Lake Van
Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey. It lies in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey in the provinces of Van and Bitlis, in the Armenian highlands.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: largest lake in Turkey
- Also known as: “Gola Wanê”
Lake Van
- Categories: salt lake, tourist attraction, soda lake, tectonic lake, and body of water
- Location: Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Van” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة فان”
- Arabic: “بحيرة وان”
- Arabic: “وان”
- Armenian: “Ախթամարի լիճ”
- Armenian: “Արխեստիա”
- Armenian: “Վանա լիճ”
- Armenian: “Վանա”
- Asturian: “Llagu de Van”
- Azerbaijani: “Van gölü”
- Bashkir: “Ван”
- Basque: “Van aintzira”
- Basque: “Van”
- Belarusian: “Ван”
- Belarusian: “Возера Ван”
- Bengali: “ভান হ্রদ”
- Bosnian: “Van”
- Breton: “Lenn Van”
- Bulgarian: “Ван”
- Catalan: “Bznuniats”
- Catalan: “Llac de Van”
- Catalan: “llac Van”
- Catalan: “Llac Van”
- Catalan: “Van Golu”
- Catalan: “Van Gölü”
- Cebuano: “Lake Van”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی وان”
- Chinese: “凡湖”
- Chinese: “梵湖”
- Chuvash: “Ван”
- Crimean Tatar: “Van gölü”
- Croatian: “Van”
- Czech: “jezero Van”
- Czech: “Van”
- Czech: “Vanské jezero”
- Danish: “Van-søen”
- Danish: “Van”
- Danish: “Vansøen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Golê Wani”
- Dutch: “Meer van Van”
- Dutch: “Van Golu”
- Dutch: “Van Gölü”
- Dutch: “Van-meer”
- Dutch: “Van”
- Dutch: “Vanmeer”
- Eastern Mari: “Ван”
- Esperanto: “Lago Van”
- Esperanto: “Van-lago”
- Esperanto: “Van”
- Estonian: “Vani järv”
- Fiji Hindi: “Van Talaab”
- Finnish: “Van-järvi”
- Finnish: “Vanjärvi”
- French: “lac de Van”
- French: “Lac de Van”
- French: “Lac Van”
- Galician: “Lago Van”
- Georgian: “ვანი”
- Georgian: “ვანის ტბა”
- German: “Arsissa (name of northeastern part in antiquity)”
- German: “Derya Wane”
- German: “Derya Wanê”
- German: “Thospitis”
- German: “Van Gölü”
- German: “Van-See”
- German: “Vansee”
- German: “Wana lic”
- German: “Wana lič”
- Greek: “Βαν”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Βαν”
- Hebrew: “ימת ואן”
- Hindi: “वान झील”
- Hindi: “वेन झील”
- Hungarian: “Van-tó”
- Ido: “Lago Van”
- Indonesian: “Danau Van”
- Italian: “lago di Van”
- Italian: “Lago di Van”
- Italian: “Lago Van”
- Italian: “Van Gölü”
- Japanese: “ヴァン湖”
- Japanese: “バン湖”
- Japanese: “ワン湖”
- Kazakh: “Van köli”
- Kazakh: “Ван көлі”
- Kazakh: “ۆان كولى”
- Kirghiz: “Ван көлү”
- Kirghiz: “Ван”
- Korean: “반 호”
- Korean: “반호”
- Kurdish: “Behra Wanê”
- Kurdish: “Deryaçeya Wanê”
- Kurdish: “Gola Wanê”
- Kurdish: “گۆلا وانێ”
- Latin: “Arsissa palus”
- Latin: “Lacus Van”
- Latvian: “Gola Wanê”
- Latvian: “Van Gölü”
- Latvian: “Vana ezers”
- Latvian: “Vanas ezers”
- Latvian: “Wanê”
- Latvian: “Վանա լիճ”
- Lithuanian: “Vanas”
- Lithuanian: “Vano ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Ван”
- Malay: “Tasik Van”
- Malayalam: “Lake Van”
- Malayalam: “വാൻ തടാകം”
- Mingrelian: “ვანიშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Van-sjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vansjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Van Gölü”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vansjøen”
- Norwegian: “Vansjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac de Van”
- Ossetian: “Ван”
- Panjabi: “ਲੇਕ ਵਾਨ”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Persian: “درياچه وان”
- Persian: “درياچهٔ وان”
- Persian: “دریاچه وان”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ وان”
- Persian: “وان”
- Polish: “Jezioro Wan”
- Polish: “Van”
- Polish: “Wan”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Vã”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Van”
- Portuguese: “Lago Van”
- Romanian: “Lacul Van”
- Russian: “Ван”
- Russian: “Озеро Ван”
- Serbian: “Jezero Van”
- Serbian: “Van Gölü”
- Serbian: “Ван”
- Serbian: “Језеро Ван”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Van”
- Slovak: “Vanské jazero”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Van”
- Slovenian: “Van”
- Slovenian: “Vansko jezero”
- South Azerbaijani: “وان گؤلو”
- Spanish: “Lago de Van”
- Spanish: “Lago Van”
- Spanish: “Van Golu”
- Spanish: “Van Golü”
- Spanish: “Van Gölu”
- Spanish: “Van Gölü”
- Spanish: “Van”
- Sundanese: “Dano Van”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Van”
- Swedish: “Van Gölü”
- Swedish: “Vansjön”
- Tamil: “வான் ஏரி”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบวาน”
- Turkish: “Van Gölü”
- Turkmen: “Wan köli”
- Udmurt: “Ван”
- Uighur: “ۋان كۆلى”
- Ukrainian: “Ван”
- Urdu: “جھیل وان”
- Urdu: “وان جھیل”
- Uzbek: “Van”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Van”
- Volapük: “Lak di Van”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Van”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Van”
- Welsh: “Llyn Van”
- Western Armenian: “Վանայ լիճ”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل وان”
- Western Panjabi: “دیا باکر”
- Wu Chinese: “凡湖”
- Yue Chinese: “凡湖”
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