Lake Bangweulu
Lake Bangweulu is a freshwater lake in northern Zambia. Bangweulu is one of the world's great wetland systems, comprising Lake Bangweulu, the Bangweulu Wetlands and the Bangweulu flats or floodplain.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in northern Zambia
- Also known as: “Bangweolo”, “Bemba”, “Lake Bangwelk”, and “Lake Bengweulu”
Lake Bangweulu
- Category: body of water
- Location: Zambia, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Lake Bangweulu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bangweulumeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة بانغويلو”
- Basque: “Bangweulu aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Бангвеулу”
- Belarusian: “Бангвэулу”
- Bulgarian: “Бангвеулу”
- Burmese: “ဘန့်ဝီလု”
- Catalan: “Llac Bangweulu”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Bangweulu”
- Chinese: “班韋烏盧湖”
- Chuvash: “Бангвеулу”
- Czech: “Bangweulu”
- Danish: “Bangweulusøen”
- Dutch: “Bangweulumeer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Bangveulu”
- Finnish: “Bangweulujärvi”
- French: “lac Bangwelo”
- French: “Lac Bangwelo”
- Georgian: “ბანგვეულუ”
- German: “Bangweulusee”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bangweolo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bemba”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Bangweulu”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Bangweulu”
- Hebrew: “אגם בנגוואולו”
- Hungarian: “Bangweulu-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Bangweulu”
- Italian: “lago Bangweulu”
- Italian: “Lago Bangweulu”
- Japanese: “バングウェウル湖”
- Kazakh: “Бангвеулу”
- Latin: “Bangweolo”
- Latvian: “Bangveulu”
- Lithuanian: “Bangveulu”
- Mingrelian: “ბანგვეულუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bangweulusjøen”
- Norwegian: “Bangweulusjøen”
- Polish: “Bangweulu”
- Portuguese: “Lago Bangweulu”
- Romanian: “lacul Bangweulu”
- Russian: “Бангвеулу”
- Serbian: “Бангвеулу”
- Slovenian: “jezero Bangweulu”
- Spanish: “Lago Bangweulu”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Bangweulu”
- Swedish: “Bangweulusjön”
- Turkish: “Bangweulu Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Бангвеулу”
- Venetian: “lago Bangweulu”
- Welsh: “Llyn Bangweulu”
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