Senegal River

The Senegal River; Wolof: Dexug Senegaal, Arabic: نهر السنغال, romanized: Nahr as-Siniġāl, French: Fleuve Sénégal) is a 1086-kilometre-long river in ; much of its length marks part of the border between and .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in West Africa
  • Also known as: Senegal

Senegal River

Latitude
15.91412° or 15° 54′ 51″ north
Longitude
-16.51614° or 16° 30′ 58″ west
Open location code
7C75WF7M+JG
Geo­Names ID
8617155
Wiki­data ID
Q3569
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Senegal River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Sénégalrivier
  • Arabic: سينغال (نهر)
  • Arabic: سينغال(نهر)
  • Arabic: نهر السنغال
  • Arabic: نهر السينغال
  • Arabic: نهر السينيغال
  • Armenian: Սենեգալ
  • Asturian: ríu Senegal
  • Asturian: Ríu Senegal
  • Bashkir: Сенегал
  • Basque: Senegal
  • Belarusian: Рака Сенегал
  • Belarusian: Сенегал
  • Belarusian: Сэнэгал
  • Bengali: সেনেগাল নদী
  • Bhojpuri: सेनेगल नदी
  • Breton: Senegal
  • Bulgarian: Сенегал
  • Catalan: Riu Senegal
  • Cebuano: Senegal River
  • Chinese: 塞內加爾河
  • Chinese: 塞内加尔河
  • Croatian: Senegal
  • Czech: Senegal
  • Danish: Senegal
  • Dutch: Sénégal
  • Egyptian Arabic: نهر السنجال
  • Esperanto: Senegalo
  • Estonian: Senegali jõgi
  • Fiji Hindi: Senegal Naddi
  • Finnish: Senegal
  • French: Fleuve Sénégal
  • French: Sénégal
  • Galician: Río Senegal
  • Georgian: სენეგალი
  • German: Bambotus
  • German: Nias
  • German: Senegal-Strom
  • German: Senegal
  • Greek: Σενεγάλης
  • Guarani: Ysyry Senegal
  • Hausa: Kogin Senegal
  • Hebrew: סנגל
  • Hindi: सेनेगल नदी
  • Hungarian: Szenegál
  • Icelandic: Senegalfljót
  • Ido: Fluvio Senegal
  • Indonesian: Sungai Senegal
  • Irish: Abhainn na Seineagáile
  • Italian: Senegal
  • Japanese: セネガル川
  • Kazakh: Сенегал өзені
  • Korean: 세네갈강
  • Latin: Senegalus
  • Latvian: Senegāla
  • Latvian: Senegālas upe
  • Lithuanian: Senegalas
  • Luxembourgish: Senegal
  • Macedonian: Сенегал
  • Malagasy: Sénégal (ony)
  • Malagasy: Sénégal
  • Malayalam: സെനഗൽ നദി
  • Marathi: सेनेगाल नदी
  • Mingrelian: სენეგალი (წყარმალუ)
  • Mingrelian: სენეგალი
  • N'Ko: ߛߣߍ߬ߜ߭ߊߟߌ߫ ߓߊ
  • Northern Frisian: Seenegal Struum
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Senegal (elv)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Senegal
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Senegalelva
  • Norwegian: Senegal
  • Nyanja: Mtsinje wa Senegal
  • Occitan (post 1500): Senegal
  • Persian: رود سنگال
  • Polish: Senegal
  • Portuguese: Rio Senegal
  • Romanian: Fluviul Senegal
  • Romanian: Senegal
  • Russian: Сенегал
  • Serbian: Сенегал
  • Serbo-Croatian: Senegal
  • Sindhi: سينيگال درياهه
  • Slovak: Senegal
  • Slovenian: Senegal
  • Spanish: Rio Senegal
  • Spanish: río Senegal
  • Spanish: Río Senegal
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⵙⵉⴼ ⵏ ⵙⵉⵏⵉⴳⴰⵍ
  • Swahili: Senegal
  • Swedish: Senegalfloden
  • Tamil: செனகல் ஆறு
  • Tatar: Сенегал (елга)
  • Tatar: Сенегал
  • Thai: แม่น้ำเซเนกัล
  • Turkish: Sénégal Nehri
  • Ukrainian: Сенегал
  • Urdu: دریائے سینیگال
  • Uzbek: Senegal
  • Venetian: Fiume Senegal
  • Vietnamese: Sông Sénégal
  • Waray (Philippines): Salog Senegal
  • Welsh: Afon Senegal
  • Welsh: Afon Sénégal
  • Wolof: Dexub Senegaal
  • Wolof: Wikipedia:Dexug Senegaal
  • Wu Chinese: 塞內加爾河
  • Yue Chinese: 塞內加爾河
  • सेनेगल नदी

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