English word senses marked with place category "Rivers in Africa"
Parent categories: Rivers, Places, Africa, Bodies of water, Names, Earth, Landforms, Water, Nature, Liquids, Matter, Chemistry, Sciences
Total 18 word senses
- Blue Nile (Proper name) A state in southern Sudan.
- Casamance (Proper name) A river in West Africa.
- Congo (Proper name) A large river in Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Gambia (Proper name) A river in West Africa.
- Limpopo (Proper name) A river in Africa that rises near Johannesburg and flows about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
- Maputo (Proper name) A river in southeastern Africa.
- Niger (Proper name) A major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.
- Nile (Proper name) A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
- Nile (Proper name) Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, a township in Ohio, United States, named after the river.
- Okavango (Proper name) A river in southwestern Africa
- Orange River (Proper name) The longest river in South Africa.
- Ruzizi (Proper name) A river in Central Africa
- Save (Proper name) A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
- Ubangi (Proper name) A river in Central Africa, the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River.
- Volta (Proper name) Ellipsis of Volta River.: A river in West Africa, having given name to Upper Volta.
- White Nile (Proper name) One of the two main tributaries of the River Nile in Africa, which starts in Lake No and flows into the Nile at Khartoum.
- Zambesi (Proper name) A river in Southern Africa, which has its source in Zambia and flows into the Indian Ocean.
- Zambezi (Proper name) A river in Southern Africa, flowing south and west from Zambia through east Angola and Zambia and then east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
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