irish: “An Volga”
  • Italian: “Volga”
  • Japanese: “ヴォルガ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Volga”
  • Kabiyè: “Fɔlɩka Pɔɔ”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n Volga”
  • Kabyle: “Volga”
  • Kannada: “ವೋಲ್ಗಾ ನದಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Volga”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Итил”
  • Kazakh: “Еділ”
  • Kirghiz: “Эдил”
  • Komering: “Way Volga”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Волга”
  • Komi: “Волга”
  • Korean: “볼가강”
  • Kotava: “Volga (kuksa)”
  • Kotava: “Volga”
  • Kurdish: “Volga”
  • Ladin: “Volga”
  • Ladino: “Volga”
  • Latin: “Rha”
  • Latvian: “Volga”
  • Lezghian: “Волга”
  • Limburgan: “Volga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Volga”
  • Literary Chinese: “窩瓦河”
  • Lithuanian: “Volga”
  • Lombard: “Volga”
  • Low German: “Wolga”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wolga”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wolga”
  • Macedonian: “Волга”
  • Malagasy: “Volga (ony)”
  • Malagasy: “Volga”
  • Malay: “Sungai Volga”
  • Malayalam: “വോൾഗ നദി”
  • Marathi: “वोल्गा नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “ولگا”
  • Mingrelian: “ვოლგა”
  • Mirandese: “Riu Bolga”
  • Mirandese: “Riu Volga”
  • Moksha: “Рава”
  • Mongolian: “Ижил мөрөн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “واد لڤولڭا”
  • Nauru: “Volga”
  • Neapolitan: “Volga”
  • Nepali: “भोल्गा”
  • Newari: “भोल्गा खुसि”
  • Newari: “भोल्गा खुसी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wolga (Struum)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wolga”
  • Northern Sami: “Volga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Volga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Volga”
  • Norwegian: “Volga”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Volga”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vòlga”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Folga”
  • Ossetian: “Волгæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੋਲਗਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود ولگا”
  • Persian: “رودخانه ولگا”
  • Picard: “Volga”
  • Piemontese: “Vòlga”
  • Polish: “Wołga”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Volga”
  • Pushto: “ولګا”
  • Romanian: “Volga”
  • Romansh: “Volga”
  • Romansh: “Wolga”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эжэл мүрэн”
  • Russian: “Волга”
  • Rusyn: “Волґа”
  • Samogitian: “Vuolga”
  • Sardinian: “vuulgà”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wolga”
  • Scots: “Volga”
  • Serbian: “Волга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Volga”
  • Sicilian: “Volga”
  • Silesian: “Wołga”
  • Sindhi: “وولگا درياھ”
  • Sinhala: “වොල්ගා නදිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Volga”
  • Slovak: “Volga”
  • Slovenian: “Volga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وولقا”
  • Southern Altai: “Эдил”
  • Spanish: “Volga”
  • Swahili: “Volga”
  • Swedish: “Volga”
  • Swiss German: “Wolga”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Volga”
  • Tajik: “Волга”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Волга”
  • Talysh: “Volgə”
  • Tamil: “வோல்கா ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Идел”
  • Telugu: “వోల్గా నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำวอลกา”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྥོར་ཅཱ་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Turkish: “Volga Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Volga”
  • Turkmen: “Wolga”
  • Udmurt: “Волга”
  • Uighur: “ۋولگا دەرياسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Волга”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wolga”
  • Urdu: “دریائے وولگا”
  • Uzbek: “Volga”
  • Uzbek: “Волга”
  • Venetian: “Volga”
  • Veps: “Volg”
  • Vietnamese: “sông Volga”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Volga”
  • Vlaams: “Volga”
  • Volapük: “Volga”
  • Võro: “Volga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Volga”
  • Welsh: “Afon Volga”
  • Western Armenian: “Վոլկա”
  • Western Frisian: “Wolga”
  • Western Mari: “Йыл”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے وولگا”
  • Wu Chinese: “浮卡河”
  • Yakut: “Волга”
  • Yiddish: “וואלגא”
  • Yue Chinese: “伏加河”
  • “वोल्गा”

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