Orkhon River
The Orkhon River is the longest river in Mongolia. It rises in the Khangai Mountains in the Tsenkher sum of Arkhangai aimag at the foot of the Suvraga Khairkhan mountain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: He-ba-mue, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Mongolia
- Also known as: “O-erh-hun Ho”, “O-erh-k’un”, “Orkbon”, “Orkhon gol”, and “Reka Orkhon”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sühbaatar.
Sühbaatar
Photo: Gavinevans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sükhbaatar is the capital of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia, on the Orkhon river. As of late 2007, the city population is 19,224.
Orkhon River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mongolia, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Orkhon River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر أرخون”
- Arabic: “نهر أورخون”
- Arabic: “نهر الأرخون”
- Arabic: “نهر الأورخون”
- Armenian: “Օրխոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Orkhon”
- Azerbaijani: “Orxon çayı”
- Basque: “Orkhon ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Архон”
- Belarusian: “Рака Архон”
- Bulgarian: “Орхон”
- Catalan: “Ongkin”
- Catalan: “Orkhon”
- Catalan: “Riu Orkhon”
- Cebuano: “Orhon Gol”
- Chinese: “鄂尔浑河”
- Chinese: “鄂爾渾河”
- Czech: “Orchon gol”
- Czech: “Orchon”
- Dutch: “Orchon”
- Dutch: “Orhon”
- Dutch: “Orhun Rivier”
- Dutch: “Orhunrivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اورخون”
- Esperanto: “Orĥon”
- Estonian: “Orhon”
- Finnish: “Orhon”
- French: “Orhon”
- French: “Orkhon”
- Georgian: “ორხონი”
- German: “Orchon”
- German: “Orchonfluss”
- German: “Orhon”
- Hebrew: “אורחון”
- Hindi: “ओरख़ोन नदी”
- Hungarian: “Orhon”
- Irish: “Abhainn Orkhon”
- Italian: “Orhon”
- Japanese: “オルホン川”
- Japanese: “オルホン河”
- Japanese: “嗢昆河”
- Kirghiz: “Оркон”
- Kirghiz: “Орхон”
- Korean: “오르콘 강”
- Korean: “오르혼 강”
- Korean: “오르홍강”
- Latin: “Orchon”
- Latvian: “Orhona”
- Lithuanian: “Orchonas”
- Mingrelian: “ორხონი”
- Mongolian: “Орхон гол”
- Northern Frisian: “Orchon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orkhon Gol”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orkhon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orkhonelven”
- Norwegian: “Orkhon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Orkhon”
- Ossetian: “Орхон”
- Persian: “رود اورخون”
- Polish: “Dolina Orchon”
- Polish: “Orchon gol”
- Polish: “Orchon”
- Portuguese: “Rio Orcom”
- Portuguese: “Rio Orkhon”
- Romanian: “Orchon”
- Romanian: “Râul Orchon”
- Romanian: “Râul Orhon”
- Russian: “Орхон”
- Scots: “Orkhon River”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orhon gol”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orhon”
- Slovak: “Orchon”
- Slovenian: “Orhon”
- Spanish: “Río Orjon”
- Spanish: “Río Orjón”
- Spanish: “Río Orkhon”
- Swedish: “Orchon”
- Swedish: “Orchonfloden”
- Swedish: “Orhon Gol”
- Swedish: “Orhon”
- Swedish: “Orkhon”
- Swedish: “Orkon”
- Tamil: “ஒர்கான் ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Orhon Nehri”
- Turkish: “Orhun Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Orhun Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Орхон”
- Venetian: “Fiume Orjón”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Orkhon”
- Welsh: “Afon Orkhon”
- Western Panjabi: “اورخون دریا”
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