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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: “Luabo de Este”, “Rio Cuama”, “Zambesi”, “Zambeze”, and “Zambezi River”

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: “Zambezi”
  • Afrikaans: “Zambezirivier”
  • Albanian: “zambezi”
  • Arabic: “نهر الزمبيزي”
  • Arabic: “نهر زمبازي”
  • Arabic: “نهر زمبيزي”
  • Armenian: “Զամբեզի”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Zambeze”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zambezi çayı”
  • Bashkir: “Замбези”
  • Basque: “Zambezi ibaia”
  • Basque: “Zambezi”
  • Belarusian: “Замбезі”
  • Belarusian: “Замбэзі”
  • Bengali: “জাম্বেজি নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “जेम्बेजी नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Zambezi”
  • Breton: “Zambeze”
  • Bulgarian: “Замбези”
  • Burmese: “ဇမ်ဗီဇီမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Riu Zambeze”
  • Catalan: “riu Zambezi”
  • Catalan: “Zambesi”
  • Catalan: “Zambeze”
  • Catalan: “Zambezi”
  • Cebuano: “Zambezi River”
  • Chinese: “Zambezi Hô”
  • Chinese: “三比西河”
  • Chinese: “利巴河”
  • Chinese: “尚比西河”
  • Chinese: “贊比西河”
  • Chinese: “赞比西河”
  • Cornish: “Dowr Sambesi”
  • Croatian: “Zambezi”
  • Czech: “Zambeze”
  • Czech: “Zambezi”
  • Danish: “Sambesi”
  • Danish: “Zambezi”
  • Dutch: “Zambesi”
  • Dutch: “Zambezi”
  • Dutch: “Zambezirivier”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Zambezi”
  • Esperanto: “Zambezi”
  • Esperanto: “Zambezo”
  • Estonian: “Sambesi jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Sambesi”
  • Estonian: “Zambezi jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Zambezi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Zambezi Naddi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Zambezi”
  • Finnish: “Sambes”
  • Finnish: “Sambesi”
  • Finnish: “Sambesijoki”
  • Finnish: “Zambezi”
  • French: “Sambèse”
  • French: “Zambèse”
  • French: “Zambeze”
  • French: “Zambèze”
  • Galician: “Río Zambeze”
  • Georgian: “ზამბეზი”
  • German: “Sambesi”
  • German: “Zambesi”
  • German: “Zambezi”
  • Greek: “Ζαμβέζης”
  • Guarani: “Ysyry Sambése”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાંબેઝી”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Zambezi”
  • Hebrew: “זמבזי”
  • Hindi: “ज़ाम्बेज़ी नदी”
  • Hindi: “जेम्बेजी नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Zambézi”
  • Icelandic: “Sambesí”
  • Icelandic: “Sambesífljót”
  • Icelandic: “Zambezifljót”
  • Ido: “Zambezi rivero”
  • Ido: “Zambezi-fluvio”
  • Ido: “Zambezi”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Zambezi”
  • Indonesian: “Zambesi”
  • Indonesian: “Zambezi”
  • Interlingua: “Zambezi”
  • Irish: “An tSaimbéis”
  • Italian: “Fiume Zambesi”
  • Italian: “Zambesi”
  • Italian: “Zambezi”
  • Japanese: “ザンベジ”
  • Japanese: “ザンベジ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Zambezi”
  • Kabiyè: “Sambɛzɩ pɔɔ”
  • Kazakh: “Замбези”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Zambezi”
  • Kirghiz: “Замбези дарыясы”
  • Korean: “잠베지”
  • Korean: “잠베지강”
  • Latin: “Zambezi”
  • Latvian: “Zambeze”
  • Latvian: “Zambezi”
  • Lingala: “Zambezi”
  • Lithuanian: “Zambezė”
  • Lombard: “Zambesi”
  • 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: “Zambesi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zambezi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zambesi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zambezi”
  • Norwegian: “Zambezi”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Zambezi”
  • Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Zambezi”
  • Obolo: “Zambesi”
  • Obolo: “Zambeze”
  • Obolo: “Zambezi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zambèzi”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੰਬੇਜ਼ੀ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “رود زامبزی”
  • Persian: “زامبزی”
  • Polish: “Zambezi”
  • Portuguese: “Delta do Zambeze”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Zambeze”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Zambezi”
  • Portuguese: “Zambeze”
  • Romanian: “Fluviul Zambezi”
  • Romanian: “Zambezi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Замбези”
  • Russian: “Замбези”
  • Scots: “Zambezi”
  • Serbian: “Замбези”
  • Serbian: “Река Замбези”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zambezi”
  • Shona: “Rwizi Zambezi”
  • Shona: “Zambezi”
  • Sindhi: “زيمبيزي ندي”
  • Slovak: “Zambezi”
  • Slovenian: “Zambezi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زامبزی چایی”
  • Spanish: “Rio Zambeze”
  • Spanish: “río Zambeze”
  • Spanish: “Río Zambeze”
  • Spanish: “Rio Zambezi”
  • Spanish: “Río Zambezi”
  • Spanish: “Zambeze”
  • Swahili: “Mto wa Zambezi”
  • Swahili: “Mto Zambezi”
  • Swahili: “Zambezi”
  • Swedish: “Sambesi”
  • Swedish: “Zambesi”
  • Swedish: “Zambesifloden”
  • Swedish: “Zambezi”
  • Swedish: “Zambezifloden”
  • Swiss German: “Sambesi”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Zambesi”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog ng Zambezi”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Zambesi”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Zambezi”
  • Tagalog: “Sambesi”
  • Tagalog: “Sambezi”
  • Tagalog: “Sambisi”
  • Tagalog: “Sambizi”
  • Tagalog: “Zambesi”
  • Tagalog: “Zambezi”
  • Tagalog: “Zambisi”
  • Tagalog: “Zambizi”
  • Tamil: “சாம்பசி ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Замбези”
  • Thai: “Zambezi”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำซัมเบซี”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำแซมบีซี”
  • Tibetan: “ཙན་པི་ཞི་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sambesi”
  • Turkish: “Zambezi Irmağı”
  • Turkish: “Zambezi Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Zambezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Замбезі”
  • Urdu: “زیمبیزی دریا”
  • Uzbek: “Zambezi”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Zambezi”
  • Vietnamese: “Zambesi”
  • Vietnamese: “Zambeze”
  • 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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