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 before flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 kilometres northwest of Hamburg.
- Type: Stream
- Description: major river in Central Europe
- Also known as: “Abhainn Elbe”, “Alba”, “Albim”, “Elva”, “Labe (suba sa Tsekya, Ústecký kraj)”, “rio Elba”, “río Elba”, “río Elva”, “Лабæ”, and “എൽബ്”
- Historically known as: “Elve”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Döse and Lotsenviertel.
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Elbe
- Categories: river, national waterways in Germany, and body of water
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
53.92222° or 53° 55′ 20″ north
Longitude
8.72222° or 8° 43′ 20″ east
Open location code
9F5CWPCC+VV
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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”
- Burmese: “အဲ့လဗမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Elba”
- Cebuano: “Elbe River”
- Cebuano: “Labe”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیلبە”
- Chinese: “易北河”
- Chuvash: “Эльба”
- Corsican: “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: “Albis”
- Latin: “Alpis”
- Latvian: “Elba”
- 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”
- Marathi: “एल्ब नदी”
- Mazanderani: “البه”
- Mingrelian: “ელბა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ელბა”
- Northern Frisian: “Ialew”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elben”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elbe”
- Norwegian: “Elben”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Elba”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ælf ēa”
- 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: “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: “Río Elba”
- Swahili: “Elbe”
- Swedish: “Elbe”
- Swiss German: “Elbe”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Elba”
- Tamil: “எல்பா ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Эльба”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเอ็ลเบอ”
- Turkish: “Elbe Nehri”
- Turkish: “Elbe”
- Ukrainian: “Ельба”
- 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”
- “Elbe”
- “nasin telo Epe”
- “एल्ब”
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