Shire River

The Shire is the largest river in . It is the only outlet of and flows into the River in . Its length is 402 kilometres.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in southern Malawi and central Mozambique
  • Also known as: Mopanga” and “Shiré

Shire River

Latitude
-17.7° or 17° 42′ south
Longitude
35.31667° or 35° 19′ east
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Open location code
5GJQ78X8+XM
Geo­Names ID
1048833
Wiki­data ID
Q2279579
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shire River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Shirerivier
  • Arabic: نهر شاير
  • Arabic: نهر شيري
  • Asturian: Ríu Shire
  • Belarusian: Шырэ
  • Bulgarian: Шире
  • Catalan: Riu Shire
  • Cebuano: Shire River
  • Chinese: 希雷河
  • Chinese: 西爾河
  • Chuvash: Шире
  • Croatian: Shire (rijeka)
  • Croatian: Shire
  • Czech: Shire
  • Danish: Shire (flod)
  • Danish: Shire
  • Dutch: Shire
  • Esperanto: Shire (rivero)
  • Esperanto: Shire
  • Estonian: Shire jõgi
  • Finnish: Shire-joki
  • Finnish: Shirejoki
  • French: Shire (riviere)
  • French: Shire
  • Fulah: Fedde Shire
  • Galician: Río Shire
  • Georgian: შირე
  • German: Shire
  • Hebrew: נהר שייר
  • Hebrew: נהר שירה
  • Irish: Abhainn Shire
  • Italian: Shire
  • Japanese: シーレ川
  • Japanese: シレ川
  • Latvian: Šire
  • Lithuanian: Širė
  • Malayalam: ഷയറുംക്രോമാര്ട്ടിയും നദി
  • Moroccan Arabic: واد شيري
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Shire
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Elva Shire
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Shire-elva
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Shireelva
  • Norwegian: Shire
  • Nyanja: Mtsinje wa Shire
  • Persian: رود شایر
  • Polish: Shire
  • Portuguese: Rio Chire
  • Portuguese: Rio Shire
  • Romanian: Râul Shire
  • Russian: Шире
  • Russian: Ширей
  • Serbo-Croatian: Shire (rijeka)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Shire
  • Slovenian: reka Shire
  • Slovenian: Shire River
  • Slovenian: Shire
  • Slovenian: Shiré
  • Spanish: Rio Shire
  • Spanish: Río Shire
  • Swahili: Mto Shire
  • Swahili: Shire (mto)
  • Swahili: Shire
  • Swedish: Shire
  • Swedish: Shirefloden
  • Ukrainian: Шире
  • Uzbek: Shir (daryo)
  • Uzbek: Shir
  • Welsh: Afon Shire
  • Yue Chinese: 西爾河

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