Yenisey

The Yenisei or Yenisey is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean. Beginning in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through the before draining into the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Asia; the 5th-longest in the world
  • Also known as: “Enisei River”, “Enisey”, “Enisey River”, “Ienies”, “Jenisej River”, “Øvre Jenisej”, “R. Enissei”, “R. Ienisseï”, “Rio Yenisei”, “River Enisei”, “River Enisey”, “River Jenisej”, “River Yenisei”, “River Yenisey”, “Rivière Enissei”, “Rivière Ienisseï”, “Ulu Kem”, “Ulug Khem”, “Ulug-Khem”, “Verkhnij Jenisej”, “Yenesei”, “Yenisei”, “Yenisei River”, “Yenisey Irmağı”, “Yenisey River”, “نهر ينيسي”, “ینی‌سئی”, “യെനിസ്സി”, and “ᱭᱮᱱᱤᱥᱮᱭᱤ ᱱᱟ.ᱭ”

Yenisey

Latitude
71.8277° or 71° 49′ 40″ north
Longitude
82.6803° or 82° 40′ 49″ east
Open location code
CM34RMHJ+34
Geo­Names ID
1485999
Wiki­data ID
Q78707
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yenisey” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jenisei”
  • Afrikaans: “Jenisejrivier”
  • Arabic: “نهر ينسي”
  • 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: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Jenisej”
  • Ossetian: “Енисей”
  • Persian: “رود ینی‌سئی”
  • Polish: “Jenisej”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Ienissei”
  • Romanian: “Enisei”
  • Russia Buriat: “Горлог мүрэн”
  • Russian: “Енисей”
  • Russian: “Енисе́й”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱮᱱᱤᱥᱮᱭ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
  • Scots: “Yenisei River”
  • Serbian: “Јенисеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jenisej”
  • Sicilian: “Enisej”
  • Sindhi: “ينيسي دریاھہ”
  • Slovak: “Jenisej”
  • Slovenian: “Jenisej”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ینی‌سئی چایی”
  • 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”
  • 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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