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Jubba River

The 82nd longest river in the world

1,658 km

The Jubba River or Juba River (Somali: Webiga Jubba, fiume Giuba) is a river in southern Somalia which flows through the region of Jubaland. It begins at the border with Ethiopia, where the Dawa and Ganale Dorya rivers meet, and flows directly south to the Somali Sea, where it empties at the Goobweyn juncture. The Jubba basin covers an area of 749,000 km2 (289, 000 mi2). The Somali regional state of Jubaland, formerly called Trans-Juba, is named after the river.

Flows through: Ethiopia, Somalia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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