Sankarani River
The Sankarani River is a tributary of the Niger River. Flowing northward from the Guinea Highlands of the Fouta Djallon in Guinea, it crosses into southern Mali, where it joins the Niger approximately 40 kilometres upstream of Bamako, the capital of Mali.
Sankarani River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in West Africa
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Guinea, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.01667° or 12° 1′ north
Longitude
-8.31667° or 8° 19′ west
Elevation
324 metres (1,063 feet)
Open location code
7C4H2M8M+M8
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Satellite Map
Discover Sankarani River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sankarani River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر سانكاراني”
- Arabic: “نهر سنكراني”
- Asturian: “Ríu Sankarani”
- Belarusian: “Санкарані”
- Bulgarian: “Санкарани”
- Catalan: “Sankarani”
- Cebuano: “Sankarani”
- Chinese: “桑卡拉尼河”
- Chuvash: “Санкарани”
- Czech: “Sankarani”
- Dagbani: “Sankarani Mɔɣili”
- Dagbani: “Sankarani River”
- Esperanto: “Sankarani (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Sankarani”
- Finnish: “Sankarani”
- French: “Sankarani”
- German: “Sankarani”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sankarani River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Sankarani”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Sankarani”
- Indonesian: “Sankarani”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Sankarani”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sankarani”
- Italian: “Sankarani”
- Japanese: “サンカラーニ川”
- Latvian: “Sankarani”
- Lithuanian: “Sankaranis”
- N'Ko: “ߛߊ߲ߞߊߙߊ߲ߣߌ߲߫ ߓߊ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankarani”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sancarani”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sankarani”
- Russian: “Санкарани”
- Somali: “Webiga Sankarani”
- Spanish: “Rio Sankarani”
- Spanish: “Río Sankarani”
- Swahili: “Mto Sankarani”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Sankarani”
- Welsh: “Afon Sankarani”
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