Lake Erçek
Lake Erçek is an endorheic salt lake in Van Province in eastern Turkey, about 30 kilometres east of Lake Van. The lake sits at an elevation of about 1,803 metres, and has an area of 106.2 square kilometres and a mean depth of 18.45 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: EvgenyGenkin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Turkey
- Also known as: “Ercek Golu” and “Erçek See”
Lake Erçek
- Category: body of water
- Location: Van Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Erçek from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Lake Erçek” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Առչակ”
- Armenian: “Արճակ լիճ”
- Armenian: “Արճիշակ”
- Catalan: “Erçek Gölü”
- Cebuano: “Lake Etcek”
- Chinese: “埃尔切克湖”
- Chuvash: “Эрчек”
- Dutch: “Lake Erçek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ارسيك”
- German: “Erçek Gölü”
- Italian: “lago di Erçek”
- Italian: “Lago di Erçek”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erçek Gölü”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erçeksjøen”
- Panjabi: “ਅਰਚੇਕ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه ارچک”
- Portuguese: “Lago Ercheque”
- Russian: “Озеро Эрчек”
- Russian: “Эрчек (озеро)”
- Russian: “Эрчек”
- Spanish: “Lago Erçek”
- Turkish: “Erçek Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ерчек”
- Venetian: “lago de Erçek”
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