Lake Rukwa
Lake Rukwa is an endorheic lake located in the Rukwa Valley of Rukwa Region, Songwe Region and Katavi Region in southwestern Tanzania. The lake is the third largest inland body of water in the country.- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 801 metres (2,628 feet)
- …is also known as “Rukwa Lake”
- Description: lake in Songwe, Katavi and Rukwa Regions, Tanzania
Lake Rukwa
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Latitude
-8° or 8° south
Longitude
32.41667° or 32° 25′ east
Open location code
6G4J2C28+2M
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Lake Rukwa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rukwameer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة روكوا”
- Asturian: “Llagu Rukwa”
- Belarusian: “Руква”
- Bhojpuri: “रुकवा झील”
- Bulgarian: “Руква”
- Catalan: “llac Rukwa”
- Catalan: “Llac Rukwa”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Rukwa”
- Chinese: “魯夸湖”
- Chinese: “魯誇湖”
- Chinese: “鲁夸湖”
- Chuvash: “Руква”
- Croatian: “Rukwa”
- Czech: “Rukwa”
- Danish: “Rukwasøen”
- Dutch: “Rukwa Lake”
- Dutch: “Rukwameer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Rukva”
- Finnish: “Rukwa”
- Finnish: “Rukwajärvi”
- French: “lac Rukwa”
- French: “Lac Rukwa”
- Georgian: “რუკვა”
- German: “Rukwa-See”
- German: “Rukwasee”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Rukwa”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rukwa Lake”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ρούκουα”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Rukwa”
- Hebrew: “אגם רוקאה”
- Hungarian: “Rukwa-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Rukwa”
- Italian: “lago Rukwa”
- Italian: “Lago Rukwa”
- Japanese: “ルクワ湖”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Rukwa”
- Korean: “루크와호”
- Latvian: “Lake Rukwa”
- Latvian: “Rukva ezers”
- Latvian: “Rukvas ezers”
- Latvian: “Rukwa”
- Lithuanian: “Rukva”
- Lithuanian: “Rukvos ežeras”
- Luxembourgish: “Rikwaséi”
- Luxembourgish: “Rukwaséi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rukwasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Rukwasjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه روکوا”
- Polish: “Rukua”
- Polish: “Rukwa”
- Portuguese: “Lago Rukwa”
- Romanian: “Lacul Rukwa”
- Russian: “Руква”
- Slovak: “Rukwa”
- Somali: “Harada Rukwa”
- Spanish: “Lago Rukwa”
- Swahili: “Rukwa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa la Rukwa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Rukwa”
- Tswana: “Letsha la Rukwa”
- Twi: “Ɔtare Rukwa”
- Ukrainian: “Руква”
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