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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  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 22 metres (72 feet)
  • Description: river in Algeria
  • Also known as
    “Chlef”
    “Le Chelif Fleuve”
    “Oued Cheliff”
    “Oued Chlef”
    “Oued Ech Chlef”
    “Wad Sheliff”

Chelif River

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Latitude
36.04072° or 36° 2′ 27″ north
Longitude
0.13257° or 0° 7′ 57″ east
Open location code
8F8224RM+72
Geo­Names ID
2501537
Wiki­data ID
Q772214

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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: “Шэліф”
  • Bulgarian: “Шелиф”
  • Catalan: “Chelif”
  • Cebuano: “Oued Chelif”
  • Chinese: “契立夫河”
  • Chuvash: “Шелифф”
  • Czech: “Šelif”
  • Dagbani: “Chelif Mɔɣili”
  • Dagbani: “Chelif River”
  • 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”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Uruzi rwa Chelif”
  • Korean: “셸리프강”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Webiga 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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