Chelif River
Chelif River is a 700-kilometre-long river in Algeria, the longest in the country. It rises in the Saharan Atlas near the city of Boughezoul, flows through the Tell Atlas and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of the city of Mostaganem.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Algeria
- Also known as: “Chlef”, “Le Chelif Fleuve”, “Oued Cheliff”, “Oued Chlef”, “Oued Ech Chlef”, and “Wad Sheliff”
Chelif River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mostaganem Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Chelif River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chelif River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واد الشلف”
- Arabic: “وادي الشلف”
- Armenian: “Շելիֆ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Chelif”
- Basque: “Xelif”
- Belarusian: “Рака Шэліф”
- Belarusian: “Шэліф”
- Bulgarian: “Шелиф”
- Catalan: “Chelif”
- Cebuano: “Oued Chelif”
- Chinese: “契立夫河”
- Chuvash: “Шелифф”
- Czech: “Šelif”
- Danish: “Chelif”
- Dutch: “Cheliff”
- Dutch: “Chéliff”
- French: “Chelif”
- French: “Oued Chelif”
- German: “Cheliff”
- German: “Oued Chelif”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Σελίφ”
- Hausa: “Kogin Chelif”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Chelif”
- Irish: “Abhainn Chelif”
- Italian: “Chelif”
- Japanese: “シェリフ川”
- Japanese: “シュレフ川”
- Japanese: “チェリフ川”
- Lithuanian: “Šelifas”
- Macedonian: “Шелиф”
- Malayalam: “ഛെലിഫ് നദി”
- Mingrelian: “შელიფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chelif”
- Persian: “وادی الشلف”
- Polish: “Wadi asz-Szalif”
- Portuguese: “Rio Chelife”
- Romanian: “Râul Chelif”
- Russian: “Шелиф”
- Russian: “Шелифф”
- Serbian: “Челиф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chelif”
- Spanish: “rio Cheliff”
- Spanish: “río Cheliff”
- Spanish: “Río Cheliff”
- Swedish: “Chelif Oued”
- Ukrainian: “Шеліф”
- Urdu: “دریائے شلف”
- Welsh: “Afon Chelif”
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