Lake Ziway
Lake Ziway, also known as Hora-Dambal or Dambal, is one of the freshwater Rift Valley lakes of Ethiopia. It is the home of the Zay people. Located about 100 miles south of Addis Ababa, on the border between the Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, the woredas holding the lake's shoreline are Adami Tullu-Jido Kombolcha, Dugda, and Batu town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: one of the Rift Valley lakes of Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Dambal”, “Dembel”, “Hora-Dambal”, “Lake Zuai”, “Lake Zwai”, “Lake Zway”, “Zeway”, “Zewāy”, “Ziwai”, “Ziway”, “Ziway Hayk‘”, “Zoai”, and “Zouai”
Lake Ziway
- Category: body of water
- Location: Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Ziway” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة زواي”
- Bhojpuri: “ज्वाया झील”
- Burmese: “ဟိုရာဒမ်ဘယ်”
- Catalan: “Llac Ziway”
- Cebuano: “Ziway Hāyk‘”
- Cebuano: “Ziway Hāyk’”
- Chinese: “茲懷湖”
- Croatian: “Jezero Zivaj”
- Croatian: “Zivaj”
- French: “lac Dambal”
- French: “lac Ziway”
- French: “Lac Ziway”
- French: “lac Zway”
- German: “Ziway”
- German: “Zway”
- Hausa: “Hora-Dambal”
- Italian: “Lago Zuai”
- Lithuanian: “Zvajus”
- Macedonian: “Зивај”
- Oromo: “Lake Dambal”
- Russian: “Звай”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Zivaj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zivaj”
- Spanish: “Lago Ziway”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Ziway”
- Swedish: “Ziway Hāyk‘”
- Swedish: “Ziway Hāyk’”
- Venetian: “lago Zuai”
- Welsh: “Llyn Zway”
- “ज्वाया झील”
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