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.
- Type: Gulf
- Description: bay of the Sea of Azov
- Also known as: “Albuferes del Syvaix”, “Faules Meer”, “Mädameri”, “Mar Podrida”, “Mätämeri”, “Mer de Syvach”, “Mer Putride”, “Sivach”, “Sivasjlagunen”, “Siwasch”, “Siwaschsee”, “Siwasz”, “Sývaix”, “Syvash Bay”, “Гниле море”, “Гнилое море”, “залив Сиваш”, “Сиваська затока”, “Сивашська затока”, “シヴァーシュ”, “スィヴァーシュ”, and “锡瓦什湾”
Syvash
- Categories: bay, marsh, lagoon, and body of water
- Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.36667° or 46° 22′ north
Longitude
35.11667° or 35° 7′ east
Open location code
8GRQ9488+MM
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Syvash” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيفاش”
- Armenian: “Սիվաշ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sivaş körfəzi”
- Bashkir: “Сиваш”
- Basque: “Sivax”
- Belarusian: “Сіваш”
- Belarusian: “Сываш”
- Bosnian: “Sivaš”
- Bulgarian: “Сиваш”
- Catalan: “Sivaix”
- Catalan: “Syvaix”
- Cebuano: “Zatoka Syvash”
- Chinese: “錫瓦什湖”
- Chinese: “锡瓦什湖”
- Crimean Tatar: “Sıvaş”
- Crimean Tatar: “Сываш”
- Croatian: “Sivaš”
- Czech: “Syvaš”
- Dutch: “Sivash”
- Dutch: “Syvasj”
- Eastern Mari: “Сиваш”
- Erzya: “Сиваш”
- Esperanto: “Sivaŝo”
- Estonian: “Sõvaš”
- Finnish: “Syvaš”
- French: “Syvach”
- Georgian: “სივაში”
- German: “Sywasch”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ סיבאש”
- Hungarian: “Szivas”
- Indonesian: “Sivash”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Sivash”
- Italian: “Sivaš”
- 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: “Sivasj”
- Persian: “سیواش”
- Polish: “Sywasz”
- Portuguese: “Sivash”
- Romanian: “Sivaș”
- Russian: “Ozero Sivash”
- Russian: “Zaliv Sivash”
- Russian: “Залив Сиваш”
- Russian: “Сиваш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sivaš”
- Slovenian: “Sivaš”
- Spanish: “Mar de Sivash”
- Spanish: “Mar de Syvach”
- Swedish: “Syvasj”
- Tatar: “Sıwaş”
- Turkish: “Sivaş”
- Ukrainian: “Zatoka Syvash”
- Ukrainian: “Затока Сиваш”
- Ukrainian: “Сиваш”
- Venetian: “Mar de Syvach”
- Vietnamese: “Syvash”
- Wu Chinese: “锡瓦什湖”
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