Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta or Okavango Grassland is a vast inland delta in Botswana formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an elevation of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari Desert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pavel Špindler, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Strait
- Description: river delta
- Also known as: “Okavango Grassland”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Okavango Delta
- Categories: river delta, body of water, watercourse, and inland delta
- Location: North-West District, Okavango-Chobe, Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Okavango Delta” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Okavangodelta”
- Arabic: “دلتا أوكافانغو”
- Asturian: “Delta del Okavango”
- Azerbaijani: “Okavanqo deltası”
- Basque: “Okavangoren delta”
- Belarusian: “Дэльта Акаванга”
- Belarusian: “Дэльта Акавангі”
- Bengali: “অকাভাঙ্গ”
- Bhojpuri: “ओकोवांगो डेल्टा”
- Bulgarian: “Делта на Окаванго”
- Bulgarian: “Окаванго”
- Catalan: “delta de l’Okavango”
- Catalan: “Delta de l’Okavango”
- Cebuano: “Delta de l’Okavango”
- Chinese: “奥卡万戈三角洲”
- Chinese: “奥卡万高三角洲”
- Chinese: “奧卡萬戈三角洲”
- Chinese: “奧卡萬戈沼澤”
- Croatian: “Delta Okavangoa”
- Czech: “delta Okavanga”
- Czech: “Delta Okavanga”
- Danish: “Okavangodeltaet”
- Dutch: “Okavango delta”
- Dutch: “Okavango moeras”
- Dutch: “Okavango-moerassen”
- Dutch: “Okavangodelta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دلتا اوكافانجو”
- Esperanto: “Delto de Okavango”
- Esperanto: “Okavanga Delto”
- Estonian: “Okavango delta”
- Finnish: “Okavangon suisto”
- Finnish: “Okavangon suoalue”
- Finnish: “Okavangon suot”
- French: “delta de l’Okavango”
- French: “Delta de l’Okavango”
- French: “Okawango Basin”
- Galician: “Delta do Okavango”
- Georgian: “ოკავანგოს დელტა”
- German: “Kavango-Becken”
- German: “Kavango-Delta”
- German: “Kavangobecken”
- German: “Kavangodelta”
- German: “Okavango Delta”
- German: “Okavango-Becken”
- German: “Okavango-Delta”
- German: “Okavangobecken”
- German: “Okavangodelta”
- German: “Okawango Basin”
- German: “Okawango Becken”
- German: “Okawango Delta”
- German: “Okawango-Becken”
- German: “Okawango-Delta”
- German: “Okawangobecken”
- German: “Okawangodelta”
- Greek: “Δέλτα του Οκαβάνγκο”
- Hebrew: “דלתת האוקבנגו”
- Hindi: “ओकावंगो डेल्टा”
- Hungarian: “Okavango-delta”
- Indonesian: “Delta Okavango”
- Italian: “Delta dell’Okavango”
- Italian: “Paludi dell’Okavango”
- Japanese: “オカヴァンゴ・デルタ”
- Japanese: “オカバンゴ・デルタ”
- Japanese: “オカバンゴ湿原”
- Japanese: “オカバンゴ湿地帯”
- Korean: “오카방고 델타”
- Korean: “오카방고 삼각주”
- Kotava: “Okavango riska”
- Lithuanian: “Okavango delta”
- Lithuanian: “Okavango pelkynai”
- Macedonian: “Делта на Окаванго”
- Malayalam: “ഒകവാൻഗോ ഡെൽറ്റ”
- Maltese: “Delta ta‘ Okavango”
- Maltese: “Delta ta’ Okavango”
- Mingrelian: “ოკავანგოშ დელტა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okavango-deltaet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okavangodeltaet”
- Norwegian: “Okavangodeltaet”
- Persian: “دلتای اوکاوانگو”
- Polish: “Delta Okawango”
- Portuguese: “Delta do Cubango”
- Portuguese: “Delta do Okavango”
- Romanian: “Delta Okavango”
- Romanian: “Delta Okawango”
- Russian: “Болота Окванго”
- Russian: “Дельта Окаванго”
- Scots: “Okavango Delta”
- Serbian: “Делта Окаванга”
- Serbian: “Окаванго речна делта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Delta Okavanga”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okavango”
- Slovak: “Delta Okavanga”
- Slovenian: “delta Okavanga”
- Slovenian: “Okavangova delta”
- Spanish: “Delta del Okavango”
- Swedish: “Delta de l’Okavango”
- Swedish: “Okavangodeltat”
- Swedish: “Okawango”
- Swedish: “Okawangodeltat”
- Swedish: “Okawangoträsken”
- Tamil: “ஓக்காவேங்கோ கடைமடை”
- Tatar: “Окаванго елгасы дельтасы”
- Thai: “ดินดอนสามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำโอคาวังโก”
- Tswana: “Okavango Delta”
- Turkish: “Okavango delta”
- Turkish: “Okavango Deltası”
- Ukrainian: “Дельта Окаванго”
- Ukrainian: “Дельта Окаванґо”
- Ukrainian: “Окаванго”
- Vietnamese: “Châu thổ Okavango”
- Vietnamese: “Đồng bằng Okavango”
- Western Panjabi: “اوکاوانگو ڈیلٹا”
- Wu Chinese: “奥卡万戈三角洲”
- “ओकोवांगो डेल्टा”
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