Fly River

The Fly River is the third longest river on the island of , after the Sepik and , with a total length of 1,060 km. It is the largest by volume of discharge in , 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.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
  • Also known as: Birak River”, “Fly-rivier”, “Gower-rivier”, “Ok Birak”, “Pnyang River”, “Sungai Gower”, and “Wai Pnyang

Fly River

Latitude
-8.34059° or 8° 20′ 26″ south
Longitude
142.84836° or 142° 50′ 54″ east
Open location code
6R34MR5X+Q8
Geo­Names ID
2097392
Wiki­data ID
Q739751
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Satellite Map

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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: Рака Флай
  • Belarusian: Флай
  • Breton: Fly
  • Bulgarian: Флай (река)
  • Bulgarian: Флай
  • Catalan: riu Fly
  • 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
  • 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: Rio Fly
  • Spanish: Río Fly
  • Swahili: Fly
  • Swiss German: Fly
  • Tosk Albanian: Fly
  • Turkish: Fly Nehri
  • Ukrainian: Флай
  • Venetian: Fiume Fly
  • Welsh: Afon Fly
  • Western Mari: Флай йогы

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