Emba River
The Emba in west Kazakhstan rises in the Mugodzhar Hills and flows across the Sub-Ural Plateau and Caspian Depression into the Caspian Sea. It is 712 kilometres long, and has a drainage basin of 40,400 square kilometres.
- Type: Intermittent stream
- Description: river in Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Emba” and “Embi”
Emba River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Atyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.73259° or 46° 43′ 57″ north
Longitude
53.16487° or 53° 9′ 54″ east
Elevation
-28 metres (-92 feet)
Open location code
8HRMP5M7+2W
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Emba River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر إمبا”
- Armenian: “Էմբա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Emba”
- Azerbaijani: “Emba çayı”
- Belarusian: “Эмба (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Эмба”
- Bulgarian: “Емба”
- Cebuano: “Zhem”
- Chinese: “恩巴河”
- Chuvash: “Эмба”
- Czech: “Emba”
- Dutch: “Emba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر امبا”
- Estonian: “Žem”
- Finnish: “Emba”
- French: “Emba”
- Georgian: “ემბა”
- German: “Emba”
- Hungarian: “Zsem”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Emba”
- Irish: “Abhainn Emba”
- Italian: “Emba”
- Japanese: “エンバ川”
- Kazakh: “Ембі”
- Kazakh: “Жем”
- Kirghiz: “Эмба”
- Korean: “엠바강”
- Latin: “Iastus”
- Lithuanian: “Emba”
- Mingrelian: “ემბა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Emba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Emba”
- Norwegian: “Emba”
- Persian: “رود امبا”
- Polish: “Emba”
- Portuguese: “Rio Emba”
- Romanian: “Râul Emba”
- Russian: “Эмба”
- Spanish: “Río Emba”
- Swedish: “Emba”
- Turkish: “Emba Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Емба”
- Uzbek: “Emba”
- Venetian: “Fiume Emba”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Emba”
- Welsh: “Afon Emba”
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