Lake Sevan
Lake Sevan is the largest body of water in both Armenia and the Caucasus region. It is one of the largest freshwater high-altitude lakes in Eurasia. The lake is situated in Gegharkunik Province, at an altitude of 1,900 m above sea level.Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Armenia
- Also known as: “Gokcha”, “Gokchai”, “Goktcha”, “Goyçə Gölü”, “Kegharkunik”, “Ozero Sevai”, “Ozero Sevan”, “Sevan”, “Sevana Lich”, “Sevang”, “Sevanga”, “Sevangha”, and “Ssewan-See”
Lake Sevan
- Category: body of water
- Location: Lake Sevan Region, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Lake Sevan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sewanmeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة سيفان”
- Arabic: “سيفانا ليتش”
- Armenian: “Գեղամա լիճ”
- Armenian: “Գեղամա ծով”
- Armenian: “Գեղարքունյաց ծով”
- Armenian: “Սևանա լիճ”
- Avaric: “Севан”
- Azerbaijani: “Göyçə gölü”
- Azerbaijani: “Sevan gölü”
- Bashkir: “Севан”
- Basque: “Sevan aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Севан”
- Belarusian: “Сэван”
- Bulgarian: “Севан”
- Catalan: “Gelamai”
- Catalan: “llac Sevan”
- Catalan: “Llac Sevan”
- Catalan: “Sevan”
- Cebuano: “Lake Sevan”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی سێڤان”
- Chinese: “塞凡湖”
- Chuvash: “Севан”
- Croatian: “Sevan”
- Czech: “Sevan”
- Danish: “Sevan søen”
- Danish: “Sevansøen”
- Dutch: “Sevanmeer”
- Eastern Mari: “Севан”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سيفان”
- Esperanto: “Gegham”
- Esperanto: “Lago Sevan”
- Esperanto: “Maro Gegham”
- Esperanto: “Sevan-lago”
- Esperanto: “Sevan”
- Estonian: “Sevani järv”
- Finnish: “Sevan”
- French: “lac de Gegham”
- French: “lac Gegharkuni”
- French: “lac Sevan”
- French: “Lac Sevan”
- French: “Lac Sévan”
- Georgian: “სევანი”
- Georgian: “სევანის ტბა”
- German: “Sevansee”
- German: “Sewansee”
- Greek: “λίμνη Σεβάν”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Σεβάν”
- Hebrew: “ימת סוואן”
- Hungarian: “Szeván-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Sevan”
- Irish: “Loch Sevan”
- Italian: “lago Sevan”
- Italian: “Lago Sevan”
- Japanese: “セヴァン湖”
- Japanese: “セバン湖”
- Kazakh: “Севан”
- Korean: “세반호”
- Latin: “Lychnitis”
- Latvian: “Sevans”
- Lezghian: “Севан”
- Lithuanian: “Sevanas”
- Lithuanian: “Sevano ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Севан”
- Malayalam: “ലേക്ക് സെവൻ”
- Malayalam: “സെവാൻ തടാകം”
- Mazanderani: “سوان دریاچه”
- Mingrelian: “სევანიშ ტობა”
- Mongolian: “Севан нуур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Geghamhavet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Geghamsjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sevan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sevansjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Geghamsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sevansjøen”
- Norwegian: “Sevansjøen”
- Ossetian: “Севан”
- Persian: “دریاچه سوان”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ سوان”
- Polish: “Jezioro Sewan”
- Polish: “Sewan”
- Portuguese: “Lago Sevã”
- Portuguese: “Lago Sevan”
- Romanian: “Lacul Sevan”
- Russian: “Гегамское море”
- Russian: “Гокча”
- Russian: “Гоча”
- Russian: “Озеро Севан”
- Russian: “Севан”
- Serbian: “Sevan”
- Serbian: “Језеро Севан”
- Serbian: “Севан”
- Serbian: “Սևանա լիճ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Sevan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sevan”
- Slovak: “Sevan”
- Slovenian: “Sevansko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Sevan”
- Spanish: “Lago Seván”
- Swedish: “Sevansjön”
- Tatar: “Севан”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบเซวาน”
- Turkish: “Sevan Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Севан”
- Ukrainian: “Севан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sewan”
- Uzbek: “Sevan”
- Venetian: “lago Sevan”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Sevan”
- Volapük: “Lak di Sevan”
- Volapük: “Lak Sevan”
- Volapük: “Lak: Sevan”
- Volapük: “Sevan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Sevan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Sevan”
- Welsh: “Llyn Sevan”
- Western Armenian: “Սեւանայ Լիճ”
- Western Frisian: “Sevanmar”
- Wu Chinese: “塞凡湖”
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