Shari River
The Chari River, or Shari River, is a 1,400 kilometres long river, flowing in Central Africa. It is the main source of water of Lake Chad, which is located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon.
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- …lies at an elevation of 282 metres (925 feet)
- …is also known as “Chari River”
- Description: river in central Africa
Shari River
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Latitude
12.96689° or 12° 58′ 1″ north
Longitude
14.54759° or 14° 32′ 51″ east
Open location code
7F4PXG8X+Q2
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Shari River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sharirivier”
- Arabic: “شاري”
- Arabic: “نهر شاري”
- Asturian: “Ríu Chari”
- Azerbaijani: “Şari çayı”
- Basque: “Chari”
- Basque: “Xari”
- Belarusian: “Шары”
- Breton: “Chari”
- Bulgarian: “Река Шари”
- Bulgarian: “Шари”
- Catalan: “Chari”
- Catalan: “Riu Chari”
- Catalan: “Txari”
- Cebuano: “Chari River”
- Chinese: “沙里河”
- Croatian: “Chari”
- Czech: “Chari”
- Czech: “Šari”
- Danish: “Chari”
- Dutch: “Chari”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر شارى”
- Esperanto: “Chari”
- Esperanto: “Ŝari”
- Finnish: “Chari”
- French: “Bamingui”
- French: “Chari”
- Galician: “Río Chari”
- Georgian: “შარი”
- German: “Chari”
- German: “Schari”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Chari River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Shari River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Τσάρι”
- Guarani: “Ysyry Chari”
- Hausa: “Kogin Chari”
- Hausa: “Kogin Shari”
- Hebrew: “נהר צ’ארי”
- Hebrew: “נהר שארי”
- Hebrew: “צ’ארי”
- Hebrew: “שארי”
- Hindi: “चारी नदी”
- Hindi: “शारी नदी”
- Hungarian: “Chari”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Chari”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Shari”
- Irish: “Abhainn Chari”
- Italian: “Chari”
- Japanese: “シャリ川”
- Korean: “샤리강”
- Latin: “Shari”
- Latvian: “Šari”
- Lithuanian: “Šari”
- Lithuanian: “Šaris”
- Luxembourgish: “Schari”
- Malayalam: “ചാരി നദി”
- Mingrelian: “შარი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chari”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shari”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Charielva”
- Norwegian: “Chari”
- Panjabi: “ਚਾਰੀ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رود چاری”
- Persian: “رود شاری”
- Polish: “Chari”
- Polish: “Szari”
- Portuguese: “Rio Chari”
- Romanian: “Râul Chari”
- Russian: “Шари”
- Scots: “Chari River”
- Serbian: “Šari”
- Serbian: “Шари”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chari”
- Slovak: “Šari”
- Slovenian: “Šari”
- Somali: “Webiga Chari”
- Spanish: “Rio Chari”
- Spanish: “Río Chari”
- Swahili: “Chari”
- Swedish: “Chari”
- Swedish: “Shari”
- Tamil: “சாரி ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำชารี”
- Turkish: “Chari Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Шарі”
- Uzbek: “Shari”
- Venetian: “Fiume Chari”
- Vietnamese: “Chari”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Chari”
- Welsh: “Afon Chari”
- Welsh: “Afon Shari”
- Wu Chinese: “沙里河”
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