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.
- Stream
- Description: river in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia, Russia
- Also known as“Ssunsha”“Sunsha”“Sunzha River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braguny and Staroshchedrinskaya.
Braguny
Braguny is a rural locality in Gudermessky District, Chechnya. Braguny is situated 3 km west of Sunzha.
Staroshchedrinskaya
Staroshchedrinskaya is a village, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Sunzha.
Novoshchedrinskaya
Novoshchedrinskaya is a village, which is situated 6 km northwest of Sunzha.
Sunzha
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Latitude
43.44032° or 43° 26′ 25″ north
Longitude
46.13439° or 46° 8′ 4″ east
Open location code
8HM8C4RM+4Q
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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: “Сунжа”
- Bulgarian: “Сунжа”
- Catalan: “Sunja”
- 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: “Шолж”
- Ingush: “Шолжа”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sunzha”
- 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: “Río Sunzha”
- Tatar: “Сунжа”
- Turkish: “Sunja Nehri”
- Turkish: “Sunja”
- Ukrainian: “Сунжа”
- Venetian: “Fiume Sunzha”
- Welsh: “Afon Sunzha”
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