Murchison Falls
Murchison Falls, also known as Kabalega Falls, is a waterfall in Uganda, located at the apex of Lake Albert on the White Nile. At the top of Murchison Falls, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks, only 7 m wide, and tumbles 43 m, before flowing westward into Lake Albert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Boschlech, Public domain.
Photo: Oliver Sedlacek, Public domain.
- Type: Locality
- Description: waterfall on the Nile in Uganda
- Also known as: “Kabarega Falls”
Murchison Falls
- Category: waterfall
- Location: Northern Uganda, Uganda, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Murchison Falls” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Murchison-waterval”
- Arabic: “شلالات مورشيسون”
- Bulgarian: “Мърчисън”
- Catalan: “cascades Murchison”
- Catalan: “Cascades Murchison”
- Cebuano: “Murchison Falls”
- Chinese: “默奇森瀑布”
- Czech: “Murchisonovy vodopády”
- Dutch: “Murchison Falls”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موركيسون فالس”
- Esperanto: “Murĉisona Akvofalo”
- Finnish: “Murchisonin putous”
- French: “Chutes Murchison”
- French: “Murchison Falls”
- Ganda: “Murchison Falls”
- German: “Kabalega Falls”
- German: “Murchison Falls”
- German: “Murchison-Fälle”
- German: “Murchisonfälle”
- Hausa: “Murchison Falls”
- Hebrew: “מפל מורצ’יסון”
- Hebrew: “מפל מרצ’יסון”
- Hebrew: “מפל קבלגה”
- Hungarian: “Murchison-vízesés”
- Indonesian: “Air Terjun Murchison”
- Italian: “cascate Kabarega”
- Italian: “cascate Murchison”
- Italian: “Cascate Murchison”
- Italian: “Murchison”
- Japanese: “マーチソン滝”
- Latvian: “Mērčisona ūdenskritums”
- Lithuanian: “Merčisono krioklys”
- Low German: “Murchison-Waterfall”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murchisonfallene”
- Norwegian: “Murchisonfallene”
- Persian: “مورچیسون فالز”
- Polish: “Kabalega Falls”
- Polish: “Kabarega Falls”
- Polish: “Murchison Falls”
- Polish: “Wodospad Kabalega”
- Polish: “Wodospad Kabarega”
- Polish: “Wodospad Murchisona”
- Polish: “Wodospady Murchisona”
- Portuguese: “Murchison Falls”
- Russian: “Кабарега”
- Russian: “Мерчисон”
- Serbian: “Мерчисон водопад”
- Slovak: “Murchisonove vodopády”
- Slovenian: “Kabalega Falls”
- Slovenian: “Kabarega Falls”
- Slovenian: “Murchison Falls”
- Slovenian: “Murchisonov slap”
- Slovenian: “Murchisonovi slapovi”
- Slovenian: “slapovi Kabalega”
- Spanish: “Cascadas Murchison”
- Spanish: “Cataratas Kabalega”
- Spanish: “Cataratas Murchison”
- Thai: “น้ำตกเมอร์ชิสัน”
- Turkish: “Murchison Şelaleleri”
- Ukrainian: “Мерчисон”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Murchison Falls”. Photo: Boschlech, Public domain.