Yenisey
The Yenisey or Yenisei is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean. Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through Lake Baikal and the Krasnoyarsk Dam before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Asia; the 5th-longest in the world
- Also known as: “Enisey”, “Ienies”, “Jenisej”, “R. Yenisei”, “River Yenisei”, “Ulu Kem”, “Ulug-Khem”, “Yenesei”, “Yenisei”, “Yenisei R.”, and “Yenisei River”
Yenisey
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yenisey” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Jenisei”
- Afrikaans: “Jenisejrivier”
- Arabic: “نهر ينسي”
- Arabic: “نهر ينيسي”
- Armenian: “Ենիսեյ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Yeniséi”
- Azerbaijani: “Yenisey vadisi”
- Azerbaijani: “Yenisey”
- Bashkir: “Йәнәсәй”
- Basque: “Jenisei”
- Belarusian: “Енісей”
- Bengali: “ইয়েনিসেই নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “येनेसी नदी”
- Bosnian: “Jenisej”
- Breton: “Yenisey”
- Bulgarian: “Енисей”
- Buriat: “Горлог мүрэн”
- Catalan: “Ienissei”
- Cebuano: “Yenisey”
- Chinese: “Enisei Hô”
- Chinese: “叶尼塞河”
- Chinese: “葉尼塞河”
- Chuvash: “Енисей”
- Crimean Tatar: “Yenisey”
- Croatian: “Jenisej”
- Czech: “Jenisej”
- Danish: “Jenisej”
- Dutch: “Jenisej”
- Eastern Mari: “Енисей”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ينسى”
- Esperanto: “Jenisejo”
- Estonian: “Jenissei”
- Extremaduran: “Ríu Yenissei”
- Fiji Hindi: “Yenisei Naddi”
- Finnish: “Jenisei”
- French: “Ienisseï”
- French: “R. Enissei”
- French: “R. Ienisseï”
- French: “Rivière Enissei”
- French: “Rivière Ienisseï”
- Galician: “Río Ienisei”
- Galician: “río Ienissei”
- Georgian: “ენისეი”
- German: “Jenissei”
- Greek: “Γενισέι”
- Hebrew: “יניסיי”
- Hindi: “येनिसेय नदी”
- Hungarian: “Jenyiszej”
- Ido: “Fluvio Yenisei”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Yenisei”
- Irish: “Yenisei”
- Italian: “Enisej”
- Japanese: “エニセイ川”
- Kazakh: “Енисей”
- Kirghiz: “Енисей”
- Korean: “예니세이강”
- Kurdish: “Yenîsey”
- Latin: “Ienisea”
- Latvian: “Jeņiseja”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Ienisei”
- Lithuanian: “Jenisiejus”
- Macedonian: “Енисеј”
- Malagasy: “Yenisei”
- Malay: “Sungai Yenisei”
- Malayalam: “യെനിസി നദി”
- Malayalam: “യെനിസ്സി”
- Marathi: “येनिसे नदी”
- Mazanderani: “ینیسئی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Enisei Hô”
- Mingrelian: “ენისეი”
- Mongolian: “Gorlog mörön”
- Mongolian: “Горлог мөрөн”
- Mongolian: “Енисей мөрөн”
- Moroccan Arabic: “يينيسي”
- Newari: “येनिसेइ”
- Northern Frisian: “Jenisej”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jenisej”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jenisej”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øvre Jenisej”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ulug Khem”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Verkhnij Jenisej”
- Norwegian: “Jenisej”
- Ossetian: “Енисей”
- Persian: “رود ینیسئی”
- Persian: “ینیسئی”
- Polish: “Jenisej”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ienissei”
- Romanian: “Enisei”
- Russia Buriat: “Горлог мүрэн”
- Russian: “Енисей”
- Russian: “Енисе́й”
- Santali: “ᱭᱮᱱᱤᱥᱮᱭ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
- Santali: “ᱭᱮᱱᱤᱥᱮᱭᱤ ᱱᱟ.ᱭ”
- Scots: “Yenisei River”
- Serbian: “Енисей”
- Serbian: “Јенисеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jenisej”
- Sicilian: “Enisej”
- Sindhi: “ينيسي دریاھہ”
- Slovak: “Jenisej”
- Slovenian: “Jenisej”
- South Azerbaijani: “ینیسئی چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Yenisei”
- Spanish: “río Yeniséi”
- Spanish: “Río Yeniséi”
- Swahili: “Yenisei”
- Swahili: “Yenisey”
- Swedish: “Jenisej”
- Tagalog: “Ilog ng Yenisei”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Yenisei”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Йенисеи”
- Tajik: “Енисей”
- Tamil: “ஏநிசை ஆறு”
- Tamil: “ஏநிசை நதி”
- Tatar: “Енисей”
- Tatar: “Янәсәй”
- Telugu: “యెనిసెయి నది”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเยนีเซย์”
- Turkish: “Yenisey Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Yenisey”
- Tuvinian: “Улуг-Хем”
- Ukrainian: “Єнісей”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jenisej”
- Urdu: “ینیسی دریا”
- Uzbek: “Yenisey”
- Venetian: “Fiume Yeniséi”
- Vietnamese: “Enisei”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yenisei”
- Welsh: “Afon Yenisei”
- Western Frisian: “Jenisej”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ ینیسے”
- Wu Chinese: “叶尼塞河”
- Yue Chinese: “葉尼塞河”
- “येनिसी नदी”
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