Lake Elton
Lake Elton is a salt lake in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, near the border with Kazakhstan. It has an area of 152 square kilometres and is normally about 0.1 metres deep, and about 0.7 to 0.8 metres in spring.Photo: Medvedevphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Elton
- Type: Lake
- Description: Russian salt lake and the largest in Europe
- Categories: salt lake and body of water
- Location: Volgograd Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Elton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة إلتون”
- Azerbaijani: “Elton gölü”
- Bashkir: “Эльтон”
- Basque: “Elton aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Эльтон”
- Bulgarian: “Елтон”
- Catalan: “ozero Èl’ton”
- Cebuano: “Ozero El’ton”
- Chinese: “埃利通湖”
- Chuvash: “Эльтон”
- Czech: “Elton”
- Dutch: “Eltonmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره التون”
- Estonian: “Elton”
- Finnish: “Elton”
- French: “lac Elton”
- French: “Lac Elton”
- Georgian: “ელტონი”
- German: “Eltonsee”
- Hungarian: “Elton-tó”
- Italian: “Ėl’ton”
- Italian: “lago Ėl’ton”
- Italian: “Lago Ėl’ton”
- Italian: “Lago Elton”
- Japanese: “エリトン湖”
- Japanese: “エルトン湖”
- Kazakh: “Эльтон”
- Kirghiz: “Эльтон”
- Latin: “Lacus Elton”
- Latvian: “Eltons”
- Latvian: “Эльтон”
- Lithuanian: “Eltonas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elton i Russland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Innsjøen Elton”
- Norwegian: “Elton”
- Ossetian: “Эльтон”
- Persian: “دریاچه التون”
- Polish: “Elton”
- Russian: “Елтон”
- Russian: “Озеро Эльтон”
- Russian: “Эльтон”
- Spanish: “Lago Elton”
- Spanish: “Lago Eltón”
- Turkish: “Elton Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ельтон”
- Uzbek: “Elton”
- Welsh: “Llyn Elton”
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