Saar
The Saar is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in France and Germany
- Also known as: “La Sarre Rivière”, “Râul Saar”, “rio Saar”, “Rio Saar”, “río Saar”, “rio Sarre”, “río Sarre”, “Riu Saar”, “Riu Sarre”, “Rote Saar”, “Saar River”, “Saartal”, “Sarre blanche”, “Sarre ibaia”, “Weiße Saar”, “Ζάαρ”, “Заар”, “Зар”, “Река Сар”, and “סאר (נהר)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Igel Column and Konz.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Konz and Igel.
Igel
Village
Photo: William Pars, Public domain.Wasserliesch
Village
Saar
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.7° or 49° 42′ north
Longitude
6.56667° or 6° 34′ east
Elevation
134 metres (440 feet)
Open location code
8FX8MHX8+XM
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Saar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر السار”
- Armenian: “Սաար”
- Asturian: “Ríu Saar”
- Basque: “Sarre”
- Belarusian: “Саар”
- Bosnian: “Saar”
- Breton: “Saar”
- Bulgarian: “Саар”
- Catalan: “Saar”
- Cebuano: “Saar River”
- Chinese: “萨尔河”
- Chinese: “薩爾河”
- Czech: “Sára”
- Danish: “Saar”
- Dutch: “Saar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر السار”
- Esperanto: “Saro”
- Estonian: “Saari jõgi”
- Finnish: “Saar”
- French: “Sarre”
- Galician: “Río Saar”
- German: “Saar”
- Greek: “Σάαρ”
- Hebrew: “סאר”
- Hindi: “ज़ार नदी”
- Hungarian: “Saar”
- Irish: “Saar”
- Italian: “Saar”
- Japanese: “ザール川”
- Korean: “자르강”
- Latin: “Saravus”
- Latvian: “Zāra”
- Lithuanian: “Saras”
- Luxembourgish: “Saar”
- Macedonian: “Сар”
- Mazanderani: “زار روخنه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saar”
- Norwegian: “Saar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sarre”
- Persian: “زار”
- Polish: “Saara”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sarre”
- Romanian: “Saar”
- Russian: “Саар (река, приток Мозеля)”
- Russian: “Саар”
- Serbian: “Sar”
- Serbian: “Сар”
- Spanish: “Río Sarre”
- Spanish: “Sarre”
- Swedish: “Saar”
- Swiss German: “Saar”
- Turkish: “Saar Nehri”
- Udmurt: “Саар”
- Ukrainian: “Саар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Saar”
- Venetian: “Fiume Sarre”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Saar”
- Welsh: “Afon Saar”
- Western Frisian: “Saar (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Saar”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Konz and Reinig.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Konz Mitte and Kreuz Konz.
Germany: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Berlin and Munich.
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