Sunkoshi River
The Sunkoshi, also spelled Sunkosi, is a river that is part of the Koshi or Saptkoshi River system in Nepal. Sunkoshi has two source streams, one that arises within Nepal in Choukati, and the other more significant stream that flows in from Nyalam County in the Tibet region of China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Nepal
- Also known as: “Kosi River”, “Sun Kosi”, “Sun Kosi River”, “Sun-k’o-hsi Ho”, and “Sunkoshi river”
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 6 km south of Sunkoshi River.
Sunkoshi River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Belaka, Udayapur, Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Sunkoshi River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sun Kosi”
- Cebuano: “Sun Kosi River”
- Chinese: “孙科西河”
- Chinese: “桑戈西河”
- Chinese: “逊科西河”
- Chinese: “遜科西河”
- Dotyali: “सुनकोशी नदी”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سون كوسى”
- German: “Sunkoshi”
- Japanese: “スンコシ川”
- Lithuanian: “Sun Kosis”
- Maithili: “सुनकोशी नदी”
- Malayalam: “സങ്കോഷി നദി”
- Nepali: “Sunkoshi̇̄ Nadi̇̄”
- Nepali: “Sunkoshi̇̄”
- Nepali: “सुन कोशी नदी”
- Nepali: “सुनकोशी नदी”
- Nepali: “सुनकोशी”
- Polish: “Sunkosi”
- Russian: “Сун-Коси”
- Sanskrit: “सुनकोशी”
- Ukrainian: “Санкоші (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Санкоші”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sunkoshi River”. Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0.