Fly River
The Fly River is the third longest river on the island of New Guinea, after the Sepik and Mamberamo, with a total length of 1,060 km. It is the largest by volume of discharge in Oceania, the largest in the world without a single dam in its catchment, and overall the 23rd-largest primary river in the world by discharge volume.- Stream
- Description: river in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
- Also known as“Birak River”“Fly-rivier”“Gower-rivier”“Ok Birak”“Pnyang River”“Sungai Gower”“Wai Pnyang”
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Latitude
-8.34059° or 8° 20′ 26″ south
Longitude
142.84836° or 142° 50′ 54″ east
Open location code
6R34MR5X+Q8
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Mari—“Fly River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fly”
- Armenian: “Ֆլայ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Fly”
- Azerbaijani: “Flay çayı”
- Belarusian: “Флай”
- Breton: “Fly”
- Bulgarian: “Флай (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Флай”
- Catalan: “Riu Fly”
- Cebuano: “Fly River”
- Chinese: “弗萊河”
- Chuvash: “Флай”
- Croatian: “Fly”
- Czech: “Fly”
- Dutch: “Fly”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فلى”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Fly”
- Estonian: “Fly jõgi”
- Finnish: “Fly”
- French: “Fleuve Fly”
- French: “Fly”
- German: “Fly River”
- German: “Fly”
- Hebrew: “פליי”
- Hungarian: “Fly”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Fly”
- Irish: “Abhainn Fly”
- Italian: “Fly”
- Japanese: “フライ川”
- Korean: “플라이강”
- Latvian: “Flaja”
- Lithuanian: “Flajus”
- Malayalam: “ഫ്ലൈ നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fly”
- Norwegian: “Fly”
- Persian: “رودخانه فلای”
- Polish: “Fly”
- Portuguese: “Rio Fly”
- Romanian: “Râul Fly”
- Russian: “Флай”
- Russian: “Флиривер”
- Serbian: “Flaj”
- Serbian: “Fly”
- Serbian: “Река Флај”
- Serbian: “Флај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fly”
- Slovenian: “Fly River”
- Slovenian: “Fly”
- Slovenian: “reka Fly”
- Spanish: “Río Fly”
- Swahili: “Fly”
- Swiss German: “Fly”
- Turkish: “Fly Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Флай”
- Venetian: “Fiume Fly”
- Welsh: “Afon Fly”
- Western Mari: “Флай йогы”
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