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Atbarah River

river in Africa
Place river Q753897
Atbarah River
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Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
river

Location

Country
Ethiopia, Sudan[1][2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 12.421°, 37.085°, 🗺️ 17.678°, 33.972°

Population and size

Length
+1120[14]
More facts +6
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, Belarusian encyclopedia[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Discharge
+374[16]
Drainage basin
Nile basin[17]
Mouth of the watercourse
Nile[3]
Tributary
Tekezé River, Angereb River, Shinfa River[4][5][6]
Watershed area
+4[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Atbarah River en Atbara river en Red Nile en Black Nile en Atbara ar عطبرة (نهر) ar نهر عطبرة da Atbarah de Schwarzer Nil es Rio Atbara es Río Atbara fa رود عطبره he עטברה id Sungai Atbarah ja アトバラ川 ko 아트바라강 pl Atbara (rzeka) pt Rio Atbarah ro Atbara (râu) ro Râul Atbara
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
8144648169326049250
Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
atbara
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
155147700
Biblissima authority ID
Wikidata item
De Agostini ID
Atbara+(fiume)
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
3qeGGi
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
500444
Freebase ID
/m/039_ql
GNS Unique Feature ID
-604838
GeoNames ID
343242
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
atbara
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0005908
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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Atbarah_-_elv_i_Sudan
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1837130
Interlingual Index ID
i85098
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3872012
OpenStreetMap relation ID
5248309
Pleiades ID
805593
Topic's main category
Category:Atbarah River
ToposText place ID
148358WAst
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["River", "Atbara::sz3bs"]
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Addis_Ababa 2026-09-26 H/STM · ET GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Described by source 4
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Country 2
Ethiopia, Sudan
Tributary 2
Tekezé River, Angereb River
← Mouth of the watercourse 2
Tekezé River, Angereb River
Continent 1
Africa
Drainage basin 1
Nile basin
Instance of 1
river
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Nile
← FactGrid item ID 1
Aladiškės
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Upper Atbara and Setit Dam Complex
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Related Entities

Ethiopia Nile Sudan

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  1. 20h ago · Ueschar · 2026-11-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia +4
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #65737: pages 301-558"
  2. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 3qeGGi
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  3. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia +4
    Drainage basin → Nile basin
    Instance of → river
    Mouth of the watercourse → Nile
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #38692: Remove redundant P30, P17 is present"
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