Sunzha
The Sunzha is a river in North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechnya, Russia, a tributary of the Terek. It flows northeast inside the great northwest bend of the Terek River and catches most of the rivers that flow north from the mountains before they reach the Terek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia, Russia
- Also known as: “Ssunsha”, “Sunsha”, and “Sunzha River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braguny and Komsomolskoye.
Braguny
Village
Photo: Саид Мисарбиев, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Braguny is a rural locality in Gudermessky District, Chechnya. Braguny is situated 3 km west of Sunzha.
Darbankhi
Village
Darbankhi is a rural locality in Gudermessky District, Chechnya. Darbankhi is situated 10 km southwest of Sunzha.
Sunzha
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Chechnya, North Caucasus, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sunzha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر سونزا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Sunzha”
- Azerbaijani: “Sunja (Terekin qolu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Sunja”
- Belarusian: “Рака Сунжа”
- Belarusian: “Сунжа”
- Bulgarian: “Сунжа”
- Cebuano: “Sunzha”
- Chechen: “Соьлжа”
- Chinese: “孙扎河”
- Chinese: “孫扎河”
- Chuvash: “Сунжа”
- Czech: “Sunža”
- Danish: “Sunzja”
- Dutch: “Soenzja”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سونزا”
- Erzya: “Сунжа (Терекень сянглей )”
- Erzya: “Сунжа”
- Esperanto: “Sunĵa”
- Estonian: “Sunža jõgi”
- Estonian: “Sunža”
- Finnish: “Sunža”
- French: “Sounja”
- French: “Sunzha”
- Georgian: “სუნჯა”
- German: “Sunscha”
- Ingush: “Шолжа”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sunzha”
- Italian: “Sunza”
- Italian: “Sunža”
- Italian: “Sunzha”
- Japanese: “スンジャ川”
- Kabardian: “Сындж”
- Ladin: “Sunja”
- Ladin: “Sunzha”
- Latvian: “Sunža”
- Lithuanian: “Sunža”
- Malayalam: “സൺഷ നദി”
- Mazanderani: “سونژا”
- Mingrelian: “სუნჯა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sunzja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sunzja”
- Norwegian: “Sunzja”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sunzha”
- Ossetian: “Сунжæ”
- Persian: “سونژا”
- Polish: “Sunża”
- Romanian: “Râul Sunja”
- Russian: “Соня”
- Russian: “Сунжа (приток Терека)”
- Russian: “Сунжа”
- Spanish: “Rio Sunzha”
- Spanish: “Río Sunzha”
- Tatar: “Сунжа”
- Turkish: “Sunja Nehri”
- Turkish: “Sunja”
- Ukrainian: “Сунжа”
- Venetian: “Fiume Sunzha”
- Welsh: “Afon Sunzha”
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