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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: major river of southern Africa
- Also known as: “Gariep” and “Senqu River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alexander Bay and Oranjemund.
Alexander Bay
Alexander Bay is a town of 1,700 people in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, close to the border with Namibia and the Orange River mouth. It is near the southern end of the Namib desert, and is officially also the driest town in South Africa with an average annual rainfall of less than 51 millimetres.Oranjemund
Photo: Chtrede, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oranjemund is a mining town in the ǁKaras region of southern Namibia, located on the banks of the Orange River, on the border with South Africa. It is surrounded by vegetation maintained by the residents with grey water from the mines.
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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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Orange River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gariep”
- Afrikaans: “Groot Rivier”
- Afrikaans: “Grootrivier”
- Afrikaans: “Oranje Rivier”
- Afrikaans: “Oranje-rivier”
- Afrikaans: “Oranjerivier”
- Arabic: “نهر أورانج”
- Arabic: “نهر الأورنج”
- Armenian: “Օրանժ”
- Asturian: “Río Orange”
- Asturian: “Ríu Orange”
- Bashkir: “Оранж”
- Basque: “Orange ibaia”
- 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”
- Chinese: “橘河”
- Chinese: “橙河”
- Croatian: “Oranje”
- Czech: “Orange”
- Czech: “Oranje”
- Czech: “Oranžská řeka”
- Danish: “Floden Oranje”
- Danish: “Orange River”
- Danish: “Orange”
- Danish: “Orangefloden”
- Danish: “Oranje”
- Danish: “Oranjefloden”
- Danish: “Oranjerivier”
- Dutch: “Oranje”
- Dutch: “Oranjerivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اورانج”
- Esperanto: “Oranĝo”
- Estonian: “Oranje jõgi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Orange Naddi”
- Finnish: “Oranje-joki”
- Finnish: “Oranje”
- Finnish: “Oranjejoki”
- French: “Fleuve Orange”
- French: “Orange”
- French: “Rivière Orange”
- Galician: “Río Orange”
- Georgian: “ორანჟი”
- German: “Gariep”
- German: “Oranje-Fluss”
- German: “Oranje”
- Greek: “Οράγγης”
- Hausa: “Login Orange”
- Hebrew: “אורנג‘”
- Hebrew: “אורנג’”
- Hebrew: “נהר אורנג‘”
- Hindi: “आरेंज नदी”
- Hindi: “ऑरेंज नदी”
- Hindi: “ओरंज नदी”
- Hindi: “ओरेंज”
- Hungarian: “Oranje”
- Icelandic: “Óraníu-fljót”
- Igbo: “Gariep”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Orange”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Sengur”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Orange”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Oranye”
- Irish: “Abhainn Orange”
- Italian: “Fiume Orange”
- Italian: “Gariep”
- Italian: “Grootrivier”
- Italian: “Orange”
- Japanese: “オレンジ川”
- Kannada: “ಆರೆಂಜ್ ನದಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Oranj”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Orange”
- Kirghiz: “Оранж”
- Korean: “가리프강”
- Korean: “그루테강”
- Korean: “센쿠강”
- Korean: “오렌지강”
- Kurdish: “çemê Orange”
- Latin: “Aurantium flumen”
- Latvian: “Oranža”
- Lithuanian: “Oranjė”
- Lithuanian: “Oranžė”
- 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 Bokmål: “Oranjeelven”
- Norwegian: “Oranje”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Orange”
- Ossetian: “Оранжхуыз цæугæдон”
- Pedi: “Orange River”
- Persian: “رود اورنج”
- Persian: “رودخانه نارنجی”
- Polish: “Oranje”
- Portuguese: “Gariep”
- Portuguese: “Rio Orange”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Orange”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Oranje”
- Romanian: “Orange”
- Russian: “Оранжевая”
- Serbian: “Oranje”
- Serbian: “Наранџаста река”
- Serbian: “Орање”
- Serbian: “Сенку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oranje”
- Slovak: “Orange River”
- Slovenian: “Oranje”
- South Azerbaijani: “نارینجی چایی”
- Southern Dagaare: “Aŋkaa baa”
- Southern Dagaare: “Gariep”
- Southern Dagaare: “Senqu baa”
- Southern Sotho: “Senqu”
- Spanish: “Orange”
- Spanish: “Rio Orange”
- Spanish: “río Orange”
- Spanish: “Río Orange”
- Swahili: “Mto Oranje”
- Swahili: “Oranje”
- Swati: “Umfula we-Orange”
- Swedish: “Orange River”
- Swedish: “Orange”
- Swedish: “Oranjefloden”
- Swedish: “Oranjerivier”
- Tamil: “ஆரஞ்சு ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Оранж елгасы”
- Tatar: “Оранж”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำออเรนจ์”
- Tibetan: “ཨོ་ལན་ཀི་གཙང་པོ།”
- Turkish: “Turuncu Nehir”
- Ukrainian: “Оранж”
- Ukrainian: “Оранжева”
- Uzbek: “Oranj”
- Venetian: “Fiume Orange”
- Vietnamese: “Orange”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Orange”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Orange”
- Welsh: “Afon Orange”
- Welsh: “Afon Oren”
- Western Frisian: “Oranje rivier”
- Western Frisian: “Oranjerivier”
- Wu Chinese: “奥兰治河”
- Yue Chinese: “橙河”
- “ऑरेंज नदी”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Green Island and Oranjemund Airport.
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