Chu
The Chu is a river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan. Of its total length of 1,067 kilometres, the first 115 kilometres are in Kyrgyzstan, then for 221 kilometres the river serves as the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan and the last 731 kilometres are in Kazakhstan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Chu R.”, “Chu River”, “Chuy”, “Chüy”, “R. Chu”, “R. Shu”, “R. Shū”, “River Chu”, “River Shu”, “River Shū”, “Shu”, “Shū”, “Shu R.”, “Shū R.”, “Shu River”, and “Shū River”
Chu
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Turkistan Oblast, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر تشو”
- Armenian: “Չու”
- Asturian: “Ríu Chu”
- Azerbaijani: “Çu çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Çüy çayı”
- Bashkir: “Сөй (йылға)”
- Bashkir: “Сөй”
- Basque: “Txu ibaia”
- Basque: “Txu”
- Belarusian: “Рака Чу”
- Belarusian: “Чу”
- Bulgarian: “Чу”
- Catalan: “Txu”
- Cebuano: “Chu River”
- Cebuano: “Shū”
- Chinese: “楚河”
- Chinese: “碎叶河”
- Chuvash: “Чу”
- Croatian: “Ču”
- Czech: “Ču”
- Dutch: “Čùj”
- Dutch: “Tsjoej”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تشو”
- Estonian: “Tšüj jõgi”
- Finnish: “Şu”
- French: “R. Tchou”
- French: “Tchou”
- Georgian: “ჩუ (მდინარე)”
- Georgian: “ჩუ”
- German: “Çüy”
- German: “Schu”
- German: “Şu”
- German: “Tschu”
- German: “Tschüi”
- Hebrew: “נהר צ’ו”
- Hindi: “चुय नदी”
- Hungarian: “Chu”
- Hungarian: “Csu”
- Irish: “Abhainn Chu”
- Irish: “Shū”
- Italian: “Ču”
- Japanese: “チュイ川”
- Kazakh: “Шу”
- Kirghiz: “Чүй”
- Korean: “추강”
- Latin: “Czu”
- Lithuanian: “Ču”
- Low German: “Çüy”
- Low German: “Schu”
- Low German: “Şu”
- Low German: “Tschu”
- Low German: “Tschüi”
- Malayalam: “ചു നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsju”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsju”
- Norwegian: “Tsju”
- Persian: “رودخانه چو”
- Polish: “Czu”
- Portuguese: “Rio Chu”
- Russian: “Чу”
- Russian: “Шу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ču”
- South Azerbaijani: “چو چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Chu”
- Spanish: “Río Chu”
- Swedish: “Tju”
- Tatar: “Чөй”
- Turkish: “Çu Nehri”
- Turkish: “Çüy Nehri”
- Uighur: “چۇ دەرياسى”
- Ukrainian: “Чу”
- Uzbek: “Chu”
- Venetian: “Fiume Chu”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Chuy”
- Welsh: “Afon Chu”
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