Selenga

The Selenga or Selenge is a major river in and Buryatia, . Originating from its headwater tributaries, the and the Delger mörön, it flows for 992–1,024 kilometres before draining into .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Mongolia and Russia
  • Also known as: Se-leng-ko Ho”, “Se-lun-k’o Ho”, “Seleng”, “Selenga River”, and “Selenge

Selenga

Latitude
52.26667° or 52° 16′ north
Longitude
106.26667° or 106° 16′ east
Elevation
453 metres (1,486 feet)
Open location code
9P487788+MM
Geo­Names ID
2029431
Wiki­data ID
Q75745
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Selenga” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Selenga
  • Arabic: نهر سلنغا
  • Arabic: نهر سيلينجا
  • Armenian: Սելենգա
  • Asturian: Ríu Selenga
  • Azerbaijani: Selenqa çayı
  • Basque: Selenge
  • Belarusian: рака Селенга
  • Belarusian: Селенга
  • Bengali: সেলেংগা নদী
  • Bosnian: Selenga
  • Bulgarian: Селенга
  • Buriat: Selenge gol
  • Buriat: Selenge müren
  • Buriat: Сэлэнгэ гол
  • Buriat: Сэлэнгэ мүрэн
  • Catalan: Riu Selenga
  • Catalan: Selenga
  • Catalan: Selengà
  • Catalan: Selenge
  • Catalan: Selengue
  • Cebuano: Selenga
  • Chinese: 娑陵水
  • Chinese: 色楞格河
  • Croatian: Selenga
  • Czech: Selenga
  • Danish: Selenge
  • Dutch: Selenga
  • Egyptian Arabic: نهر سيلينجا
  • Esperanto: Selenge
  • Estonian: Selenga
  • Estonian: Selenge jõgi
  • Estonian: Selenge
  • Finnish: Selenga
  • French: Selenga
  • French: Sélenga
  • French: Selenge
  • Georgian: სელენგა
  • German: Selenga
  • Greek: Σελένγκα
  • Hebrew: סלנגה
  • Hindi: सेलेंगा नदी
  • Hindi: सेलेंगे नदी
  • Hindi: सेलेन्गा नदी
  • Hungarian: Szelenga
  • Hungarian: Szelenge
  • Indonesian: Selenga
  • Irish: Abhainn Selenga
  • Italian: Selenga
  • Italian: Selenge
  • Italian: Sėlėngė
  • Japanese: セレンガ川
  • Japanese: セレンゲ川
  • Kazakh: Селенга
  • Kirghiz: Селенга
  • Korean: 설련하
  • Korean: 셀렝가
  • Korean: 셀렝가강
  • Korean: 셀렝게 강
  • Latin: Selenga
  • Latvian: Selenga
  • Latvian: Seļenga
  • Lithuanian: Selenga
  • Lithuanian: Selengė
  • Luxembourgish: Selenga
  • Macedonian: Селенга
  • Macedonian: Селенге
  • Malayalam: സെലംഗ നദി
  • Marathi: सेलेंगा नदी
  • Mingrelian: სელენგა
  • Mongolian: Selenge Mörön
  • Mongolian: Сэлэнгэ мөрөн
  • Northern Frisian: Selenga (Struum)
  • Northern Frisian: Selenga
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Selenga
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Selenga
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Selenge
  • Norwegian: Selenga
  • Ossetian: Селенга
  • Persian: رود سلنگا
  • Polish: Selenga
  • Portuguese: Rio Selenga
  • Portuguese: Selenga
  • Romanian: Selenga
  • Russia Buriat: Сэлэнгэ мүрэн
  • Russia Buriat: Сэлэнгэ
  • Russian: Селенга
  • Russian: Селенга́
  • Scots: Selenga River
  • Serbian: Селенга
  • Serbo-Croatian: Selenga
  • Slovak: Selenga
  • Slovenian: Selenga
  • South Azerbaijani: سلنقا چایی
  • Spanish: Rio Selenga
  • Spanish: Rio Selengá
  • Spanish: Río Selenga
  • Spanish: Río Selengá
  • Spanish: Selenga
  • Spanish: Selengá
  • Swedish: Selenga
  • Swedish: Selenge
  • Tajik: Дарёи Селенга
  • Tajik: Селенга
  • Turkish: Selenga Irmağı
  • Turkish: Selenga Nehri
  • Turkish: Selenge Irmağı
  • Turkish: Selenge Nehri
  • Turkish: Selenge
  • Ukrainian: Селенга
  • Upper Sorbian: Selenga
  • Uzbek: Selenga
  • Venetian: Fiume Selengá
  • Vietnamese: Sông Selenga
  • Vietnamese: Sông Selenge
  • Welsh: Afon Selenga
  • Western Frisian: Selenga
  • Western Frisian: Selenge
  • Wu Chinese: 色楞格河
  • Yue Chinese: 色楞格河

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