Zambezi

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers 1,390,000 km2, slightly less than half of the Nile's.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: fourth-longest river in Africa
  • Also known as: “Delta do Zambeze”, “Fiume Zambesi”, “Ilog ng Zambesi”, “Ilog ng Zambezi”, “Ilog Zambesi”, “Ilog Zambezi”, “Luabo de Este”, “Mto wa Zambezi”, “Mto Zambezi”, “Rio Cuama”, “Rio Zambezi”, “Río Zambezi”, “Riu Zambeze”, “Rivero Zambezi”, “Sambes”, “Sambèse”, “Sambesi jõgi”, “Sambesífljót”, “Sambesijoki”, “Sambezi”, “Sambisi”, “Sambizi”, “Sông Zambezi”, “Zambèse”, “Zambesifloden”, “Zambezi ibaia”, “Zambezi Irmağı”, “Zambezi jõgi”, “Zambezi Nehri”, “Zambezi River”, “Zambezi rivero”, “Zambezi-fluvio”, “Zambezifljót”, “Zambezifloden”, “Zambezo”, “Zambisi”, “Zambizi”, “Река Замбези”, “رود زامبزی”, “نهر الزمبيزي”, “نهر زمبازي”, “แม่น้ำซัมเบซี”, “잠베지”, “ザンベジ”, “三比西河”, “利巴河”, and “尚比西河”

Zambezi

Latitude
-18.83333° or 18° 50′ south
Longitude
36.28333° or 36° 17′ east
Open location code
5GHR578M+M8
Geo­Names ID
876728
Wiki­data ID
Q43106
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Zambezi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zambezirivier”
  • Albanian: “zambezi”
  • Arabic: “نهر زمبيزي”
  • Armenian: “Զամբեզի”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Zambeze”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zambezi çayı”
  • Bashkir: “Замбези”
  • Basque: “Zambezi”
  • Belarusian: “Замбезі”
  • Belarusian: “Замбэзі”
  • Bengali: “জাম্বেজি নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “जेम्बेजी नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Zambezi”
  • Breton: “Zambeze”
  • Bulgarian: “Замбези”
  • Burmese: “ဇမ်ဗီဇီမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “riu Zambezi”
  • Catalan: “Zambezi”
  • Cebuano: “Zambezi River”
  • Chinese: “贊比西河”
  • Chinese: “赞比西河”
  • Cornish: “Dowr Sambesi”
  • Croatian: “Zambezi”
  • Czech: “Zambezi”
  • Dagbani: “Zambezi”
  • Danish: “Zambezi”
  • Dutch: “Zambezi”
  • Esperanto: “Zambezi”
  • Estonian: “Zambezi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Zambezi Naddi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Zambezi”
  • Finnish: “Sambesi”
  • French: “Zambèze”
  • Galician: “Río Zambeze”
  • Georgian: “ზამბეზი”
  • German: “Sambesi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zambezi River”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zambezi”
  • Greek: “Ζαμβέζης”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Sambése”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાંબેઝી”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Zambezi”
  • Hebrew: “זמבזי”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाम्बेज़ी नदी”
  • Hindi: “जेम्बेजी नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Zambézi”
  • Icelandic: “Sambesí”
  • Ido: “Zambezi”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Zambezi”
  • Interlingua: “Zambezi”
  • Irish: “An tSaimbéis”
  • Italian: “Zambesi”
  • Japanese: “ザンベジ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Zambezi”
  • Kabiyè: “Sambɛzɩ pɔɔ”
  • Kazakh: “Замбези”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Zambezi”
  • Kirghiz: “Замбези дарыясы”
  • Korean: “잠베지강”
  • Latin: “Zambezi”
  • Latvian: “Zambezi”
  • Lingala: “Zambezi”
  • Lithuanian: “Zambezė”
  • Lombard: “Zambezi”
  • Macedonian: “Замбези”
  • Malagasy: “Zambezi”
  • Malay: “Sungai Zambezi”
  • Malayalam: “സാംബീസി നദി”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zambezi Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “ზამბეზი”
  • Mongolian: “Замбези гол”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “واد زامبيزي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sambeesi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zambezi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zambezi”
  • Norwegian: “Zambezi”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Zambezi River”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Zambezi”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Zambezi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zambèzi”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੰਬੇਜ਼ੀ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “زامبزی”
  • Polish: “Zambezi”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Zambeze”
  • Romanian: “Fluviul Zambezi”
  • Romanian: “Zambezi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Замбези”
  • Russian: “Замбези”
  • Scots: “Zambezi”
  • Serbian: “Замбези”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zambezi”
  • Shona: “Rwizi Zambezi”
  • Sindhi: “زيمبيزي ندي”
  • Slovak: “Zambezi”
  • Slovenian: “Zambezi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زامبزی چایی”
  • Spanish: “río Zambeze”
  • Spanish: “Río Zambeze”
  • Swahili: “Zambezi”
  • Swedish: “Zambezi”
  • Swiss German: “Sambesi”
  • Tagalog: “Zambezi”
  • Tamil: “சாம்பசி ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Замбези”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำแซมบีซี”
  • Tibetan: “ཙན་པི་ཞི་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Tswana: “Zambesi”
  • Turkish: “Zambezi”
  • Tyap: “A̱ghyui Zambezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Замбезі”
  • Urdu: “زیمبیزی دریا”
  • Uzbek: “Zambezi”
  • Vietnamese: “Zambezi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zambezi”
  • Welsh: “Afon Zambezi”
  • Western Frisian: “Sambezy”
  • Western Mari: “Замбези”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ زیمبزی”
  • Wu Chinese: “赞比西河”
  • Yakut: “Замбези”
  • Yue Chinese: “贊比西河”
  • “जेम्बेजी नदी”

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