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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southern Malawi and central Mozambique
- Also known as: “Mopanga” and “Shiré”
Shire River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mozambique, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Shire River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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