Yukon River

The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in , it flows through Canada's territory of .
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Photo: Anthony DeLorenzo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in the Yukon Territory, Canada and Alaska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “fiume Yukon”, “Ilog ng Yukon”, “Ilog sa Yukon”, “Innoko”, “Innoko River”, “Jukchana River”, “Juna River”, “Koyukuk”, “Koyukuk River”, “Kuigpak”, “Kuikpak”, “Kvikhpak River”, “Kvikhpakh”, “Kwichpack River”, “Kwichpak River”, “Kwigpak”, “Kwigpik”, “Kwiguk”, “Kwikpak”, “Lewes River”, “Lewis River”, “Nig To”, “Nigato”, “Nowitna”, “Nowitna River”, “Pelly River”, “Porcupine”, “Porcupine River”, “Řeka Yukon”, “Rio Lewes”, “Río Lewes”, “Rio Yukón”, “Río yukon”, “Riu Yukón”, “Rivero Jukono”, “Rivière Yukon”, “Tth’echu‘”, “Yookkene”, “Yookuna”, “Yookuna Dode’o”, “Yookuna Don’a”, “Youcon River”, “Youkon River”, “Yucon”, “Yukon floden”, “Yukon Irmağı”, “Yukon-floden”, “Yukonjoki”, “Yukwna”, “Юкон (река)”, and “נהר יוקון”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nunam Iqua.

Village
, formerly called Sheldon Point, is a city… is situated 5 miles south of Yukon River.

Yukon River

Latitude
62.59861° or 62° 35′ 55″ north
Longitude
-164.8° or 164° 48′ west
Open location code
92JQH5XX+CX
Geo­Names ID
5878555
Wiki­data ID
Q104437
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yukon River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yukonrivier”
  • Arabic: “نهر يوكون”
  • Armenian: “Յուկոն”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Yukón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yukon çayı”
  • Bashkir: “Юкон”
  • Basque: “Yukon ibaia”
  • Basque: “Yukon”
  • Bavarian: “Yukon River”
  • Belarusian: “Юкан”
  • Bengali: “ইউকন নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “यूकॉन नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Yukon”
  • Breton: “Yukon”
  • Bulgarian: “Юкон”
  • Catalan: “Riu Yukon”
  • Cebuano: “Yukon River”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری یووکان”
  • Chinese: “育空河”
  • Croatian: “Yukon (rijeka)”
  • Croatian: “Yukon”
  • Czech: “Yukon”
  • Danish: “Yukonfloden”
  • Dutch: “Yukon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر يوكون”
  • Esperanto: “Jukono”
  • Estonian: “Yukoni jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Yukon Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Yukon”
  • French: “Fleuve Yukon”
  • French: “Yukon”
  • Galician: “Río Yukon”
  • Galician: “Río Yukón”
  • Georgian: “იუკონი”
  • German: “Yukon River”
  • Greek: “Γιούκον”
  • Haitian: “Yukon”
  • Hebrew: “יוקון”
  • Hindi: “युकोन नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Yukon”
  • Icelandic: “Júkon-fljót”
  • Icelandic: “Júkonfljót”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Yukon”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Yukon”
  • 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: “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”
  • Russian: “Юкон”
  • Scots: “Yukon River”
  • Serbian: “Jukon”
  • Serbian: “Јукон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yukon”
  • Sindhi: “يوڪون درياھه”
  • Slovak: “Yukon”
  • Slovenian: “Jukon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یوکان چایی”
  • Spanish: “Río Yukón”
  • Spanish: “Yukón”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⵉⴼ ⵏ ⵢⵓⴽⵓⵏ”
  • Swahili: “Mto Yukon”
  • Swedish: “Yukonfloden”
  • Tagalog: “Ilog Yukon”
  • Tamil: “யூக்கான் ஆறு”
  • Tatar: “Юкон елгасы”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำยูคอน”
  • Turkish: “Yukon Nehri”
  • Udmurt: “Юкон шур”
  • Ukrainian: “Юкон”
  • Urdu: “دریائے یوکون”
  • Uzbek: “Yukon”
  • Venetian: “Yukon”
  • Vietnamese: “sông 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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