Elbe
The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia, then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 kilometres northwest of Hamburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: major river in Central Europe
- Also known as: “Elba”, “Elbe River”, “Łaba”, “Labe”, and “Łobjo”
- Historically known as: “Elve”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Döse and Lotsenviertel.
Döse
Suburb
Photo: Tuxyso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Döse the northernmost town in Lower Saxony, Germany at the point where the River Elbe flows into the North Sea. It is a borough of the city Cuxhaven and a popular seaside resort. Döse is situated 5 km southwest of Elbe.
Lotsenviertel
Quarter
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Lotsenviertel is a quarter, which is situated 6 km south of Elbe.
Cuxhaven
Photo: Ralf Roletschek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cuxhaven is a seaside resort city in Lower Saxony, Germany on the mouth of the river Elbe on the North Sea coast. With roughly 3 million booked nights a year, it is one of the largest seaside resorts in Germany.
Elbe
- Categories: river, watercourse, national waterways in Germany, and body of water
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Elbe” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Elbe”
- Albanian: “Elba”
- Albanian: “Lumi Elba”
- Amharic: “ኤልበ ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “إلبه”
- Arabic: “نهر إلبه”
- Aragonese: “Río Elba”
- Armenian: “Էլբա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Elba”
- Azerbaijani: “Elba çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Elba”
- Bashkir: “Эльба”
- Basque: “Elba (Ibaia)”
- Basque: “Elba”
- Belarusian: “Лаба”
- Belarusian: “Рака Эльба (Raka Èlba)”
- Belarusian: “Эльба”
- Bengali: “লাবে নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “एल्ब”
- Bosnian: “Laba”
- Bosnian: “Łaba”
- Breton: “Elbe”
- Bulgarian: “Елба”
- Bulgarian: “Лаба”
- Burmese: “အဲ့လဗမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Elba”
- Cebuano: “Labe (suba sa Tsekya, Ústecký kraj)”
- Cebuano: “Labe”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیلبە”
- Chinese: “易北河”
- Chuvash: “Эльба”
- Corsican: “Elba”
- Croatian: “Elba”
- Croatian: “Laba”
- Czech: “Labe”
- Danish: “Elben”
- Dutch: “Elbe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر البه”
- Esperanto: “Elbo”
- Estonian: “Elbe”
- Fiji Hindi: “Elbe Naddi”
- Finnish: “Elbe”
- French: “Elbe”
- Galician: “Río Elba”
- Georgian: “ელბა”
- German: “Elbe (Fluss)”
- German: “Elbe”
- Gilaki: “البه”
- Greek: “Έλβας (Elbas)”
- Greek: “Έλβας”
- Hebrew: “אלבה”
- Hindi: “एल्वे नदी”
- Hungarian: “Elba”
- Icelandic: “Saxelfur”
- Ido: “Elbe”
- Indonesian: “Elbe”
- Interlingua: “Elba”
- Interlingue: “Elbe”
- Irish: “An Eilbe”
- Italian: “Elba”
- Japanese: “エルベ川”
- Kashubian: “Laba”
- Kashubian: “Łaba”
- Kazakh: “Эльба”
- Kirghiz: “Эльба”
- Korean: “엘베강”
- Kurdish: “Elbe”
- Ladin: “Elbe”
- Latin: “Alba”
- Latin: “Albis”
- Latin: “Alpis”
- Latvian: “Elba”
- Latvian: “Laba”
- Limburgan: “Elbe”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Elbe”
- Lithuanian: “Elbė”
- Lombard: “Elba”
- Low German: “Elv”
- Low German: “Elve”
- Lower Sorbian: “Łobjo”
- Luxembourgish: “Elbe”
- Macedonian: “Елба”
- Malagasy: “Elbe”
- Malay: “Sungai Elbe”
- Malayalam: “എൽബ് നദി”
- Malayalam: “എൽബ്”
- Marathi: “एल्ब नदी”
- Mazanderani: “البه”
- Mingrelian: “ელბა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ელბა”
- Northern Frisian: “Ialew”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elbe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elben”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elbe”
- Norwegian: “Elben”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Elba”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ælf ēa”
- Ossetian: “Лабæ”
- Ossetian: “Эльбæ”
- Persian: “البه”
- Persian: “رود البه”
- Piemontese: “Elba (fium)”
- Piemontese: “Elba”
- Polish: “Laba”
- Polish: “Łaba”
- Portuguese: “Rio Elba”
- Quechua: “Elba mayu”
- Romanian: “Elba”
- Russian: “Лаба”
- Russian: “Эльба”
- Rusyn: “Лаба”
- Saterfriesisch: “Elbe”
- Scots: “Elbe”
- Serbian: “Лаба”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Laba”
- Silesian: “Łaba”
- Sindhi: “لابي”
- Slovak: “Labe”
- Slovenian: “Laba”
- South Azerbaijani: “البه چایی”
- Spanish: “Elba”
- Spanish: “Elva”
- Spanish: “rio Elba”
- Spanish: “río Elba”
- Spanish: “Río Elba”
- Spanish: “río Elva”
- Swahili: “Elbe”
- Swedish: “Elbe”
- Swedish: “Labe”
- Swiss German: “Elbe”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Elba”
- Tamil: “எல்பா ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Эльба”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเอ็ลเบอ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Elbe”
- Turkish: “Elbe Nehri”
- Turkish: “Elbe”
- Ukrainian: “Ельба”
- Ukrainian: “Лаба”
- Upper Sorbian: “Łobjo”
- Urdu: “ایلب”
- Uzbek: “Elba”
- Venetian: “Fiume Elba”
- Veps: “El’b”
- Vietnamese: “Elbe”
- Vlaams: “Elbe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Elbe”
- Welsh: “Afon Elbe”
- Western Frisian: “Elbe”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے ایلب”
- Wu Chinese: “易北河”
- Yiddish: “עלבע”
- Yue Chinese: “易北河”
- “nasin telo Epe”
- “एल्ब”
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