Lake Albert

Lake Albert, originally known as Lake Mwitanzige by the Banyoro, Nam Ovoyo Bonyo by the Alur, and temporarily as Lake Mobutu Sese Seko, is a lake located in and the .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “Albert Meer”, “Albert Nyanza”, “Bantu Lueru”, “Bentu Lueru”, “Lake Mobutu Sese Seko”, “Lake Mwitanzige”, “Luta Nzige”, “Muite Nzige”, and “Nam Ovoyo Bonyo”

Lake Albert

Latitude
1.66667° or 1° 40′ north
Longitude
31° east
Elevation
619 metres (2,031 feet)
Open location code
6GHHM282+M2
Geo­Names ID
220420
Wiki­data ID
Q125888
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Albert” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Albert-meer”
  • Afrikaans: “Albertmeer”
  • Ao Naga: “Mwitanzige”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة ألبرت”
  • Aragonese: “Laco Alberto (Africa)”
  • Aragonese: “Laco Alberto”
  • Armenian: “Ալբերտ”
  • Armenian: “Մվուտան Նզիգե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Albert gölü”
  • Bashkir: “Альберт”
  • Basque: “Albert lakua”
  • Basque: “Albert”
  • Bavarian: “Albertsee”
  • Belarusian: “Альберт”
  • Belarusian: “Альбэрт”
  • Bengali: “অ্যালবার্ট হ্রদ”
  • Bengali: “লেক আলবার্ট”
  • Bhojpuri: “अल्बर्ट झील”
  • Bosnian: “Albertovo jezero”
  • Breton: “Lenn Albert”
  • Bulgarian: “Алберт”
  • Burmese: “အဲလဘတ်ရေကန် (အာဖရိက)”
  • Burmese: “အဲလဘတ်ရေကန်”
  • Catalan: “llac Albert”
  • Catalan: “Llac Albert”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Albert”
  • Central Bikol: “Danaw Albert (Aprika)”
  • Central Bikol: “Danaw Albert”
  • Chinese: “艾伯特湖”
  • Chuvash: “Альберт”
  • Croatian: “Albertovo jezero”
  • Czech: “Albertovo jezero”
  • Czech: “Jezero Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • Danish: “Albertsøen”
  • Danish: “Lake Albert”
  • Dutch: “Albert Nyanza”
  • Dutch: “Albertmeer”
  • Dutch: “Mobutu Sese Seko-meer”
  • Dutch: “Mobutumeer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة ألبرت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة البرت”
  • Esperanto: “Albert-lago”
  • Esperanto: “Alberta lago”
  • Esperanto: “Albertlago”
  • Estonian: “Alberti järv”
  • Estonian: “Mobutu Sese Seko järv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Albert Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Albertinjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Albertjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Mobutujärvi”
  • French: “Albert Nyanza”
  • French: “lac Albert”
  • French: “Lac Albert”
  • French: “lac Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • French: “M’vouta-N’zighé”
  • French: “Lac Mobutu Sese Seko” (historical)
  • Galician: “Lago Alberte”
  • Galician: “Lago Alberto”
  • Ganda: “Ennyanja Mwitanzige”
  • Georgian: “ალბერტი”
  • German: “Albert Nyanza”
  • German: “Albertsee”
  • German: “Lac Congo”
  • German: “Lac Mobutu-Sese-Seko”
  • German: “Mobutu-Sese-Seko-See”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Αλβέρτου”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Albert (Africa)”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Albert”
  • Hebrew: “אגם אלברט”
  • Hindi: “ऐल्बर्ट झील”
  • Hungarian: “Albert-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Albertsvatn”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Albert”
  • Italian: “lago Alberto”
  • Italian: “Lago Alberto”
  • Italian: “Lago Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • Japanese: “アルバート湖”
  • Japanese: “アルベール湖”
  • Japanese: “アルベルト湖”
  • Japanese: “モブツ・セセ・セコ湖”
  • Japanese: “モブツ湖”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಬರ್ಟ್ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Korean: “앨버트호”
  • Latin: “Lacus Albertus (Africa)”
  • Latin: “Lacus Albertus”
  • Latvian: “Albert Nyanza”
  • Latvian: “Alberta ezers”
  • Latvian: “Alberta Ņanza”
  • Latvian: “Lake Albert”
  • Latvian: “Lake Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • Latvian: “Mobutu Sese Seko ezers”
  • Latvian: “Mobutu Seses Seko ezers”
  • Lingala: “Albert”
  • Lingala: “Alubɛ́”
  • Lingala: “Etímá Aloubè”
  • Lingala: “Lac Albert”
  • Lingala: “Lac Mobutu”
  • Lingala: “Mobutu”
  • Lithuanian: “Alberto ežeras”
  • Lithuanian: “Mobutu Sese Seko ežeras”
  • Lithuanian: “Mobutu Sesės Seko ežeras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Albertséi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mobutu-Sese-Seko-Séi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mwitanzige-Séi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mwutan Nzige”
  • Macedonian: “Алберт”
  • Macedonian: “Албертово Езеро”
  • Malayalam: “ആൽബർട്ട് തടാകം”
  • Mazanderani: “آلبرت دریاچه”
  • Mingrelian: “ალბერტი (ტობა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ალბერტი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Albertsjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Albert”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albertsjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Albertsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Albèrt”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਲਬਰਟ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “درياچه آلبرت”
  • Persian: “درياچهٔ آلبرت”
  • Persian: “درياچه البرت”
  • Persian: “دریاچه آلبرت”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ آلبرت”
  • Persian: “دریاچه البرت”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ البرت”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Alberta”
  • Polish: “Lac Albert”
  • Polish: “Lake Albert”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Alberto”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Albert”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • Russian: “Альберт (озеро)”
  • Russian: “Альберт”
  • Russian: “Виктория-Нианза”
  • Russian: “Мобуту-Сесе-Секо”
  • Russian: “Ньянза”
  • Russian: “Ньянца”
  • Russian: “Озеро Альберт”
  • Scots: “Loch Albert”
  • Serbian: “Albertovo jezero”
  • Serbian: “Албертово језеро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albertovo jezero”
  • Slovak: “Albertovo jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Albertovo jezero”
  • Spanish: “Albert Nyanza”
  • Spanish: “Lago Alberto”
  • Spanish: “lago Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Albert”
  • Swedish: “Albert Nyanza”
  • Swedish: “Albertsjön”
  • Swedish: “Lake Albert”
  • Swedish: “Mobutu Sese Seko-sjön”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்பர்ட் ஏரி”
  • Tamil: “ஆல்பெர்ட் ஏரி”
  • Tatar: “Альберт (күл)”
  • Tatar: “Альберт”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบอัลเบิร์ต (แอฟริกา)”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบอัลเบิร์ต”
  • Turkish: “Albert Gölü”
  • Turkish: “Albert Nyanza”
  • Turkish: “Mobutu Sese Seko Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Альберт”
  • Ukrainian: “Альберта озеро”
  • Ukrainian: “Альберта”
  • Ukrainian: “Мобуту-Сесе-Секо”
  • Urdu: “البرٹ جھیل”
  • Urdu: “البرٹ نیانزا”
  • Urdu: “جھیل البرٹ”
  • Urdu: “جھیل موبوٹو سیسی سیکو”
  • Uzbek: “Albert koʻli”
  • Venetian: “Lago Alberto”
  • Vietnamese: “Albert Nyanza”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Albert”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Mobutu Sese Seko”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Alberto”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Albert”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل ایلبرٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “艾伯特湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “艾伯特湖”
  • “अल्बर्ट झील”

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