Arun River
The Arun River is a trans-boundary river that is part of the Koshi or Sapta Koshi river system in Nepal. It originates in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China where it is called the Phung Chu or Bum-chu.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nirmal Dulal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Nepal and Tibet
- Also known as: “A-lu Ho”, “A-lun Ho”, “A-lung Ho”, “Arun”, “Arun Chhu”, “P’eng-ch’ü Ho”, “Pong Qu”, and “Pum Qu”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chatra Gorge.
Chatra Gorge
Locality
The Chatra Gorge is a canyon cut by the Kosi River across the Mahabharat Range in Nepal. Chatra Gorge is situated 5 km north of Arun River.
Arun River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Arun River” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Արուն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Arun”
- Cebuano: “Arun River”
- Chinese: “朋曲”
- Chinese: “澎曲”
- Chinese: “阿润河”
- Chinese: “阿潤河”
- Chinese: “阿龍河”
- Chinese: “阿龙河”
- Dotyali: “अरुण नदी”
- Dutch: “Arun (Nepal)”
- Dutch: “Arun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ارون”
- German: “Arun”
- Gujarati: “અરુણ નદી, નેપાળ”
- Hebrew: “נהר ארון”
- Hindi: “अरुण नदी”
- Hindi: “अरुन ऱिवेर्”
- Irish: “Abhainn Arun”
- Italian: “Arun”
- Italian: “Bum-chu”
- Italian: “Peng Qu”
- Italian: “Phung Chu”
- Italian: “Phung-Chu”
- Italian: “Pumqu”
- Kannada: “ಅರುಣ ನದಿ”
- Lithuanian: “Arunas”
- Macedonian: “Арун (притокa на Коси)”
- Macedonian: “Арун”
- Maithili: “अरूण नदी”
- Malayalam: “അരുൺ നദി, ചൈന-നേപ്പാൾ”
- Nepali: “अरुण नदी”
- Nepali: “अरूण नदी”
- Nepali: “अरूण”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arun-elven”
- Norwegian: “Arun-elven”
- Polish: “Arun”
- Polish: “Phung-Czu”
- Russian: “Арун”
- Sanskrit: “अरूण नदी”
- Sanskrit: “अरूणनदी”
- South Azerbaijani: “آرون، چین-نپال چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Arun”
- Spanish: “Río Arun”
- Swedish: “Arun River”
- Tamil: “அருண் ஆறு, சீனா - நேபாளம்”
- Tamil: “அருண் ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Arun Nehri”
- Welsh: “Afon Arun”
- Western Panjabi: “ارون دریا”
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