Sahel
Chad
Ennedi-Ouest Region

Lake Yoa

Lake Yoa is the most famous, and second largest, of the , a series of in Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region basin of northeastern .
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Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake
  • Also known as: “Lac Yoa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lakes of Ounianga.

Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a series of lakes in the Sahara Desert, occupying a basin in the mountains of West and Ennedi East in north-eastern Chad.

Lake Yoa

Latitude
19.05719° or 19° 3′ 26″ north
Longitude
20.50634° or 20° 30′ 23″ east
Elevation
379 metres (1,243 feet)
Open location code
7GF23G44+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 171261912
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
241485
Wiki­data ID
Q1313863
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Yoa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Yoa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة يوا”
  • Bulgarian: “Йоа”
  • Burmese: “ယိုအာကန်”
  • Catalan: “lac Yoa”
  • Cebuano: “Lac Yoa”
  • Chinese: “約阿湖”
  • Chuvash: “Йоа”
  • Dutch: “Lake Yoa”
  • French: “lac Yoa”
  • French: “Lac Yoa”
  • French: “Lac Yora”
  • French: “Yoa”
  • German: “Yoa See”
  • German: “Yoa-See”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Yoa”
  • Italian: “lago Yoa”
  • Italian: “Lago Yoa”
  • Japanese: “ヨアン湖”
  • Lithuanian: “Joa”
  • Polish: “Yoa”
  • Russian: “Йоа”
  • Spanish: “Lago Yoa”
  • Ukrainian: “Йоа (озеро)”
  • Ukrainian: “Йоа”
  • Venetian: “lago Yoa”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Yoa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Yoa”. Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.