Ghaghara
The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and as the Sarayu River in the lower Ghaghara of India's Awadh, is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.
- Type: Stream
- Description: perennial trans-boundary river originating on the Tibetan Plateau near Lake Mansarovar
- Also known as: “Gagra”, “Ghaghara River”, “Ghāghara River”, “Ghâghra”, “Ghāghra”, “Ghagra”, “Ghâgra”, “Ghagra River”, “Ghargharā”, “Girwa”, “Gogra River”, “Gorga”, “K’ung-ch’iao Ho”, “Karnali River”, “Kauriala”, “Khakra”, “Kung-chiao Ho”, “Mapcha Tsangpo”, “Rio Ghaghara”, “rio Ghaghra”, “Rio Ghaghra”, “Rio Ghāghrā”, “río Ghaghra”, “Rio Ghagra”, “Rio Gogra”, “Rio Karnali”, “Rio Kauriala”, and “ガーガラー川”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chhapra and Revelganj.
Revelganj
Town
Ghaghara
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.73951° or 25° 44′ 22″ north
Longitude
84.70304° or 84° 42′ 11″ east
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Open location code
7MQ6PPQ3+R6
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Ghaghara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر غاغهرا”
- Armenian: “Գհագհրա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Ghaghara”
- Azerbaijani: “Qhaqhara çayı”
- Basque: “Karnali ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Гхагхра”
- Bengali: “কর্ণালী নদী”
- Bengali: “ঘর্ঘরা নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “घाघरा”
- Bulgarian: “Гхагхара”
- Catalan: “Gogra”
- Cebuano: “Kauriālā River”
- Chinese: “加格拉河”
- Chuvash: “Гхагхра”
- Czech: “Ghághra”
- Dotyali: “कर्णाली नदी”
- Dutch: “Ghaghara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر جاجهرا”
- Esperanto: “Karnalio”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ghaghara”
- Finnish: “Karnali”
- French: “Karnali”
- Georgian: “გჰაგჰრა”
- German: “Ghaghara”
- Greek: “Γκαγκάρα”
- Gujarati: “ઘાઘરા નદી”
- Hindi: “घाघरा नदी”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Ghaghara”
- Irish: “Abhainn Ghaghara”
- Italian: “Karnali”
- Japanese: “ガーグラー川”
- Kannada: “ಘಾಘ್ರಾ”
- Korean: “가가라강”
- Lithuanian: “Ghaghra”
- Lithuanian: “Gogra”
- Macedonian: “Гагара”
- Maithili: “कर्णाली नदी”
- Malayalam: “ഘാഗ്ര നദി”
- Mingrelian: “გჰაგჰრა”
- Nepali: “कर्णाली नदी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghaghara”
- Panjabi: “ਘਾਘਰਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Panjabi: “ਘਾਘਰਾ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رود گاگرا”
- Persian: “گهاگهرا”
- Polish: “Ghaghra”
- Portuguese: “Rio Gagara”
- Romanian: “Râul Karnali”
- Russian: “Гхагхара”
- Russian: “Гхагхра”
- Serbian: “Гагра”
- Slovenian: “Karnali”
- South Azerbaijani: “قاقهرا چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Karnali”
- Tamil: “காக்ரா ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำฆาฆรา”
- Turkish: “Karnali Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Ґхаґхара”
- Urdu: “دریائے گھاگھرا”
- Venetian: “Fiume Karnali”
- Welsh: “Afon Ghaghara”
- Western Panjabi: “گھگھارا دریا”
- “घाघरा”
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