Syvash
The Syvash or Sivash, also known as the Putrid Sea or Rotten Sea, is a large area of shallow lagoons on the western edge of the Sea of Azov. Separated from the sea by the narrow Arabat Spit, the water of the Syvash covers an area of around 2,560 km2 and the entire area spreads over about 10,000 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Gulf
- Description: bay of the Sea of Azov
- Also known as: “Sivash” and “Syvash Bay”
Syvash
- Categories: bay, marsh, lagoon, and body of water
- Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Wu Chinese—“Syvash” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սիվաշ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sivaş körfəzi”
- Bashkir: “Сиваш”
- Basque: “Sivax”
- Belarusian: “Сіваш”
- Belarusian: “Сываш”
- Bosnian: “Sivaš”
- Bulgarian: “Сиваш”
- Catalan: “Albuferes del Syvaix”
- Catalan: “Mar de Syvach”
- Catalan: “Mar Podrida”
- Catalan: “Sivaix”
- Catalan: “Sivash”
- Catalan: “Syvaix”
- Catalan: “Sývaix”
- Cebuano: “Zatoka Syvash”
- Chinese: “錫瓦什湖”
- Chinese: “锡瓦什湖”
- Crimean Tatar: “Sıvaş”
- Croatian: “Sivaš”
- Czech: “Syvaš”
- Dutch: “Sivash”
- Dutch: “Syvasj”
- Eastern Mari: “Сиваш”
- Erzya: “Сиваш”
- Esperanto: “Sivaŝo”
- Estonian: “Mädameri”
- Estonian: “Sivaš”
- Estonian: “Sõvaš”
- Finnish: “Mätämeri”
- Finnish: “Sivaš”
- Finnish: “Syvaš”
- Finnish: “Syvash”
- French: “Mer de Syvach”
- French: “Mer Putride”
- French: “Sivach”
- French: “Syvach”
- Georgian: “სივაში”
- German: “Faules Meer”
- German: “Siwasch”
- German: “Siwaschsee”
- German: “Sywasch”
- Hungarian: “Szivas”
- Indonesian: “Sivash”
- Indonesian: “Syvash”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Sivash”
- Italian: “Sivaš”
- Japanese: “シヴァーシュ”
- Japanese: “スィヴァーシュ”
- Japanese: “腐海”
- Kazakh: “Сываш”
- Kirghiz: “Сиваш”
- Korean: “시바시”
- Latin: “Putridum mare”
- Latvian: “Sivašs”
- Lithuanian: “Sivašas”
- Macedonian: “Сиваш”
- Malayalam: “സിവാഷ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sivasj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sivasj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sivasjlagunen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Syvasj”
- Norwegian: “Sivasj”
- Persian: “سیواش”
- Polish: “Siwasz”
- Polish: “Sywasz”
- Portuguese: “Sivash”
- Romanian: “Sivaș”
- Russian: “Ozero Sivash”
- Russian: “Zaliv Sivash”
- Russian: “Гнилое море”
- Russian: “Залив Сиваш”
- Russian: “Сиваш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sivaš”
- Slovenian: “Sivaš”
- Spanish: “Mar de Sivash”
- Spanish: “Mar de Syvach”
- Spanish: “Sivash”
- Swedish: “Sivasj”
- Swedish: “Syvasj”
- Tatar: “Sıwaş”
- Turkish: “Sivaş”
- Ukrainian: “Zatoka Syvash”
- Ukrainian: “Гниле море”
- Ukrainian: “Затока Сиваш”
- Ukrainian: “Сиваська затока”
- Ukrainian: “Сиваш”
- Ukrainian: “Сивашська затока”
- Venetian: “Mar de Syvach”
- Vietnamese: “Syvash”
- Wu Chinese: “锡瓦什湖”
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