Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz, is the second largest lake in Turkey with its 1,665 km2 surface area and one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world. It is located in the Central Anatolia Region, 105 km northeast of Konya, 150 km south-southeast of Ankara and 57 km northwest of Aksaray.
NASA, Public domain.- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 905 metres (2,969 feet)
- …is also known as “Palus Tattaeus”
- Description: endorheic basin
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Latitude
38.72044° or 38° 43′ 14″ north
Longitude
33.38254° or 33° 22′ 57″ east
Open location code
8GCMP9CM+52
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yakut—“Lake Tuz” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Liqeni Tuz”
- Arabic: “بحيرة طوز”
- Armenian: “Թուզ լիճ”
- Armenian: “Տուզ Գյոլյու”
- Azerbaijani: “Tuz gölü”
- Belarusian: “Туз”
- Bulgarian: “Туз”
- Catalan: “Llac de la Sal”
- Catalan: “Llac Tuz”
- Catalan: “Tuz Gölü”
- Cebuano: “Lake Tuz”
- Chinese: “图兹湖”
- Chinese: “圖茲湖”
- Chuvash: “Туз”
- Czech: “Tuz Gölü”
- Czech: “Tuz”
- Danish: “Tuzsøen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Golê Sole”
- Dutch: “Tuz Gölü”
- Dutch: “Tuz Meer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Tuz”
- Estonian: “Tuz”
- Estonian: “Tuzi järv”
- Finnish: “Tuz Gölü”
- Finnish: “Tuz”
- Finnish: “Tuzinjärvi”
- Finnish: “Tuzjärvi”
- French: “Lac Tuz”
- Georgian: “თუზი”
- Georgian: “თუზის ტბა”
- German: “Tuz Gölü”
- Greek: “Αλμυρή Λίμνη”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Τουζ”
- Hebrew: “ימת טוז”
- Hungarian: “Tuz-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Tuz”
- Italian: “Lago Salato”
- Italian: “Tuz Gölü”
- Japanese: “トゥズ湖”
- Kazakh: “Tuz köli”
- Kazakh: “Тұз көлі”
- Kazakh: “تۇز كولى”
- Korean: “투즈호”
- Kurdish: “Gola Xwê”
- Latvian: “Tuz Gölü”
- Latvian: “Tuza ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Tūzo ežeras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuzsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tuzsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Tuzsjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه توز”
- Polish: “Jezioro Tuz”
- Polish: “Tuz”
- Portuguese: “Lago Tuz”
- Russian: “Озеро Туз”
- Russian: “Туз”
- Serbian: “Туз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tuz”
- Slovak: “Tatta”
- Slovak: “Tuz Gölü”
- Slovak: “Tuz”
- Spanish: “Cuenca del Tuz Gölü”
- Spanish: “Lago de Tuz”
- Spanish: “Lago Tuz”
- Spanish: “Tuz Gölü”
- Swedish: “Tuz Gölü”
- Turkish: “Tuz Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Туз”
- Uzbek: “Tuz koʻli”
- Venetian: “lago Sałà”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Tuz”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tuz”
- Western Mari: “Туз йӓр”
- Yakut: “Туз күөл”
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