Benue River
Benue River, previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River. The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: tributary of the Niger River in Cameroon and Nigeria
- Also known as: “Benue”, “Benuë”, “Chadda River”, “River Benue”, and “Tchadda River”
Photo: Puncsos, Public domain.
Photo: Ashinze, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Obiok, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lokoja.
Lokoja
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Lokoja is the capital city of Kogi State, a state in North Central part of Nigeria. It is sited at the confluence of the rivers Niger and Benue.
Benue River
- Categories: river, watercourse, and body of water
- Location: Kogi State, North Central Nigeria, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Benue River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Benue River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Benuerivier”
- Arabic: “بنوي”
- Arabic: “نهر بنوي”
- Armenian: “Բենուե”
- Asturian: “Ríu Benue”
- Bashkir: “Бенуэ”
- Basque: “Benue ibaia”
- Basque: “Benue”
- Belarusian: “Бенуэ”
- Belarusian: “Бэнуэ”
- Belarusian: “Рака Бенуэ”
- Bosnian: “Benue”
- Bulgarian: “Бенуе”
- Catalan: “riu Benue”
- Catalan: “Riu Benue”
- Cebuano: “Benue River”
- Chinese: “貝努埃河”
- Chinese: “贝努埃河”
- Chuvash: “Бенуэ”
- Croatian: “Benue”
- Czech: “Benue”
- Danish: “Benue”
- Dutch: “Benue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بنوى”
- Esperanto: “Benue”
- Estonian: “Benue jõgi”
- Estonian: “Benue”
- Fiji Hindi: “Benue Naddi”
- Finnish: “Benue”
- French: “Benoue”
- French: “Bénoué”
- Fulah: “Maayo Benuwe”
- Galician: “Río Benue”
- Georgian: “ბენუე”
- German: “Bénoué”
- German: “Benue”
- German: “Benuë”
- German: “Bénué”
- German: “Binue”
- German: “Binuë”
- Hausa: “Benue”
- Hebrew: “בנואה”
- Hebrew: “נהר בנו”
- Hungarian: “Benue”
- Icelandic: “Benúe-fljót”
- Igbo: “Benue”
- Igbo: “Chadda River”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Benue”
- Igbo: “Tchadda River”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Benue”
- Irish: “Benue”
- Italian: “Bénoué”
- Italian: “Benue”
- Japanese: “ベヌエ川”
- Korean: “베누에강”
- Latin: “Benue”
- Latvian: “Benue”
- Lithuanian: “Benue”
- Lithuanian: “Benuė”
- Lithuanian: “Benujė”
- Malagasy: “Benue (ony)”
- Malagasy: “Benue”
- Malayalam: “ബെനുഎ”
- Mingrelian: “ბენუე”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benue”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benue”
- Norwegian: “Benue”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Benue”
- Obolo: “Okwaan̄ Benuwe”
- Persian: “بنوئه”
- Persian: “رود بنوئه”
- Polish: “Benue”
- Portuguese: “Rio Benue”
- Portuguese: “Rio Benué”
- Russian: “Бенуэ”
- Serbian: “Benue”
- Serbian: “Бенуе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bénoué”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Benue”
- Slovenian: “Benue”
- Spanish: “Rio Benue”
- Spanish: “Río Benue”
- Swahili: “Benue”
- Swahili: “Mto Benue”
- Swedish: “Bénoué”
- Swedish: “Benue”
- Swedish: “Benuefloden”
- Tatar: “Бенуэ”
- Turkish: “Benue”
- Tyap: “A̱ghyui Benuwe”
- Tyap: “A̱ghyui Binuwe”
- Tyap: “A̱ghyui Ca̱da”
- Ukrainian: “Бенуе”
- Urdu: “دریائے بینوے”
- Venetian: “Fiume Benue”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Benue”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Benué”
- Western Frisian: “Benue”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے بینوے”
- Wu Chinese: “贝努埃河”
- Yoruba: “Odò Benue”
- Yoruba: “Odò Bẹ́núé”
- Yue Chinese: “貝努埃河”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Atakpa and Numai.
Notable Places Nearby
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