Yukon River
The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in British Columbia, it flows through Canada's territory of Yukon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the Yukon Territory, Canada and Alaska, United States of America
- Also known as: “Jukchana River”, “Juna River”, “Kuigpak”, “Kuikpak”, “Kvikhpak River”, “Kvikhpakh”, “Kwichpack River”, “Kwichpak River”, “Kwigpak”, “Kwigpik”, “Kwikpak”, “Lewes River”, “Lewis River”, “Nig To”, “Nigato”, “Pelly River”, “Tth’echu‘”, “Yookkene”, “Yookuna”, “Yookuna Dode’o”, “Yookuna Don’a”, “Youcon River”, “Youkon River”, “Yucon”, “Yukon”, and “Yukwna”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nunam Iqua.
Nunam Iqua
Village
Nunam Iqua, formerly called Sheldon Point, is a city in the Kusilvak Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2010 census the population was 187, up from 164 in 2000. Nunam Iqua is situated 5 miles south of Yukon River.
Yukon River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kusilvak, Alaska, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yukon River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fleuve Yukon”
- Afrikaans: “Yukon River”
- Afrikaans: “Yukonrivier”
- Arabic: “نهر يوكون”
- Armenian: “Յուկոն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Yukón”
- Azerbaijani: “Yukon çayı”
- Bashkir: “Юкон”
- Basque: “Yukon ibaia”
- Basque: “Yukon”
- Bavarian: “Yukon River”
- Belarusian: “рака Юкатан”
- Belarusian: “Юкан”
- Bengali: “ইউকন নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “यूकॉन नदी”
- Bosnian: “Yukon”
- Breton: “Yukon”
- Bulgarian: “Юкон”
- Catalan: “Riu Yukon”
- Catalan: “Riu Yukón”
- Cebuano: “Yukon River”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری یووکان”
- Chinese: “Yukon Hô”
- Chinese: “育空河”
- Croatian: “Yukon (rijeka)”
- Croatian: “Yukon”
- Czech: “Řeka Yukon”
- Czech: “Yukon”
- Danish: “Yukon floden”
- Danish: “Yukon-floden”
- Danish: “Yukonfloden”
- Dutch: “Yukon River”
- Dutch: “Yukon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر يوكون”
- Esperanto: “Jukono”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Jukono”
- Estonian: “Yukoni jõgi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Yukon Naddi”
- Finnish: “Yukon”
- Finnish: “Yukonjoki”
- French: “Fleuve Yukon”
- French: “Rivière Yukon”
- French: “Yukon”
- Galician: “Río Yukon”
- Galician: “Río Yukón”
- Georgian: “იუკონი”
- German: “Fleuve Yukon”
- German: “Yukon River”
- Greek: “Γιούκον”
- Haitian: “Yukon”
- Hebrew: “יוקון”
- Hebrew: “נהר יוקון”
- Hindi: “युकोन नदी”
- Hungarian: “Yukon”
- Icelandic: “Júkon-fljót”
- Icelandic: “Júkonfljót”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Yukon”
- Irish: “Abhainn Yukon”
- Italian: “fiume Yukon”
- Italian: “Yukon River”
- Italian: “Yukon”
- Japanese: “ユーコン川”
- Kazakh: “Yukon”
- Kazakh: “Юкон”
- Kazakh: “يۋكون”
- Korean: “유콘강”
- Latin: “Iuconus”
- Latvian: “Jukona”
- Lithuanian: “Jukonas”
- Lombard: “Yukon”
- Low German: “Yukon”
- Macedonian: “Јукон”
- Malay: “Sungai Yukon”
- Malayalam: “യൂക്കോൺ നദി”
- Marathi: “युकॉन नदी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yukon Hô”
- Mingrelian: “იუკონი”
- Northern Frisian: “Yukon River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Innoko River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Innoko”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Koyukuk River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Koyukuk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nowitna River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nowitna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porcupine River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porcupine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yukon River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yukon”
- Norwegian: “Yukon”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Yukon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yukon”
- Ossetian: “Юкон (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Юкон”
- Panjabi: “ਯੂਕੋਨ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رود یوکون”
- Persian: “رودخانه یوکان”
- Polish: “Jukon”
- Portuguese: “Rio Yukon”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Yukon”
- Romanian: “Yukon River”
- Romanian: “Yukon”
- Russian: “Юкон (река)”
- Russian: “Юкон”
- Scots: “Yukon River”
- Serbian: “Jukon”
- Serbian: “Јукон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Yukon”
- Slovak: “Yukon”
- Slovenian: “Jukon”
- South Azerbaijani: “یوکان چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Lewes”
- Spanish: “Río Lewes”
- Spanish: “Rio Yukon”
- Spanish: “Rio Yukón”
- Spanish: “Río yukon”
- Spanish: “Río Yukón”
- Spanish: “Yukon River”
- Spanish: “Yukon”
- Spanish: “Yukón”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⵉⴼ ⵏ ⵢⵓⴽⵓⵏ”
- Swahili: “Mto Yukon”
- Swedish: “Fleuve Yukon”
- Swedish: “Kwiguk”
- Swedish: “Yukon River”
- Swedish: “Yukonfloden”
- Tagalog: “Ilog ng Yukon”
- Tagalog: “Ilog sa Yukon”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Yukon”
- Tamil: “யூக்கான் ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Юкон елгасы”
- Thai: “Yukon River”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำยูคอน”
- Turkish: “Yukon Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Yukon Nehri”
- Udmurt: “Юкон шур”
- Ukrainian: “Юкон”
- Urdu: “دریائے یوکون”
- Uzbek: “Yukon”
- Venetian: “Yukon”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Yukon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Yukon”
- Welsh: “Afon Yukon”
- Western Frisian: “Yukon”
- Western Mari: “Юкон”
- Wu Chinese: “育空河”
- Yue Chinese: “育空河”
- “यूकॉन नदी”
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