North Africa
Egypt
Ismailia Governorate

Great Bitter Lake

The Great Bitter Lake is a large saltwater lake in which is part of the . Before the canal was built in 1869, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry salt valley or basin.
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  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: salt water lake that is part of the Suez Canal in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Al Buḩayrah al Murrah al Kubrá”, “Al Buhayrat al Murrah al Kubra”, “Al Buḩayrat al Murrat al Şaghrī, Al Buhayrat al Murrat al Saghri”, “Buheirat Murrat-el-Kubra”, “El ‘Ambag”, “El-Buḥeira el-Murra el-Kabîra”, and “Small Bitter Lake”

Great Bitter Lake

Latitude
30.22944° or 30° 13′ 46″ north
Longitude
32.54278° or 32° 32′ 34″ east
Open location code
8G2J6GHV+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768581318
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Geo­Names ID
351834
Wiki­data ID
Q526440
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Satellite Map

Discover Great Bitter Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Great Bitter Lake” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Bittermeer”
  • Arabic: “البحيرات المرة”
  • Arabic: “البحيرة المرة الصغيرة”
  • Arabic: “البحيرة المرة الكبرى‎”
  • Arabic: “البحيرة المرة الكبرى”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Acı Göl”
  • Basque: “Aintzira Mikatz Handia”
  • Burmese: “ဘစ်တာကန်ကြီး”
  • Catalan: “Gran Llac Amarg”
  • Cebuano: “Great Bitter Lake”
  • Chinese: “大苦湖”
  • Chuvash: “Мăн Йӳçĕ”
  • Croatian: “Veliko gorko jezero”
  • Czech: “Velké hořké jezero”
  • Czech: “Velké Hořké jezero”
  • Danish: “Store Bittersø”
  • Dutch: “Grote Bittermeer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحيرات المره”
  • Esperanto: “Granda Amara Lago”
  • Estonian: “Suur Mõrujärv”
  • Finnish: “Iso Katkerajärvi”
  • Finnish: “Iso Katkerojärvi”
  • French: “Al Buhayrat al Murrat al Saghri”
  • French: “Grand Lac Amer”
  • German: “Bitterseen”
  • German: “Grosser Bittersee”
  • German: “Großer Bittersee”
  • German: “Kleiner Bittersee”
  • Hebrew: “האגם המר הגדול”
  • Hebrew: “האגמים המרים”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Pahit Besar”
  • Italian: “Grande Lago Amaro”
  • Japanese: “グレートビター湖”
  • Japanese: “スモールビター湖”
  • Korean: “그레이트비터호”
  • Latin: “Magnus Lacus Amarus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Store Bittersjø”
  • Persian: “دریاچه تلخ بزرگ”
  • Polish: “Wielkie Jezioro Gorzkie”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Lago Amargo”
  • Russian: “Большое Горькое озеро”
  • Sardinian: “Lagu Marigosu Mannu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gorka jezera”
  • Slovak: “Veľké horké jazero”
  • Slovak: “Veľké Horúce jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Veliko Grenko jezero”
  • Spanish: “Gran Lago Amargo”
  • Swedish: “Bittersjöarna”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Acı Göl”
  • Ukrainian: “Велике Гірке озеро”
  • Venetian: “laghi amari”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Bitter Lake”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.