Kapuas River
The Kapuas River is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At 1,143 km in length, it is the longest river on the island of Borneo, the longest river in Indonesia and one of the world's longest island rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Great Kapoeas River”, “Great Kapuas”, and “Kapuas Besar”
Kapuas River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: West Kalimantan, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kapuas River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kapuas”
- Arabic: “نهر كابواس”
- Armenian: “Կապուաս”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kapuas”
- Azerbaijani: “Kapuas çayı”
- Balinese: “Tukad Kapuas”
- Banjar: “Sungai Kapuas”
- Basque: “Kapuas”
- Belarusian: “Капуас”
- Bengali: “কাপুয়াস নদী”
- Breton: “Kapuas”
- Bulgarian: “Капуас”
- Catalan: “Riu Kapuas”
- Cebuano: “Sungai Kapuas”
- Chinese: “卡普阿斯河”
- Chinese: “卡江”
- Chuvash: “Капуас”
- Croatian: “Kapuas”
- Czech: “Kapuas”
- Dutch: “Kapuas”
- Dutch: “Sungai Kapuas (vattendrag i Indonesien, Kalimantan Barat)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كابواس”
- Esperanto: “Kapuas”
- Finnish: “Kapuas”
- French: “Kapuas”
- Galician: “Río Kapuas”
- Georgian: “კაპუასი”
- German: “Kapuas”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Κάπουας”
- Hebrew: “קפואס”
- Iban: “Batang Kapuas”
- Indonesian: “Kapuas Besar”
- Indonesian: “Kapuas”
- Indonesian: “Soengai Kapoes”
- Indonesian: “Soengai Kapoewas”
- Indonesian: “Soengi Kapoeas”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kapuas”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kapuas”
- Italian: “Kapuas”
- Japanese: “カプアス川”
- Javanese: “Kali Kapuas”
- Javanese: “Kapuas”
- Komering: “Batangari Kapuas”
- Komering: “Way Kapuas”
- Korean: “카푸아스강”
- Lithuanian: “Kapuasas”
- Lithuanian: “Kapujas”
- Macedonian: “Капуас”
- Malay: “Sungai Kapuas”
- Malayalam: “കപുവാസ് നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapuas”
- Norwegian: “Kapuas”
- Persian: “رودخانه کاپواس”
- Polish: “Kapuas”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kapuas”
- Russian: “Капуас (река, впадает в Южно-Китайское море)”
- Russian: “Капуас”
- Santali: “ᱠᱟᱯᱩᱣᱟᱥ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kapuas”
- Slovenian: “Kapuas”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاپواس چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Kapuas”
- Spanish: “Río Kapuas”
- Sundanese: “Kapuas Besar”
- Sundanese: “walungan Kapuas”
- Swedish: “Sungai Kapuas, Kalimantan Barat”
- Swedish: “Sungai Kapuas”
- Tajik: “Darjoi Kapuas”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Капуас”
- Tajik: “Капуас”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำกาปูวัซ”
- Turkish: “Kapuas Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Капуас”
- Uzbek: “Kapuas”
- Vietnamese: “Kapuas”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Kapuas”
- Welsh: “Afon Kapuas”
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