Crocodile Lake

Lake Timsah, Arabic for Crocodile Lake, is a lake in on the . It lies in a basin developed along a fault extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez through the Bitter Lakes region.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Egypt
  • Also known as: “At-Timsah Lake”, “Buhayrat at Timsah”, “Buheiret el-Timsaḥ”, “Lake Timsah”, “ティムサー湖”, and “提姆萨赫湖”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Suez Canal Authority Stadium and Ismailia Stadium.

Stadium
The is located in , .

Stadium
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The is located in , Egypt… is situated 3 km northwest of Crocodile Lake.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ismailia.

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is a city in north-eastern .

Crocodile Lake

Latitude
30.57857° or 30° 34′ 43″ north
Longitude
32.28684° or 32° 17′ 13″ east
Open location code
8G2JH7HP+CP
Geo­Names ID
347281
Wiki­data ID
Q1724581
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Crocodile Lake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة التمساح”
  • Catalan: “Llac Timsah”
  • Cebuano: “Buḩayrat at Timsāḩ”
  • Chinese: “提姆薩赫湖”
  • Dutch: “Timsahmeer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة التمساح”
  • French: “lac Timsah”
  • French: “Lac Timsah”
  • German: “Timsahsee”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Timsah”
  • Hebrew: “אגם תמסח”
  • Japanese: “ティムサーハ湖”
  • Panjabi: “ਟਿਮਸਾਹ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه تمساح”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Krokodyli”
  • Portuguese: “Lago do Crocodilo”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Timsah”
  • Russian: “Тимсах”
  • Serbian: “Тимсах”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Timsah”
  • Somali: “Harada Timsah”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Timsah”
  • Swedish: “Timsah”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบติมซาห์”
  • Ukrainian: “Тимсах”
  • Uzbek: “Timsoh koʻli”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Timsah”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: ‘Izbat Oda and ‘Izbat Abū ‘Aţwah.

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Highlights: Chevalier Island and Birkat Abū Jāmūs.

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