Charyn
The Charyn or Sharyn is a river in the Almaty Province of Kazakhstan. It flows through the Charyn National Park and into the Ili River, which is considered to be the largest artery of Lake Balkhash.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Kazakhstan, tributary to the Ili and famed for its canyons
- Also known as: “Charön”, “Charyn River”, “Kur-Tcharyn”, “River Charyn”, “River Sharyn”, “Sharyn”, “Sharyn River”, and “Tcharyn”
Charyn
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Almaty Province, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Charyn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر تشاراين”
- Arabic: “نهر تشارين”
- Asturian: “Ríu Charyn”
- Bulgarian: “Чарън”
- Cebuano: “Sharyn”
- Chinese: “恰伦河”
- Chuvash: “Чарын”
- Czech: “Čaryn”
- Czech: “Šaryn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تشارين”
- Estonian: “Šarõn”
- Estonian: “Šarõni jõgi”
- Estonian: “Tšarõn”
- French: “Tcharyn”
- German: “Scharyn”
- Irish: “Abhainn Charyn”
- Italian: “Charyn”
- Kazakh: “Şarın”
- Kazakh: “Шарын”
- Kazakh: “شارىن”
- Persian: “رود شارین”
- Polish: “Czaryn”
- Polish: “Szaryn”
- Russian: “Кур Чарын”
- Russian: “Кур-Чарын”
- Russian: “Река Чарын”
- Russian: “Чарын”
- Spanish: “Rio Charyn”
- Spanish: “Río Charyn”
- Swedish: “Charyn”
- Swedish: “Sharyn”
- Turkish: “Çarın Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Чарин”
- Welsh: “Afon Charyn”
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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 “Charyn”. Photo: Mheidegger, CC BY-SA 3.0.