Tanana River
The Tanana River is a 584-mile tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to linguist and anthropologist William Bright, the name is from the Koyukon tene no, tenene, literally "trail river." Early explorer and naturalist to Alaska…
Photo: Chris 73, Public domain.- Type: Stream
- Description: left tributary of Yukon River in Alaska
- Also known as: “Ba’aaxe Tuu‘”, “Chisana River”, “Gen des Buttes River”, “Nabesna River”, “River of the Mountain Men”, “Tanan-na River”, “Tananah River”, “Tannanah River”, “Tenan”, “Tene No‘”, “Tenene”, “Tennanah River”, and “Tth’eetoo‘”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tanana Mission.
Tanana Mission
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tanana.
Tanana
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Tanana River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.16056° or 65° 9′ 38″ north
Longitude
-151.96028° or 151° 57′ 37″ west
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
Open location code
93QC526Q+6V
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Tanana River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر تانانا”
- Armenian: “Տանանա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Tanana”
- Basque: “Tanana”
- Belarusian: “Танана”
- Bulgarian: “Танана”
- Catalan: “riu Tanana”
- Catalan: “Riu Tanana”
- Catalan: “Tanana River”
- Cebuano: “Tanana River”
- Chinese: “塔納納河”
- Chinese: “塔納諾河”
- Chinese: “塔纳纳河”
- Chuvash: “Танана”
- Czech: “Tanana”
- Danish: “Tanana River”
- Dutch: “Tanana River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تانانا”
- French: “Tanana”
- German: “Tanana River”
- Hebrew: “טנאנה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tanana”
- Italian: “Tanana”
- Japanese: “タナナ川”
- Korean: “타나나강”
- Latin: “Flumen Tanana”
- Latvian: “Tanana”
- Lithuanian: “Tanana”
- Mingrelian: “ტანანა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ტანანა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanana”
- Norwegian: “Tanana”
- Persian: “رود تانانا”
- Polish: “Tanana”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tanana”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Tanana”
- Romanian: “Râul Tanana”
- Romanian: “Tanana River”
- Russian: “Танана”
- Serbian: “Танана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tanana (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tanana”
- Slovak: “Tanana”
- South Azerbaijani: “تانانا چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Tanana”
- Spanish: “Río Tanana”
- Turkish: “Tanana Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Tanana Nehri”
- Venetian: “Tanana”
- Welsh: “Afon Tanana”
- Western Frisian: “Tanana (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Tanana”
- “Tanana”
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