Lake Tana
Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia and a source of the Blue Nile. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately 84 kilometres long and 66 kilometres wide, with a maximum depth of 15 metres, and an elevation of 1,788 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Dambiya”, “Dembea”, “Lake Dembea”, “Lake Tsana”, “T’ana Hāyk”, “T’ana Hāyk’”, “Ṭana Ḥäyq”, and “Tsana”
Lake Tana
- Category: body of water
- Location: Amhara, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Lake Tana” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tanameer”
- Amharic: “ጣና ሃይቅ”
- Amharic: “ጣና ሐይቅ”
- Amharic: “ጣና”
- Arabic: “بحيرة تانا”
- Armenian: “Թանա”
- Azerbaijani: “Tana gölü”
- Azerbaijani: “Tana”
- Basque: “Tana lakua”
- Basque: “Tana”
- Belarusian: “Возера Тана”
- Belarusian: “Тана”
- Bengali: “তানা হ্রদ”
- Bhojpuri: “ताना झील”
- Breton: “Lenn Tana”
- Bulgarian: “Дембея”
- Bulgarian: “Тана”
- Bulgarian: “Цана”
- Burmese: “တနကန်”
- Catalan: “llac Tana”
- Catalan: “Llac Tana”
- Cebuano: “Lake Tana”
- Chinese: “塔納湖”
- Chinese: “塔纳湖”
- Chuvash: “Тана”
- Croatian: “Jezero Tana”
- Croatian: “Tana”
- Czech: “Tana”
- Danish: “Lake Tana”
- Danish: “Tanasøen”
- Dutch: “Tanameer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة تانا”
- Esperanto: “Tana”
- Finnish: “Tanajärvi”
- French: “lac Tana”
- French: “Lac Tana”
- Galician: “Lago Tana”
- Georgian: “ტანა”
- German: “Tanasee”
- Greek: “Τάνα”
- Hebrew: “אגם טאנה”
- Hebrew: “ימת טאנה”
- Hindi: “ताना झील”
- Hungarian: “Tana-tó”
- Icelandic: “Tanavatn”
- Ido: “Lago Tana”
- Indonesian: “Danau Tana”
- Italian: “lago Tana”
- Italian: “Lago Tana”
- Japanese: “タナ湖”
- Japanese: “デンベア湖”
- Japanese: “トゥサナ湖”
- Kannada: “ತಾನಾ ಸರೋವರ”
- Kazakh: “Тана көлі”
- Kirghiz: “Тана көлү”
- Korean: “타나호”
- Latvian: “Lake Tana”
- Latvian: “T’ana”
- Latvian: “Tanas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Tana”
- Lithuanian: “Tanos ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Тана”
- Malayalam: “ടാന തടാകം”
- Mingrelian: “ტანა (ტობა)”
- Mingrelian: “ტანა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tana-sjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Tanasjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Tana”
- Persian: “دریاچه تانا”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ تانا”
- Polish: “Jezioro Tana”
- Polish: “Tana Hajk”
- Polish: “Tana”
- Portuguese: “Lago T’ana”
- Portuguese: “Lago Tana, Terras Altas da Etiópia”
- Portuguese: “Lago Tana”
- Portuguese: “Terras Altas da Etiópia”
- Romanian: “Lacul Tana”
- Russian: “Озеро Тана”
- Russian: “Тана”
- Serbian: “Jezero Tana”
- Serbian: “Језеро Тана”
- Serbian: “Тана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Tana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tana”
- Slovak: “Tana”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Tana”
- Slovenian: “Tana”
- Spanish: “Lago Tana”
- Swahili: “Tana”
- Swahili: “Ziwa la Tana”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Tana”
- Swedish: “Tanasjön”
- Swedish: “Tsanasjön”
- Tamil: “தனா ஏரி”
- Turkish: “Tana Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Тана”
- Ukrainian: “Тана”
- Urdu: “جھیل ٹانا”
- Uzbek: “Tana”
- Venetian: “lago Tana”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Tana”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tana”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل ٹانا”
- Wu Chinese: “塔纳湖”
- “ताना झील”
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