Shire River
The Shire is the largest river in Malawi. It is the only outlet of Lake Malawi and flows into the Zambezi River in Mozambique. Its length is 402 kilometres.
- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 27 metres (89 feet)
- Description: river in southern Malawi and central Mozambique
- Also known as“Mopanga”“Shiré”
Shire River
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Latitude
-17.7° or 17° 42′ south
Longitude
35.31667° or 35° 19′ east
Open location code
5GJQ78X8+XM
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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”
- Chuvash: “Шире”
- Croatian: “Shire (rijeka)”
- Croatian: “Shire”
- Czech: “Shire”
- Dagbani: “Shire River”
- Dagbani: “Shiré”
- Danish: “Shire (flod)”
- Danish: “Shire”
- Dutch: “Shire”
- Esperanto: “Shire (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Shire”
- Estonian: “Shire jõgi”
- Finnish: “Shire-joki”
- Finnish: “Shirejoki”
- French: “Shire”
- Fulah: “Fedde Shire”
- Galician: “Río Shire”
- Georgian: “შირე”
- German: “Shire”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Shire River”
- Hausa: “Rafin Shire”
- Hebrew: “נהר שייר”
- Hebrew: “נהר שירה”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Shire”
- Irish: “Abhainn Shire”
- Italian: “Shire”
- Japanese: “シーレ川”
- Japanese: “シレ川”
- Korean: “시레강”
- 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”
- Somali: “Webiga Shire”
- Spanish: “Rio Shire”
- Spanish: “Río Shire”
- Swahili: “Mto Shire”
- Swahili: “Shire (mto)”
- Swahili: “Shire”
- Swedish: “Shire”
- Swedish: “Shirefloden”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Shire”
- Tumbuka: “Dambo la Shire”
- Turkish: “Shire Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Шире”
- Uzbek: “Shir (daryo)”
- Uzbek: “Shir”
- Welsh: “Afon Shire”
- Yue Chinese: “西爾河”
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