River Thames

The River Thames, or simply the Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in southern England
  • Also known as: “Abhainn na Tamaise”, “Isis”, “rio Tamesis”, “río Támesis”, “riu Tàmesi”, “Tamesa”, “Thames”, “Thames River”, “the River Thames”, “the Thames”, “Темза (река в Англии)”, “التايمز”, “الثيمز”, “نهر التايمس”, “نهر الثايمز”, “نهر الثيمز”, “টেমস”, and “টেমস নদী”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Coryton Power Station and London Gateway.

Power station
Photo: terry joyce, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 732 MW Combined Cycle Gas…

DP World is a port within the wider…

Photo: terry joyce, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was an oil refinery in Essex…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cliffe and Fobbing.

Village
is a village in the civil parish… is situated 2½ miles south of River Thames.

Village
Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the borough of in , England. is situated 2½ miles northwest of River Thames.

Village
Photo: Rjm at sleepers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the borough of in , England. is situated 3 miles northwest of River Thames.

River Thames

Latitude
51.49763° or 51° 29′ 52″ north
Longitude
0.50812° or 0° 30′ 29″ east
Open location code
9F32FGX5+36
Geo­Names ID
2636063
Wiki­data ID
Q19686
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“River Thames” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Teems”
  • Amharic: “ቴምስ ወንዝ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τάμεσα”
  • Arabic: “نهر التمز”
  • Aragonese: “Río Tamisa”
  • Armenian: “Թեմզա”
  • Asturian: “ríu Támesis”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Támesis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Temza çayı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Temza”
  • Balinese: “Tukad Thames”
  • Basque: “Tamesis”
  • Belarusian: “Тэмза”
  • Bengali: “টেম্‌স নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “टेम्स नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Temza”
  • Breton: “Tavoez”
  • Bulgarian: “Темза”
  • Burmese: “သိမ်းမြစ်”
  • Catalan: “Tàmesi”
  • Cebuano: “River Thames”
  • Central Bikol: “Salog Tamesis”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری تەمز”
  • Chinese: “泰晤士河”
  • Chuvash: “Темза”
  • Cornish: “Dowr Thames”
  • Croatian: “Temza”
  • Czech: “Temže”
  • Danish: “Themsen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Royê Temza”
  • Dutch: “Theems”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر التمز”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر التيمز”
  • Esperanto: “Tamizo”
  • Estonian: “Thames”
  • Fijian: “Uciwai Tamisi”
  • Finnish: “Thames”
  • French: “La Tamise”
  • French: “Tamise”
  • Galician: “Río Támese”
  • Georgian: “ტემზა”
  • German: “Themse”
  • Greek: “Τάμεσης”
  • Gujarati: “થેમ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “תמזה”
  • Hindi: “थेम्स नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Temze”
  • Icelandic: “Thames”
  • Ido: “Thames”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Thames”
  • Interlingua: “Tamese”
  • Inuktitut: “Thames”
  • Irish: “An Tamais”
  • Italian: “Tamigi”
  • Japanese: “テムズ川”
  • Javanese: “Kali Thames”
  • Jèrriais: “Riviéthe dé Londres”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹیمز دٔرؠ‌یاو”
  • Kazakh: “Темза”
  • Kirghiz: “Темза”
  • Korean: “템스강”
  • Kurdish: “Çemê Thames”
  • Ladin: “Thames”
  • Latin: “Tamesis”
  • Latvian: “Temza”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Thames”
  • Lithuanian: “Temzė”
  • Low German: “Thems”
  • Luxembourgish: “Themse”
  • Macedonian: “Темза”
  • Malay: “Sungai Thames”
  • Malayalam: “തേംസ്”
  • Manx: “Yn Thaimish”
  • Marathi: “थेम्स नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “تایمز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thames Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “თემზა”
  • Mingrelian: “ტემზა”
  • Mirandese: “Riu Tamisa”
  • Mongolian: “Тэмз мөрөн”
  • Nepali: “थेम्स नदी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Thems”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Themsen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Themsen”
  • Norwegian: “Themsen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tamèsi”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Temes”
  • Ossetian: “Темзæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਥੇਮਜ਼ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “تیمز”
  • Piemontese: “Tamis”
  • Polish: “Tamiza”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Tâmisa”
  • Quechua: “Thamis Mayu”
  • Romanian: “Tamisa”
  • Russian: “Темза”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Themse”
  • Scots: “River Thames”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Tamais”
  • Serbian: “Темза”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Temza”
  • Sicilian: “Tamiggi”
  • Sindhi: “ٽيمز درياھه”
  • Slovak: “Temža”
  • Slovenian: “Temza”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تیمز چایی”
  • Spanish: “Río Támesis”
  • Spanish: “Támesis”
  • Sundanese: “Walungan Thames”
  • Swedish: “Themsen”
  • Swiss German: “Themse”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Tamesis”
  • Tajik: “Дарёи Темза”
  • Tamil: “தேம்சு ஆறு”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำเทมส์”
  • Tibetan: “ཐེམ་ཟི་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Turkish: “Thames Nehri”
  • Tyap: “A̱ghyui Ta̱mit”
  • Ukrainian: “Темза”
  • Urdu: “دریائے ٹیمز”
  • Uzbek: “Temza”
  • Venetian: “Tamise”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Thames”
  • Vlaams: “Thems”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Thames”
  • Welsh: “Afon Tafwys”
  • Western Armenian: “Թէյմզ”
  • Western Frisian: “Teems”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریائے تھیمز”
  • Wu Chinese: “泰晤士河”
  • Yiddish: “טעמז”
  • Yue Chinese: “泰晤士河”
  • Zhuang: “Dah Thames”
  • Zhuang: “Dahdaivuzswhoz”
  • Zulu: “Umfula Thames”
  • “टेम्स नदी”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “River Thames”.

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Thames Haven and Shell Haven.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: London Gateway and Horseshoes Bay.

England: Must-Visit Destinations

Worth a closer look: London and Manchester.

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