Sokoto River
The Sokoto River, is a river in north-west Nigeria and a tributary of the River Niger. The river's source is near Funtua in the south of Katsina State, some 275 kilometres in a straight line from Sokoto.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Nigeria and Niger
- Also known as: “Kebbi” and “Rima”
Sokoto River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Sokoto River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yoruba—“Sokoto River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Sokoto”
- Catalan: “Riu Sokoto”
- Catalan: “Sokoto”
- Cebuano: “Sokoto”
- Chinese: “索科托河”
- Chuvash: “Сокото”
- Dutch: “Sokoto”
- Esperanto: “Sokoto (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Sokoto”
- Estonian: “Sokoto jõgi”
- French: “rivière Sokoto”
- French: “Sokoto”
- Fulah: “Maayo Sakkwatoɓe”
- German: “Sokoto”
- Hausa: “Kogin Sokoto”
- Hausa: “rafin sokoto”
- Hausa: “Sokoto”
- Igala: “Sokoto river”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Sokoto”
- Igbo: “Sokoto River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sokoto”
- Italian: “Gublin Kebbi”
- Italian: “Sokoto”
- Japanese: “ソコト川”
- Lithuanian: “Sokotas”
- Malayalam: “സോകോട്ടോ നദി”
- Northern Frisian: “Sokoto River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sokoto”
- Polish: “Sokoto”
- Portuguese: “Rio Socoto”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sokoto”
- Romanian: “Sokoto”
- Russian: “Сокото”
- Slovenian: “Sokoto”
- Spanish: “Río Sokoto”
- Swahili: “Mto Sokoto”
- Ukrainian: “Сокото”
- Welsh: “Afon Sokoto”
- Yoruba: “Odo Sokoto”
- “Sokoto River”
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