Lake Edward
Lake Edward is one of the smaller African Great Lakes. It is located in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, with its northern shore a few kilometres south of the equator.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Uganda and smallest of the African Great Lakes
- Also known as: “Albert Edward Nyanza”, “Edward Meer”, “Edward Nyanza”, “Lac Idi Amin”, “Lac Idi Amine”, “Lake Idi Amin Dada”, “Rutanzige”, and “Rwicanzige”
Lake Edward
- Category: body of water
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Edward” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Edwardmeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة إدوارد”
- Armenian: “Էդուարդ (լիճ)”
- Armenian: “Էդուարդ”
- Asturian: “Llagu Dubardu”
- Azerbaijani: “Eduard gölü”
- Basque: “Eduardo”
- Basque: “Edward lakua”
- Basque: “Edward”
- Belarusian: “Возера Эдвард”
- Belarusian: “Эдвард”
- Belarusian: “Эдўард”
- Bengali: “এডওয়ার্ড হ্রদ”
- Bhojpuri: “एडवर्ड झील”
- Bulgarian: “Едуард”
- Bulgarian: “Езеро Едуард”
- Burmese: “အက်ဒဝါ့ကန်”
- Catalan: “llac Eduard”
- Catalan: “Llac Eduard”
- Catalan: “Llac Edward”
- Cebuano: “Lake Edward”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Edward”
- Chinese: “愛德華湖”
- Chinese: “爱德华湖”
- Chuvash: “Эдуард”
- Czech: “Edvardovo jezero”
- Czech: “Edwardovo jezero”
- Czech: “Rutanzige”
- Danish: “Edwardsøen”
- Danish: “Lake Edward”
- Dutch: “Aminmeer”
- Dutch: “Eduardmeer”
- Dutch: “Edward Nyanza”
- Dutch: “Edwardmeer”
- Dutch: “Idi Aminmeer”
- Dutch: “Rutanzige”
- Dutch: “Rutanzigemeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة إدوارد”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة ادوارد”
- Esperanto: “Eduardo”
- Esperanto: “Laga Eduardo”
- Estonian: “Edwardi järv”
- Estonian: “Rutanzige järv”
- Estonian: “Rutanzige”
- Finnish: “Aminjärvi”
- Finnish: “Edwardinjärvi”
- Finnish: “Edwardjärvi”
- Finnish: “Idi Amin Dadan järvi”
- French: “Lac Amin”
- French: “Lac Edouard”
- French: “lac Édouard”
- French: “Lac Édouard”
- French: “Lac Edward”
- Galician: “Lago Eduardo”
- Ganda: “Ennyanja Edward”
- Ganda: “ennyanja mwitanzige”
- Ganda: “Ennyanja Rutanzige”
- Georgian: “ედუარდი”
- German: “Eduardsee”
- German: “Edwardsee”
- German: “Lake Edward”
- German: “Lake Rutanzige”
- German: “Rutanzigesee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Εδουάρδου”
- Hebrew: “אגם אדוארד”
- Hebrew: “אגם אידי אמין”
- Hebrew: “ימת אדוארד”
- Hindi: “ऍड्वर्ड झील”
- Hungarian: “Edward-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Edward”
- Italian: “Lago Edoardo”
- Italian: “lago Eduardo”
- Italian: “Lago Eduardo”
- Italian: “Lago Edward”
- Japanese: “イディ・アミン・ダダ湖”
- Japanese: “イディ・アミン湖”
- Japanese: “エドワード湖”
- Kannada: “ಎಡ್ವರ್ಡ್ ಸರೋವರ”
- Kazakh: “Édward”
- Kazakh: “Эдуард”
- Kazakh: “ەدۋارد”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Edward”
- Korean: “에드워드호”
- Latvian: “Edvarda ezers”
- Latvian: “Lake Edward”
- Lingala: “Laki Edward”
- Lingala: “Liziba Edward”
- Lithuanian: “Eduardo ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Edvardo ežeras”
- Luxembourgish: “Édouardséi”
- Luxembourgish: “Eduardséi”
- Luxembourgish: “Edwardséi”
- Macedonian: “Едвардово Езеро”
- Malayalam: “Lake Edward”
- Malayalam: “എഡ് വേഡ് തടാകം”
- Malayalam: “എഡ്വേഡ് തടാകം”
- Malayalam: “എഡ്വേഡ് തടാകം”
- Mazanderani: “ادوارد دریاچه”
- Mingrelian: “ედუარდი (ტობა)”
- Mingrelian: “ედუარდი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Edvardsjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Edward Nyanza”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Edward”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Edwardsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Edvardsjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Edoard”
- Panjabi: “ਐਡਵਰਡ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه ادوارد”
- Polish: “Jezioro Edwarda”
- Polish: “Lac Édouard”
- Polish: “Lake Edward”
- Portuguese: “Lago Eduardo”
- Russian: “Озеро Эдуарда”
- Russian: “Эдвард”
- Russian: “Эдуард”
- Serbian: “Edvardovo jezero”
- Serbian: “Едвардово језеро”
- Serbian: “Иди Амин Дада језеро”
- Serbian: “Иди Амин језеро”
- Serbian: “Језеро Иди Амин Дада”
- Serbian: “Језеро Иди Амин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Edwardovo jezero”
- Slovak: “Edwardovo jazero”
- Slovenian: “Edvardovo jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Eduardo”
- Spanish: “Lago Edward”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Edward”
- Swedish: “Edwardsjön”
- Swedish: “Lake Edward”
- Turkish: “Edward Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Едвард”
- Ukrainian: “Едварда озеро”
- Ukrainian: “Едуард”
- Urdu: “ایڈورڈ جھیل”
- Urdu: “جھیل ایڈورڈ”
- Urdu: “جھیل عیدی امین”
- Urdu: “عیدی امین جھیل”
- Venetian: “Lago Edoardo”
- Vietnamese: “Edward Nyanza”
- Vietnamese: “Edward”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Edward”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Edward”
- Welsh: “Llyn Edward”
- Wu Chinese: “爱德华湖”
- Yue Chinese: “愛德華湖”
- “एडवर्ड झील”
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