Lake Assal
Lake Assal is a crater lake in central-western Djibouti. It is located at the western end of Gulf of Tadjoura between Arta Region, and Tadjoura Region, touching Dikhil Region, at the top of the Great Rift Valley, some 120 km west of Djibouti city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Salt lake
- Description: crater lake in Djibouti
- Also known as: “‘Asal”, “Lac `Assal”, “Lake Asal”, and “Mel-el-Assâl”
Lake Assal
- Categories: graben, endorheic lake, and body of water
- Location: Tadjourah Region, Djibouti, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Assal” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Assalmeer”
- Albanian: “Liqeni Assal”
- Arabic: “بحيرة عسل”
- Armenian: “Ասսալ լիճ”
- Azerbaijani: “Assal gölü”
- Basque: “Asal”
- Basque: “Assal aintzira”
- Basque: “Assal lakua”
- Basque: “Lac Asal”
- Basque: “Lac Assal”
- Belarusian: “Асаль”
- Belarusian: “Возера Асаль”
- Bengali: “আসাল হ্রদ”
- Bosnian: “Asalsko jezero”
- Bulgarian: “Асалско езеро”
- Burmese: “အက်ဆယ်ကန်”
- Catalan: “Llac Assal”
- Cebuano: “Lac ‘Assal”
- Chinese: “阿萨勒湖”
- Chinese: “阿萨尔盐湖”
- Chinese: “阿薩勒湖”
- Chuvash: “Ассаль”
- Czech: “Assal”
- Czech: “Jezero Assal”
- Dutch: “Assalmeer”
- Dutch: “Lac Assal”
- Esperanto: “lago Assal”
- Esperanto: “Lago Assal”
- Estonian: “Assali järv”
- Finnish: “Assaljärvi”
- French: “lac Assal”
- French: “Lac Assal”
- Georgian: “ასალის ტბა”
- German: “Assalsee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ασσάλ”
- Hebrew: “אגם אסאל”
- Hebrew: “אגם עסל”
- Inari Sami: “Assaljävri”
- Indonesian: “Danau Assal”
- Italian: “lago Assal”
- Italian: “Lago Assal”
- Japanese: “アッサル湖”
- Kazakh: “Асаль”
- Korean: “아살호”
- Latvian: “Asala ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Asalio ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Asalis”
- Macedonian: “Асалско Езеро”
- Mingrelian: “ასალი”
- Mingrelian: “ასალიშ ტობა”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ضاية عسل”
- Northern Sami: “Assaljávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Assalsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Assalsjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Assal”
- Persian: “دریاچه عسل”
- Polish: “Asal”
- Polish: “Assal”
- Polish: “Jezioro Asal”
- Polish: “Jezioro Assal”
- Portuguese: “Lago Assal”
- Romanian: “Lacul Assal”
- Russian: “Асал”
- Russian: “Асаль”
- Russian: “Ассал”
- Russian: “Ассаль”
- Russian: “Озеро Ассаль”
- Serbian: “Асал (језеро)”
- Serbian: “Асал”
- Skolt Sami: “Assaljäuʹrr”
- Spanish: “Assal”
- Spanish: “Lago Assal”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Assal”
- Swedish: “Assal-sjön”
- Swedish: “Assal”
- Swedish: “Assalsjön”
- Swedish: “Lac Assal”
- Tamil: “அசல் ஏரி”
- Tamil: “அசல்ஏரி”
- Turkish: “Asal Gölü”
- Turkish: “Assal Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ассаль”
- Ukrainian: “озеро Ассаль”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Assal (Djibouti)”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Assal”
- Welsh: “Llyn Assal”
- Western Armenian: “Ասալ լիճ”
- Yue Chinese: “阿薩勒湖”
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