Rufiji River
The Rufiji River lies entirely within Tanzania. It is also the largest and longest river in the country. The river is formed by the confluence of the Kilombero and Luwegu rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Lufiji”
Rufiji River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Coast, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Rufiji River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rufijirivier”
- Asturian: “Ríu Rufiji”
- Belarusian: “Руфіджы”
- Bulgarian: “Руфиджи”
- Catalan: “Riu Rufiji”
- Catalan: “Rufiji”
- Cebuano: “Rufiji River”
- Chinese: “魯菲吉河”
- Chinese: “鲁菲吉河”
- Croatian: “Rufidži”
- Croatian: “Rufiji”
- Czech: “Rufiji”
- Danish: “Rufiji”
- Dutch: “Rufiji River”
- Finnish: “Rufiji”
- French: “Rufigi”
- French: “Rufiji”
- German: “Lufidschi”
- German: “Rufidschi”
- German: “Rufiji”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Ρουφίτζι”
- Greek: “Ρουφίτζι”
- Hebrew: “רופיג’י”
- Hindi: “रुफिजी नदी”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Rufiji”
- Irish: “Abhainn Rufiji”
- Italian: “Rufiji”
- Japanese: “ルフィジ川”
- Kazakh: “Руфиджи”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Rufiji”
- Kirghiz: “Руфижи”
- Korean: “루피지강”
- Kotava: “Rufiji (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Rufiji”
- Lithuanian: “Rufidžis”
- Malayalam: “രുഫിജി നദി”
- Mingrelian: “რუფიჯი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rufiji-elven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rufiji”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rufiji”
- Norwegian: “Rufiji”
- Polish: “Rufidżi”
- Polish: “Rufiji”
- Portuguese: “Rio Rufiji”
- Romanian: “Râul Rufiji”
- Russian: “Руфиджи”
- Russian: “Руфижи”
- South Azerbaijani: “روفیژی چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Rufiji”
- Spanish: “Río Rufiji”
- Spanish: “Rufiji”
- Swahili: “Mto Rufiji”
- Swahili: “Rufiji (mto)i”
- Swahili: “Rufiji”
- Swedish: “Rufiji”
- Swedish: “Rufijifloden”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำรูฟีจี”
- Ukrainian: “Руфіджі”
- Uzbek: “Rufiji”
- Venetian: “Fiume Rufiji”
- Welsh: “Afon Rufiji”
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