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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: soda lake
- Also known as: “Rukwa Lake”
Lake Rukwa
- Categories: soda lake and body of water
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Rukwa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ρούκουα”
- Hebrew: “אגם רוקאה”
- Hungarian: “Rukwa-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Rukwa”
- Italian: “lago Rukwa”
- Italian: “Lago Rukwa”
- Japanese: “ルクワ湖”
- 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”
- Spanish: “Lago Rukwa”
- Swahili: “Rukwa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa la Rukwa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Rukwa”
- Ukrainian: “Руква”
- “रुकवा झील”
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