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| 143 | Adria | Named for the Adriatic sea. The city of Pola {see planet (142)}, at the time of discovery the chief |
| 180 | Garumna | Named for the Garonne river on which the city of discovery is situated. Garumna is the ancient name. |
| 364 | Isara | Isara is an early name of the Isère river which joins the Rhone river in southern France. (H 40) See |
| 770 | Bali | This planet was named after the Indonesian island east of Java. The discoverer repeatedly named plan |
| 980 | Anacostia | Named for an urban district in the city of Washington, D.C. and also for a river in the region. (H 9 |
| 1032 | Pafuri | Named for a river in northern Transvaal, South Africa. (H 98) |
| 1042 | Amazone | Named for the women of Scythia near the rivers Tanais and Thermodon. They had no men and joined with |
| 1149 | Volga | This planet is named for the large river in the European part of the USSR. (M 2740) Name proposed by |
| 1174 | Marmara | Named by the discoverer (RI 803) for the Marmara Sea which is connected with the Black Sea by the Bo |
| 1198 | Atlantis | This planet is named for the legendary island which sank. Name proposed by G. Stracke. |
| 1223 | Neckar | Named for the Neckar river which has its origin in the Black Forest, crosses the city of Heidelberg, |
| 1242 | Zambesia | The name applies to the former British territories in the Zambezi Basin, southern Africa. (H 114) |
| 1264 | Letaba | Named for a river in Transvaal, South Africa. (H 116) |
| 1266 | Tone | Named for the largest river in Japan. (H 116) |
| 1302 | Werra | Named for the German river which joins the Fulda at Münden to form the Weser. (H 119) |
| 1305 | Pongola | Named by the discoverer for a river in South Africa. (H 119) |
| 1317 | Silvretta | Named for a peak (3282 m) and a lake in Graubünden, Swiss Alps. (H 120) |
| 1323 | Tugela | Named after a river in Natal, South Africa. (H 121) |
| 1345 | Potomac | Named for the river on which Washington, D.C. is located. The river flows from West Virginia into th |
| 1381 | Danubia | Named for the great European river Danube (or Donau) flowing from southern Germany into the Black se |
| 1394 | Algoa | Name of a South African Bay which has historical associations. (M 909) |
| 1427 | Ruvuma | Name of the most important river in southern Tanganyika, now Tanzania. (M 909) |
| 1471 | Tornio | Named for a Finnish river and town at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia. (M 3928) |
| 1472 | Muonio | One of the principal rivers of Finland. (M 3928) |
| 1473 | Ounas | One of the principal rivers of Finland. (M 3928) |
| 1488 | Aura | Named for the river on which Turku stands. (M 3928) |
| 1490 | Limpopo | Name of the large river which flows round the northern edge of the Transvaal and through Portuguese |
| 1520 | Imatra | Named for a town in south-eastern Finland. (M 3929) |
| 1533 | Saimaa | One of the principal lakes of Finland. (M 3929) |
| 1534 | Nasi | One of the principal lakes of Finland. (M 3929) |
| 1535 | Paijanne | One of the principal lakes of Finland. (M 3929) |
| 1536 | Pielinen | One of the principal lakes of Finland. (M 3930) |
| 1641 | Tana | Named for a river in Kenya. |
| 1676 | Kariba | Named for a large manmade lake between Zambia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. |
| 1684 | Iguassu | Named for the large waterfall 60 meters high and more than 1 km wide on a river of the same name. Th |
| 1701 | Okavango | Named for a large river in southern Africa. It flows into a swamp of the same name in Botswana. The |
| 1779 | Parana | Named for a large river in northern Argentina, a major tributary to the La Plata {see planet (1029) |
| 1801 | Titicaca | Named for the large lake, at 3800 meters the highest in the world, that forms part of the border bet |
| 1914 | Hartbeespoortdam | Named for the lake in South Africa near which the Leiden Southern Observatory was located from 1957 |
| 1918 | Aiguillon | Named for the discoverer’s birthplace, a small town on the Garonne river. |
| 1929 | Kollaa | Named for a river in Karelia, scene of violent battles during the Finnish winter war. |
| 2066 | Palala | Named for a river, a tributary of the Limpopo, in the western Transvaal. |
| 2080 | Jihlava | Named for a Moravian town, by the river of the same name. Founded in the 11th century, the community |
| 2081 | Sazava | Named for a river in Bohemia, running from the Zdar Mountains into the Vltava {see also (2123)} sout |
| 2123 | Vltava | Named for the river on which the city of Prague is situated. |
| 2242 | Balaton | Named for the largest lake in Hungary, located in the western part of the country. (M 21605) Named b |
| 2321 | Luznice | Named for the small river running through the idyllic southern Bohemian countryside very close to th |
| 2403 | Sumava | Named for the mountains on the southern border of Bohemia in the vicinity of the Kleť Observatory. ( |
| 2501 | Lohja | Named for a town, ridge and lake in southern Finland. An important market in the Middle Ages, Lohja |
| 2567 | Elba | Named by the discoverers in memory of their mother, Elba Aguilera de Pizarro (1926–1965). (M 6835) |
| 2690 | Ristiina | Named for a country commune in the lake district of southern Finland. In 1968 over sixty prehistoric |
| 2774 | Tenojoki | Named for the border stream between Norway and Finland. (M 7948) |
| 2776 | Baikal | at Nauchnyj. Named for the large Siberian lake. (M 8543) |
| 3016 | Meuse | Named for the river, more than 900 km long, with its sources at Langres that flows through the citie |
| 3057 | Malaren | Named for the large Swedish lake between Stockholm and Uppsala. A souvenir of a relaxing shipboard e |
| 3182 | Shimanto | Named for the longest river in the discoverer’s home prefecture of Kochi {see planet (2396)}. (M 10 |
| 3380 | Awaji | Named for the largest island in the Seto inland sea in Japan. In Japanese mythology, this was the fi |
| 3883 | Verbano | Named after the lake, also known as Lake Maggiore, in Italy and Switzerland between the south spurs |
| 4126 | Mashu | Named for one of the lakes in Akan National Park, which is located in eastern Hokkaido, a one-hour d |
| 4227 | Kaali | Named for the place on the island of Saaremaa {see planet (4163)} where a meteorite impacted 2500 y |
| 4256 | Kagamigawa | Named for the river that flows through Kochi {see planet (2396)}, home town of the discoverer. (M 1 |
| 4289 | Biwako | Named for the largest lake in Japan, 235 km in circumference and up to 104 m in depth. Like the Dyni |
| 4460 | Bihoro | Named for the city, home of the first discoverer, at the junction of the Bihoro and Abashiri {see pl |
| 4670 | Yoshinogawa | Named for the longest river on Shikoku {see planet (4223)} island, flowing east-west for a distance |
| 4801 | Ohře | Named for a Czech river rising in Germany near the Czech border and continuing through the towns of |
| 4943 | Lac d'Orient | Named for the lake Lac de la Forět d’Orient, situated about 20 km east of the city of Troyes (in the |
| 5409 | Saale | Named for the river that originates in the Fichtelgebirge of Bavaria, runs not far from Tautenburg { |
| 5723 | Hudson | Named in honor of R. Scott Hudson (1959– ) of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scie |
| 5792 | Unstrut | Named for the Thuringian river that flows for 189 km from Eichsfeld {see planet (442)}, past the ca |
| 6247 | Amanogawa | Named for a river that runs through the Hokkaido town of Kaminokuni {see planet (5978)}. It is also |
| 6501 | Isonzo | Named for the river near which the town of Farra d’Isonzo and its observatory are located. Long know |
| 7671 | Albis | The Latin name for one of Europe's principal rivers, known in German as the Elbe and in Czech as the |
| 10379 | Lake Placid | A town in northern New York State in the U.S. that hosted the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Winter Games, La |
| 10735 | Seine | The Seine, a major river in France, rises on the Plateau de Langres, close to the city of Dijon. Fl |
| 11400 | Raša | Raša is a river in the Istrian peninsula. |
| 12357 | Toyako | Lake Toya (Toyako) is part of Shikotsu-Toya National Park in Hokkaido. |
| 12382 | Niagara Falls | Niagara Falls is the thundering cataract on the Niagara River between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and |
| 17936 | Nilus | Nilus is the Graeco-Roman personified god of the river Nile. The annual ebb and flow of the Nile spa |
| 29186 | Lake Tekapo | Lake Tekapo, located near the Southern Alps on New Zealand's South Island, is known for its breath-t |
| 37391 | Ebre | Ebre Observatory, taking its name from a nearby river, was founded by the Jesuits in 1904 in Roquete |
| 100936 | Mekong | The Mekong is a 4350-kilometre river flowing through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vi |