Lake Naivasha
Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in Kenya, outside the town of Naivasha in Nakuru County, north west of Nairobi in the Great Rift Valley. The name derives from the local Maasai name ɛnaɨpɔ́sha, meaning "that which heaves," a common Maasai word for bodies of water large enough to have wave action when it is windy or stormy.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 1,881 metres (6,171 feet)
- …is also known as “Enaiposha”
- Description: lake in Kenya
Lake Naivasha
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
-0.76582° or 0° 45′ 57″ south
Longitude
36.35561° or 36° 21′ 20″ east
Open location code
6GFR69M4+M6
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lake Naivasha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيفاشا”
- Belarusian: “Найваша”
- Bhojpuri: “नाइवाशा झील”
- Bulgarian: “Найваша”
- Burmese: “နိုင်ဗရှာကန်”
- Catalan: “Llac Naivasha”
- Cebuano: “Lake Naivasha”
- Chinese: “奈瓦夏湖”
- Chinese: “奈瓦沙湖”
- Czech: “Naivasha”
- Danish: “Lake Naivasha”
- Danish: “Naivashasøen”
- Dutch: “Naivashameer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره نيفاشا”
- French: “lac Naivasha”
- French: “Lac Naivasha”
- Georgian: “ნაივაშა”
- German: “Lake Naivasha”
- German: “Naivasha-See”
- German: “Naivashasee”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Naivasha”
- Hebrew: “אגם נאיוואשה”
- Hungarian: “Naivasha-tó”
- Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri Naivasha”
- Indonesian: “Danau Naivasha”
- Italian: “lago Naivasha”
- Italian: “Lago Naivasha”
- Japanese: “ナイヴァシャ湖”
- Japanese: “ナイバシャ湖”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Naivasha”
- Korean: “나이바샤호”
- Latvian: “Naivašas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Naivaša”
- Macedonian: “Наиваша”
- Macedonian: “Најваша”
- Malayalam: “നൈവാഷ തടാകം”
- Persian: “دریاچه نایواشا”
- Polish: “Naivasha”
- Portuguese: “Lago Naivasha”
- Russian: “Наиваша”
- Russian: “Найваша”
- Serbian: “Најваша”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Naivaša”
- Somali: “Harada Naivasha”
- Spanish: “Lago Naivasha”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Naivasha”
- Swedish: “Naivashasjön”
- Tatar: “Найваша күле”
- Turkish: “Naivasha Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Найваша”
- Venetian: “lago Naivasha”
- Welsh: “Llyn Naivasha”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل نائیواشا”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل نائیواشہ”
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