Chambeshi River
The Chambeshi River of northeastern Zambia is the most remote headstream of the Congo River and therefore it is considered the source of the Congo River.
- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 1,165 metres (3,822 feet)
- Description: river in Zambia
- Also known as“Chambeze River”“Chambezi”“Chambezi River”
Chambeshi River
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Latitude
-11.82363° or 11° 49′ 25″ south
Longitude
29.88711° or 29° 53′ 14″ east
Open location code
5GWF5VGP+GR
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Chambeshi River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chambeshirivier”
- Arabic: “نهر تشامبيشي”
- Asturian: “Ríu Chambeshi”
- Belarusian: “Чамбешы”
- Belarusian: “Чамбэшы”
- Bosnian: “Chambeshi”
- Catalan: “Riu Chambeshi”
- Cebuano: “Chambeshi”
- Cebuano: “Chambesi”
- Chinese: “謙比西河”
- Chuvash: “Чамбези”
- Czech: “Chambeshi”
- Danish: “Chambeshi-floden”
- Dutch: “Chambeshi River”
- Dutch: “Chambeshi”
- Esperanto: “Ĉambeŝi”
- French: “Chambeshi”
- Fulah: “Chambeshi River”
- Georgian: “ჩამბეში”
- German: “Chambeshi”
- Hausa: “Kogin Chambeshi”
- Hebrew: “נהר צ’מבשי”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Chambeshi”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Chambeshi”
- Irish: “Abhainn Chambeshi”
- Italian: “Chambeshi”
- Japanese: “チャンベシ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Chambeshi”
- Latvian: “Čambeši”
- Lithuanian: “Čambešis”
- Malayalam: “ഛംബെശി നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ჩამბეში”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chambeshi”
- Norwegian: “Chambeshi”
- Polish: “Chambeshi”
- Portuguese: “Rio Chambeshi”
- Russian: “Чамбези”
- Russian: “Чамбеши”
- Serbian: “Чамбеши”
- Slovenian: “Chambeshi”
- Somali: “Webiga Chambeshi”
- Spanish: “Rio Chambeshi”
- Spanish: “Río Chambeshi”
- Swahili: “Chambeshi”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Chambeshi”
- Turkish: “Çambesi Nehri”
- Vietnamese: “Chambeshi”
- Welsh: “Afon Chambeshi”
- Western Panjabi: “چمبیشی دریا”
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