Han River
The Han River is a major river in South Korea. It flows through the central region of the Korean Peninsula, with some of its tributaries and drainage basin in North Korea.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in South Korea
- Also known as: “Han Gang River”, “Han Jiang”, “Han R.”, “Han River (Korea)”, “Han-ch’ŏn”, “Han-Fluss”, “Han-kang”, “Hān-kāng”, “Han-kang River”, “Han’gang”, “Hang R.”, “Hang River”, “Hang-kiang”, “Hangang River”, “Hanjiang”, “Hankiang”, “Kan-kō”, “Namhan-gang”, “Nankan-kō”, “R. Han”, “R. Hang”, “R. Seoul”, “R. Seul”, “River Han”, “River Hang”, “River Seoul”, “River Seul”, “Ryel-su”, “Seoul R.”, “Seoul River”, “Seul R.”, “Seul River”, “Söul River”, “Ποταμός Χάνγκανγκ”, “Χάνγκανγκ”, “نهر الهان (كوريا)”, “கான் நதி”, “漢江 (朝鮮)”, and “漢江 (韓国)”
Han River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.75° or 37° 45′ north
Longitude
126.18333° or 126° 11′ east
Open location code
8Q98Q52M+28
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Han River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر هان”
- Armenian: “Հանգան”
- Asturian: “Ríu Han”
- Basque: “Han ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Ханган”
- Bengali: “হান নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Хан (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Хан”
- Burmese: “ဟန်မြစ်”
- Catalan: “Riu Han”
- Cebuano: “Han-gang”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری ھان”
- Chinese: “漢江”
- Croatian: “Han”
- Czech: “Hangang”
- Danish: “Han”
- Dutch: “Han Gang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر هان”
- Esperanto: “Hanrivero”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Han”
- Estonian: “Hani jõgi”
- Finnish: “Han”
- Finnish: “Hanjoki”
- French: “Han”
- Georgian: “ჰანგანი”
- German: “Hangang”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Χαν”
- Hebrew: “נהר האן”
- Hebrew: “נהר ההאן”
- Hungarian: “Han folyó”
- Hungarian: “Han”
- Icelandic: “Hanfljót”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Han (Korea Selatan)”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Han”
- Italian: “fiume Han”
- Italian: “Fiume Han”
- Japanese: “漢江”
- Javanese: “Kali Han”
- Kazakh: “Ханган”
- Kazakh: “Хангаң”
- Kirghiz: “Ханган”
- Korean: “한강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Han”
- Kurdish: “Rûbarê Han”
- Lithuanian: “Han upė”
- Lithuanian: “Hangangas”
- Malay: “Sungai Han”
- Marathi: “हा नदी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hàn-kang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Han”
- Norwegian: “Han”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Riu Han”
- Persian: “رود هان”
- Polish: “Han-gang”
- Portuguese: “Rio Han”
- Romanian: “râul Han”
- Romanian: “Râul Han”
- Russian: “Ханган”
- Scots: “Han River”
- Serbian: “Хан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Han”
- Slovak: “Han”
- Slovenian: “Han, Koreja”
- Slovenian: “reka Han”
- South Azerbaijani: “هان (کره) چایی”
- South Azerbaijani: “هان چایی”
- Spanish: “Han”
- Spanish: “Río Han”
- Sundanese: “Walungan Han”
- Swedish: “Han”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Ҳан”
- Tajik: “Ҳан”
- Tamil: “கான் ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำฮัน”
- Turkish: “Han Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Річка Хан”
- Ukrainian: “Хан”
- Venetian: “Fiume Han”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Hán”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Han (Korea)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Han”
- Welsh: “Afon Han”
- Wu Chinese: “汉江(韩国)”
- Wu Chinese: “汉江”
- Yue Chinese: “漢江 (韓國)”
- Yue Chinese: “漢江”
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