Mackenzie River
The Mackenzie River is a river in the Canadian boreal forest and tundra. It forms, along with the Slave, Peace, and Finlay, the longest river system in Canada, the second largest drainage basin of any North American river after the Mississippi.- Type: Stream
- Description: largest river system in Canada
- Also known as: “Deh Cho”, “Dehcho”, “Kuukpak”, “Mackenzie (elv)”, and “Mackenzie (Severozápadní teritoria : řeka)”
Mackenzie River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
69.35° or 69° 21′ north
Longitude
-133.90564° or 133° 54′ 20″ west
Open location code
94X883XV+XP
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mackenzie River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mackenzierivier”
- Amharic: “ማኬንዚ ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “نهر ماكينزي”
- Armenian: “Մակենզի”
- Asturian: “Ríu Mackenzie”
- Bashkir: “Маккензи”
- Basque: “Mackenzie”
- Belarusian: “Макензі”
- Bengali: “ম্যাকেঞ্জি নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “मैकेंजी नदी”
- Bosnian: “Mackenzie”
- Breton: “Mackenzie”
- Bulgarian: “Маккензи”
- Catalan: “Mackenzie”
- Catalan: “Riu Mackenzie”
- Cebuano: “Fleuve Mackenzie”
- Chinese: “馬更些河”
- Chinese: “马更些河”
- Croatian: “Mackenzie”
- Czech: “Mackenzie”
- Danish: “Mackenzie River”
- Dutch: “Mackenzie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ماكينزى”
- Esperanto: “Makenzio”
- Estonian: “Mackenzie jõgi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Mackenzie Naddi”
- Finnish: “Mackenzie”
- French: “fleuve Mackenzie”
- French: “Mackenzie”
- Galician: “Río Mackenzie”
- Georgian: “მაკენზი”
- German: “Mackenzie River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Μακένζι”
- Hebrew: “מקנזי”
- Hindi: “मैकेन्ज़ी नदी”
- Hungarian: “Mackenzie”
- Icelandic: “Mackenziefljót”
- Ido: “Fluvio Mackenzie”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Mackenzie”
- Inuktitut: “ᒫᑭᓐᓯ ᑰᒃ”
- Irish: “Abhainn Mackenzie”
- Italian: “Mackenzie”
- Japanese: “マッケンジー川”
- Kazakh: “Макензи өзені”
- Kirghiz: “Макензи”
- Korean: “매켄지강”
- Latin: “Flumen Mackenzie”
- Latvian: “Makenzi”
- Lithuanian: “Makenzis”
- Lombard: “Mackenzie”
- Macedonian: “Мекензи”
- Malayalam: “മക്കൻസി നദി”
- Mingrelian: “მაკენზი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mackenzie”
- Norwegian: “Mackenzie”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Mackenzie”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mackenzie”
- Ossetian: “Маккензи (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Маккензи”
- Panjabi: “ਮਕੈਂਜ਼ੀ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رود مکنزی”
- Polish: “Mackenzie”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mackenzie”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Mackenzie”
- Romanian: “Mackenzie”
- Russian: “Маккензи”
- Scots: “Mackenzie River”
- Serbian: “Макензи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mackenzie”
- Sindhi: “ميڪينزي درياھه”
- Slovak: “Mackenzie”
- Slovenian: “Mackenziejeva reka”
- South Azerbaijani: “مکنزی چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Mackenzie”
- Swahili: “Mto Mackenzie”
- Swedish: “Mackenziefloden”
- Tamil: “மெக்கன்சி ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำแมกเคนซี”
- Turkish: “Mackenzie Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Макензі”
- Ukrainian: “Маккензі”
- Uzbek: “Makenzi”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mackenzie”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Mackenzie”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Mackenzie”
- Welsh: “Afon Mackenzie”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ میکینزی”
- Wu Chinese: “马更些河”
- Yue Chinese: “麥敬時河”
- “मैकेंजी नदी”
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Places to explore: Kittigazuit and Whitefish Station.
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Highlights: East Channel and Skiff Point.
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