Rufiji River
The Rufiji River lies entirely within Tanzania. It is largest and longest river in the country, formed by the confluence of the Kilombero and the Luwegu river.
NASA, Public domain.- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 6 metres (20 feet)
- …is also known as “Lufiji”
- Description: river in Tanzania
Rufiji River
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Latitude
-7.91711° or 7° 55′ 2″ south
Longitude
39.2672° or 39° 16′ 2″ east
Open location code
6G4X37M8+5V
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Rufiji River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rufijirivier”
- Arabic: “نهر روفيجي”
- 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”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rufiji River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Ρουφίτζι”
- Greek: “Ρουφίτζι”
- Hausa: “Rafiji River”
- Hausa: “Rafin Rufiji”
- Hebrew: “רופיג’י”
- Hindi: “रुफिजी नदी”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Rufiji”
- Irish: “Abhainn Rufiji”
- Italian: “Rufiji”
- Japanese: “ルフィジ川”
- Kazakh: “Руфиджи”
- Kikuyu: “Rũũĩ rwa Rũbinji”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Rufiji”
- Kirghiz: “Руфижи”
- Korean: “루피지강”
- Kotava: “Rufiji (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Rufiji”
- Lithuanian: “Rufidžis”
- Malayalam: “രുഫിജി നദി”
- Mingrelian: “რუფიჯი”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Rufiji River”
- 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”
- Somali: “Webiga Rufiji”
- 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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