Orange River
The Orange River is a river in Southern Africa. It is the longest river in South Africa. With a total length of 2,432 km, the Orange River Basin extends from Lesotho into South Africa and Namibia to the north.
- Type: Stream
- Description: major river of southern Africa
- Also known as: “Afon Orange”, “Fleuve Orange”, “Floden Oranje”, “Fluviul Oranje”, “Gariep”, “Groot Rivier”, “Groote River”, “Grootrivier”, “Mto Oranje”, “Orange ibaia”, “Orangefloden”, “Oranjė”, “Oranje rivier”, “Oranje Rivier”, “Oranje-Fluss”, “Oranje-joki”, “Oranje-rivier”, “Oranjeelven”, “Oranžė”, “Osimiri Sengur”, “Rivière Orange”, “Senqu baa”, “Senqu River”, “Наранџаста река”, “Сенку”, “נהר אורנג‘”, “نهر الأورنج”, “ओरंज नदी”, “ओरेंज”, “가리프강”, “그루테강”, “센쿠강”, and “橘河”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alexander Bay and Oranjemund.
Alexander Bay
Alexander Bay is a town of 1,700 people in the…
Orange River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Siyathemba Local Municipality, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.63333° or 28° 38′ south
Longitude
16.45° or 16° 27′ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
5F3R9C8X+MX
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Orange River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oranjerivier”
- Arabic: “نهر أورانج”
- Armenian: “Օրանժ”
- Asturian: “Río Orange”
- Asturian: “Ríu Orange”
- Bashkir: “Оранж”
- Basque: “Orange”
- Belarusian: “Аранжавая”
- Bengali: “অরেঞ্জ নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “ऑरेंज नदी”
- Bosnian: “Oranje”
- Bosnian: “Rijeka Orange”
- Breton: “Oranjerivier”
- Bulgarian: “Оранжева река”
- Catalan: “Riu Orange”
- Cebuano: “Orange River”
- Chinese: “奥兰治河”
- Chinese: “奧蘭治河”
- Croatian: “Oranje”
- Czech: “Oranžská řeka”
- Danish: “Oranje”
- Dutch: “Oranjerivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اورانج”
- Esperanto: “Oranĝo”
- Estonian: “Oranje jõgi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Orange Naddi”
- Finnish: “Oranje”
- Finnish: “Oranjejoki”
- French: “Orange”
- Galician: “Río Orange”
- Georgian: “ორანჟი”
- German: “Oranje”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Orange River”
- Greek: “Οράγγης”
- Hausa: “Kogin Orange”
- Hebrew: “אורנג‘”
- Hebrew: “אורנג’”
- Hindi: “आरेंज नदी”
- Hungarian: “Oranje”
- Icelandic: “Óraníu-fljót”
- Icelandic: “Óraníufljót”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Orange”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Orange”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Oranye”
- Irish: “Abhainn Orange”
- Italian: “Orange”
- Japanese: “オレンジ川”
- Kannada: “ಆರೆಂಜ್ ನದಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Oranj”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Orange”
- Kirghiz: “Оранж”
- Korean: “오렌지강”
- Kurdish: “çemê Orange”
- Latin: “Aurantium flumen”
- Latvian: “Oranža”
- Lithuanian: “Oranžinė upė”
- Macedonian: “Орање”
- Malayalam: “ഓറഞ്ച് നദി”
- Mazanderani: “اورنج رایور”
- Mingrelian: “ორანჟი”
- Moroccan Arabic: “واد أورونج”
- Northern Frisian: “Oranje Struum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oranje”
- Norwegian: “Oranje”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Orange”
- Ossetian: “Оранжхуыз цæугæдон”
- Pedi: “Orange River”
- Persian: “رود اورنج”
- Persian: “رودخانه نارنجی”
- Polish: “Oranje”
- Portuguese: “Rio Orange”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Orange”
- Romanian: “Orange”
- Russian: “Оранжевая”
- Serbian: “Oranje”
- Serbian: “Орање”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oranje”
- Slovak: “Orange River”
- Slovenian: “Oranje”
- South Azerbaijani: “نارینجی چایی”
- Southern Dagaare: “Aŋkaa baa”
- Southern Sotho: “Senqu”
- Spanish: “río Orange”
- Spanish: “Río Orange”
- Swahili: “Oranje”
- Swati: “Umfula we-Orange”
- Swedish: “Oranjefloden”
- Tamil: “ஆரஞ்சு ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Оранж елгасы”
- Tatar: “Оранж”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำออเรนจ์”
- Tibetan: “ཨོ་ལན་ཀི་གཙང་པོ།”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Orange”
- Turkish: “Turuncu Nehir”
- Ukrainian: “Оранжева”
- Uzbek: “Oranj”
- Venetian: “Fiume Orange”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Orange”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Orange”
- Welsh: “Afon Oren”
- Western Frisian: “Oranjerivier”
- Wu Chinese: “奥兰治河”
- Yue Chinese: “橙河”
- “ऑरेंज नदी”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Green Island and Swartkop.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Green Island and Oranjemund Airport.
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Worth a closer look: Kimberley and Orania.
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