Lake Salisbury

Lake Bisina, also known as Lake Salisbury and Lake Bisinia, is a freshwater lake in eastern . It is a satellite lake of , which it drains into, and the two are to some extent directly connected by papyrus swamps.
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Latitude
1.65508° or 1° 39′ 18″ north
Longitude
33.94866° or 33° 56′ 55″ east
Open location code
6GHMMW4X+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lake Salisbury” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lake Bisina”
  • Chinese: “比西納湖”
  • Danish: “Bisinasøen”
  • Danish: “Lake Bisina”
  • Ganda: “Ennyanja Bisina”
  • Ganda: “Lake Salisbury”
  • German: “Bisinasee”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Bisina”
  • Hungarian: “Bisina-tó”
  • Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri Bisina”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Bisina”
  • Lithuanian: “Bisina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bisinasjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Bisinasjøen”
  • Somali: “Harada Bisina”
  • Spanish: “Lago Bisina”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Bisina”
  • Tswana: “Letsha la Bisina”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Bisina”

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