Chelif River

Chelif River is a 700-kilometre-long river in , the longest in the country. It rises in the near the city of , flows through the and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of the city of .
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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

Latitude
36.04072° or 36° 2′ 27″ north
Longitude
0.13257° or 0° 7′ 57″ east
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
8F8224RM+72
Geo­Names ID
2501537
Wiki­data ID
Q772214
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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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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chelif River”. Photo: DamonaKing, CC BY-SA 2.5.