Khan River
The river Khan is an ephemeral river crossing the Erongo region of central Namibia. It is the main tributary of the Swakop River and only occasionally carries surface water during the rainy season from November to February/March.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Intermittent stream
- Description: river in Namibia
- Also known as: “Chan”
Khan River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Namibia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Khan River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Khan”
- Bavarian: “Khan”
- Cebuano: “Khan”
- Chinese: “坎河”
- Finnish: “Khan (joki)”
- Finnish: “Khan”
- Fulah: “Maayo Khan”
- German: “Khan-Rivier”
- German: “Khan”
- Greek: “Χαν”
- Irish: “Abhainn Khan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khan”
- Russian: “Кхан”
- Spanish: “Río Khan”
- Ukrainian: “Хан (притока Свакопа)”
- Ukrainian: “Хан”
- Venetian: “Fiume Khan”
- Welsh: “Afon Khan”
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