Lake Magadi

Lake Magadi, also spelled Lake Magad, is a shallow soda lake in the southwest of the in northeastern , is often inhabited by thousands of mainly lesser flamingoes.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Tanzania
  • Also known as: Lake Magad

Lake Magadi

Latitude
-3.1933° or 3° 11′ 36″ south
Longitude
35.5357° or 35° 32′ 9″ east
Elevation
1,730 metres (5,676 feet)
Open location code
6G8QRG4P+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23562481
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
155390
Wiki­data ID
Q112204601
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Slovak—“Lake Magadi” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: 馬加迪湖
  • Czech: jezero Magadi
  • Esperanto: Lago Magadi
  • French: Lac Magadi
  • German: Magadisee
  • Italian: Lago Magadi
  • Slovak: jazero Magadi

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Magadi”. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.