Cross River
Cross River is the main river in southeastern Nigeria and gives its name to Cross River State. It originates in Cameroon, where it takes the name of the Manyu River.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southeastern Nigeria
- Also known as: “Calabar”, “Cross Fleuve”, “Cross-Fluss”, and “Oyono River”
Cross River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cross River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Cross River”
- Arabic: “نهر كروس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Cross”
- Belarusian: “Крос (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Крос”
- Catalan: “Cross”
- Catalan: “riu Cross”
- Cebuano: “Cross River”
- Central Kanuri: “Cross River”
- Chinese: “克羅斯河”
- Czech: “Cross River”
- Czech: “Křížová řeka”
- Czech: “Manyu”
- Czech: “Oyono”
- Danish: “Cross River (flod)”
- Danish: “Cross River”
- Dutch: “Cross River”
- Esperanto: “Kros-rivero”
- Esperanto: “Kroso (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Kroso”
- French: “Cross”
- Fulah: “Cross River (Nigeria)”
- Fulah: “Cross River”
- German: “Cross River”
- Hausa: “cross river”
- Hausa: “Kogin Cross River (Najeriya)”
- Hausa: “Kogin Cross River”
- Hebrew: “נהר קרוס”
- Hindi: “क्रॉस नदी”
- Hindi: “क्रोश रिवर”
- Igbo: “Cross River (Nigeria)”
- Igbo: “Cross River”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Cross (Nigeria)”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Cross”
- Irish: “Abhainn Cross”
- Italian: “Cross”
- Japanese: “クロス川”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ರಾಸ್ ರಿವರ್”
- Kazakh: “Кросс (өзен)”
- Kazakh: “Кросс”
- Latvian: “Krosrivera (upe)”
- Latvian: “Krosrivera”
- Lithuanian: “Krosas (upė)”
- Lithuanian: “Krosas”
- Mingrelian: “კროსი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “კროსი”
- Northern Frisian: “Cross River (Struum)”
- Northern Frisian: “Cross River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cross”
- Persian: “رود کراس (نیجریه)”
- Persian: “رود کراس”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cross”
- Russian: “Кросс”
- Russian: “Манью (река)”
- Russian: “Ойоно”
- Sanskrit: “क्रोस् रिवर्”
- Slovenian: “Cross River”
- Slovenian: “Cross”
- Slovenian: “reka Cross”
- Spanish: “Cross (rio)”
- Spanish: “Cross (río)”
- Spanish: “Rio Cross”
- Spanish: “Río Cross”
- Swahili: “Mto Cross (Nigeria)”
- Swahili: “Mto Cross”
- Swedish: “Cross River”
- Ukrainian: “Крос”
- Welsh: “Afon Cross”
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