Lake Tharthar
Lake Tharthar, and known in Iraq as Buhayrat ath-Tharthar, is an artificial lake created in 1956, situated 100 kilometers northwest of Baghdad between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Iraq
- Also known as: “Al Therthar Lacke”, “Ath-Tharthar Lake”, “Buhairat ath-Tharthar”, “Hawr Umm ar Rahhal”, “Mileh Tharthar”, “Milḩat ath Tharthār”, and “Umm ar Raḩḩāl”
Lake Tharthar
- Category: body of water
- Location: Al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Tharthar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Tharthar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة الثرثار”
- Arabic: “منخفض الثرثار”
- Belarusian: “Возера Тартар”
- Belarusian: “Тартар”
- Cebuano: “Buḩayrat ath Tharthār”
- Chinese: “塞尔萨尔湖”
- Chuvash: “Тартар”
- Czech: “jezero Tartar”
- Czech: “Tharthar”
- Dutch: “Lake Tharthar”
- Estonian: “Ath-Tharthari järv”
- Estonian: “Ath-Tharthāri järv”
- French: “Lac-reservoir du Thartar”
- French: “lac-réservoir du Thartar”
- French: “Lac-réservoir du Thartar”
- German: “Tharthar-See”
- Indonesian: “Danau Tharthar”
- Italian: “Buhayrat al-Thartar”
- Italian: “Buhayrat ath Thartar”
- Italian: “Buhayrat ath Tharthar”
- Italian: “Wadi Tharthar”
- Japanese: “サルサール湖”
- Latvian: “Buhayrat ath Tharthar”
- Latvian: “Tartāra ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Tartaro ežeras”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tharthar”
- Persian: “دریاچه ثرثار”
- Portuguese: “Lago Tharthar”
- Russian: “Вади-Тартар”
- Russian: “Тартар”
- Serbian: “Тартар”
- Slovenian: “Tatarsko zajezitveno jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Tharthar”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Тартар”
- Ukrainian: “Тартар”
- Urdu: “ثرثار جھیل”
- Venetian: “Buhayrat ath Thartar”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Tharthar”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tharthar”
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