Salhir River
The Salhyr or Salgir is the longest river of the Crimean Peninsula. Its length is 204 km, and its drainage basin is 3,750 km2. The average discharge of the water is 2 m3/s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Crimea, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Sałgir”, “Salhir”, and “Salhyr”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arabat Spit and Liubymivka.
Arabat Spit
Locality
Photo: Herostratus, Public domain.
The Arabat Spit, or Arabat Arrow, is a barrier spit that separates the large, shallow, salty Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. The spit runs between the Henichesk Strait in the north and the north-eastern shores of Crimea in the south. Arabat Spit is situated 4 km north of Salhir River.
Salhir River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Crimea, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Salhir River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Salhir River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Salgir”
- Azerbaijani: “Salqir”
- Bashkir: “Салғыр”
- Belarusian: “Салгыр”
- Bulgarian: “Салгир”
- Cebuano: “Salhyr”
- Chinese: “薩爾吉爾河”
- Chuvash: “Салгир”
- Crimean Tatar: “Salğır”
- Crimean Tatar: “Salɣyr” (historical)
- Crimean Tatar: “Салгъыр”
- Croatian: “Salgir”
- Czech: “Salgir”
- Dutch: “Salgir”
- Eastern Mari: “Салгир”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سالهير”
- Erzya: “Салгир”
- Esperanto: “Salgiro”
- Estonian: “Salgir”
- French: “Salguir”
- French: “Salhir”
- French: “Salhyr”
- German: “Salhyr”
- Hebrew: “סלגיר”
- Hungarian: “Szalgir”
- Hungarian: “Szalhir”
- Irish: “Abhainn Salhir”
- Japanese: “サルヒール川”
- Kazakh: “Салғыр (өзен)”
- Kazakh: “Салғыр”
- Ladin: “Salgir”
- Latvian: “Salgira”
- Lithuanian: “Salhiras”
- Macedonian: “Салгир”
- Mingrelian: “სალგირი”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salhir”
- Persian: “رودخانه سالهیر”
- Polish: “Sałhir”
- Polish: “Sałhyr”
- Portuguese: “Rio Salgir”
- Russian: “Салгир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Salgir”
- Spanish: “Rio Salgir”
- Spanish: “Río Salgir”
- Tajik: “Дарёи солҳир”
- Tajik: “Салҳир”
- Turkish: “Salgır Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Salhir”
- Ukrainian: “Салгир, Крим”
- Ukrainian: “Салгир”
- Ukrainian: “Салгір”
- Uzbek: “Salhyr”
- Venetian: “Fiume Salgir”
- Veps: “Salgir”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Salhyr”
- Welsh: “Afon Salhir”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Urochyshche Utyne and Urochyshche Patamanove.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Syvash Sea and Arabat Spit.
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