Barsa-Kelmes

Barsa-Kelmes was an island, the largest in the . Its area was 133 km2 in the 1980s, but as the sea became more shallow it steadily grew, until in the 1990s it ceased to be an island.
Wikipedia
  • Peninsula
  • …lies at an elevation of 98 metres (322 feet)
  • Description: formerly largest island in the Aral Sea
  • Also known as
    “Barsakelmes Aral”
    “Ostrov Barsakel’mes”

Barsa-Kelmes

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Latitude
45.6452° or 45° 38′ 43″ north
Longitude
59.88982° or 59° 53′ 23″ east
Open location code
8HQXJVWQ+3W
Geo­Names ID
610433
Wiki­data ID
Q2216473

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Barsa-Kelmes” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Barsakelmes”
  • Bulgarian: “Барсакелмес”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Barsakelmes”
  • Catalan: “Llac Barsakelmes”
  • Cebuano: “Poluostrov Barsakel’mes”
  • Chinese: “巴爾薩-凱爾梅斯島”
  • Chuvash: “Барсакельмес”
  • Czech: “Barsakelmes”
  • Dutch: “Barsa-Kelmes”
  • Estonian: “Barsakelmes”
  • German: “Barsakelmes”
  • Hebrew: “ברסאקלמס”
  • Indonesian: “Barsakelmes”
  • Italian: “Barsa-Kelmes”
  • Italian: “Lago Barsakelmes”
  • Japanese: “バルサケルメス島”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Barsakelmes (ataw)”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Barsakelmes”
  • Kazakh: “Barsakelmes Tübegi”
  • Kazakh: “Барсакелмес Түбегі”
  • Kazakh: “Барсакелмес”
  • Lithuanian: “Barsakelmesas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barsakelmes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barsa-Kelmes”
  • Norwegian: “Barsakelmes”
  • Polish: “Barsakelmes”
  • Russian: “Барсакельмес”
  • Russian: “Остров Барсакельмес”
  • Slovenian: “Barsakelmes”
  • Spanish: “Barsa-Kelmes”
  • Swedish: “Poluostrov Barsakel’mes”
  • Tatar: “Барсакелмес”
  • Ukrainian: “Барса-Кельмес”
  • Ukrainian: “Барсакельмес”
  • Uzbek: “Borsakelmas”
  • Vietnamese: “Barsa-Kelmes”

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