East Africa
Kenya
Nakuru County

Lake Nakuru

Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley lakes, located at an elevation of 1,754 m above sea level. It lies to the south of , in the rift valley of and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Nakuru National Park.

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is one of ’s two Premium Parks, and is a birdlover’s paradise. It surrounds Lake Nakuru in the Central Rift Conservation Area in the region of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nakuru.

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is a city in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. It is the capital of County, and it is the fourth largest city in Kenya and the largest in the Rift Valley region.

Lake Nakuru

Latitude
-0.36308° or 0° 21′ 47″ south
Longitude
36.08854° or 36° 5′ 19″ east
Elevation
1,755 metres (5,758 feet)
Open location code
6GFRJ3PQ+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 16867395
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
184621
Wiki­data ID
Q849508
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Nakuru from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lake Nakuru” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة ناكورو”
  • Belarusian: “Возера Накуру”
  • Belarusian: “Накуру”
  • Bhojpuri: “नाकुरू झील”
  • Burmese: “နကုရုကန်”
  • Catalan: “llac Nakuru”
  • Catalan: “Llac Nakuru”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Nakuru”
  • Chinese: “納庫魯湖”
  • Chinese: “纳库鲁湖”
  • Chinese: “纳库鲁湖国家公园”
  • Chuvash: “Накуру”
  • Croatian: “Jezero Nakuru”
  • Croatian: “Nakuru”
  • Czech: “Jezero Nakuru”
  • Czech: “Nakuru”
  • Danish: “Lake Nakuru”
  • Danish: “Nakurusøen”
  • Dutch: “Lake Nakuru”
  • Dutch: “Nakurumeer”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Nakuru”
  • Finnish: “Nakurujärven kansallispuisto”
  • Finnish: “Nakurujärvi”
  • French: “lac Nakuru”
  • French: “Lac Nakuru”
  • French: “Parc national du lac Nakuru”
  • Georgian: “ნაკურუ”
  • Georgian: “ნაკურუს ტბა”
  • German: “Lake Nakuru”
  • German: “Nakuru-See”
  • German: “Nakurusee”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Nakuru”
  • Hebrew: “אגם נקורו”
  • Iban: “Danau Nakuru”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Nakuru”
  • Italian: “lago Nakuru”
  • Italian: “Lago Nakuru”
  • Italian: “Nakuru”
  • Japanese: “ナクル湖”
  • Japanese: “ナクル湖国立公園”
  • Kazakh: “Накуру көлі”
  • Korean: “나쿠루호”
  • Latvian: “Nakuru ezers”
  • Lithuanian: “Nakuru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Nakuru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nakurusjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Nakurusjøen”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਕੁਰੂ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه ناکورو”
  • Polish: “Nakuru”
  • Russian: “Накуру”
  • Serbian: “Накуру”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nakuru”
  • Spanish: “Lago Nakuru”
  • Swahili: “Lake nakuru”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Nakuru”
  • Swedish: “Lake Nakuru National Park”
  • Swedish: “Nakuru National Park”
  • Swedish: “Nakurusjön”
  • Swedish: “Nakurusjöns nationalpark”
  • Thai: “อุทยานแห่งชาติทะเลสาบนากูรู”
  • Ukrainian: “Накуру”
  • Ukrainian: “Озеро Накуру”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Nakuru”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Nakuru”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل ناکورو نیشنل پارک”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل ناکورو”
  • “नाकुरू झील”

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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 Nakuru”. Photo: Jasper1976, CC BY-SA 3.0.