Lake Nyasa

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in and Lago Niassa in , is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between , Mozambique and Tanzania.
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  • Lake
  • …has a surface elevation of 474 metres (1,555 feet)
  • Description: African Great Lake
  • Also known as
    “Lago Niassa”
    “Lago Nyassa”
    “Lake Malawi”
    “Lake Niassa”
    “Lake Nyassa”
  • Neighbors:
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Lake Nyasa

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Latitude
-12° or 12° south
Longitude
34.5° or 34° 30′ east
Open location code
5GWP2G22+22
Geo­Names ID
924329
Wiki­data ID
Q5532

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Nyasa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Malawimeer”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة ملاوي”
  • Aragonese: “Laco Malawi”
  • Armenian: “Նյասա լիճ”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Malawi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyasa”
  • Bashkir: “Ньяса”
  • Basque: “Nyassa”
  • Bavarian: “Malawisee”
  • Belarusian: “Малаві”
  • Bengali: “মালাউই হ্রদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “मलावी झील”
  • Bosnian: “Malawi”
  • Breton: “Lenn Malawi”
  • Bulgarian: “Малави”
  • Burmese: “မာလဝီကန်”
  • Catalan: “Llac Malawi”
  • Central Bikol: “Danaw Malawi”
  • Chinese: “马拉维湖”
  • Chuvash: “Малави”
  • Croatian: “Malavi”
  • Czech: “Lago Niassa”
  • Czech: “Lake Malawi”
  • Czech: “Malawi”
  • Czech: “Ňasa”
  • Czech: “Nyasa”
  • Danish: “Malawisøen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Golê Malawi”
  • Dutch: “Malawimeer”
  • Dutch: “Niassameer”
  • Dutch: “Nyasameer”
  • Dutch: “Nyassameer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة ملاوى”
  • Esperanto: “Malavia Lago”
  • Estonian: “Njassa järv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lake Malawi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malawi Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Njassajärvi”
  • French: “Lac Malawi”
  • Galician: “Lago Niassa”
  • Georgian: “ნიასა”
  • German: “Malawisee”
  • German: “Njassasee”
  • German: “Nyasasee”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lago Niassa”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Malawi”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Nyasa”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Nyassa”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Μαλάουι”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Νιάσα”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Νυάσα”
  • Guarani: “Ypa Maláui”
  • Hausa: “Tabkin Malawi”
  • Hebrew: “אגם ליווינגסטון”
  • Hebrew: “אגם מלאווי”
  • Hindi: “मलावी झील”
  • Hungarian: “Nyasza-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Malaví-vatn”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Malawi”
  • Irish: “Loch na Maláive”
  • Italian: “Lago Malawi”
  • Japanese: “マラウイ湖”
  • Kannada: “ಮಲಾವಿ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kazakh: “Ньяса”
  • Kirghiz: “Ньяса”
  • Korean: “말라위호”
  • Kotava: “Malawi Uzda”
  • Latin: “Lacus Malavianus”
  • Latvian: “Ņasas ezers”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lago Malawi”
  • Lithuanian: “Malavio ežeras”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Malawiski jazor”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malawiséi”
  • Macedonian: “Малави”
  • Malagasy: “Farihy Malawi”
  • Malay: “Tasik Malawi”
  • Malayalam: “മലാവി തടാകം”
  • Marathi: “मलावी सरोवर”
  • Mazanderani: “مالاوی دریاچه”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიასა”
  • Newari: “मलावी पुखू”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malaawi Sia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nyasa Sia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malawisjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malawisjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Malawisjøen”
  • Nyanja: “Lake Malawi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Malawi”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਲਾਵੀ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه مالاوی”
  • Polish: “Malawi”
  • Polish: “Niasa”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Niassa”
  • Quechua: “Malawi qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Nyasa”
  • Russian: “Малави”
  • Russian: “Ньяса”
  • Serbian: “Malavi”
  • Serbian: “Малави”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malavi”
  • Sindhi: “ملاوي ڍنڍ”
  • Slovak: “Malawi”
  • Slovenian: “Malavijsko jezero”
  • Somali: “Harada malaawi”
  • Spanish: “Lago Malaui”
  • Swahili: “Nyasa”
  • Swedish: “Malawisjön”
  • Swiss German: “Malawisee”
  • Tamil: “மலாவி ஏரி”
  • Tatar: “Ньяса күле”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบมาลาวี”
  • Tswana: “Letsha la Malawi”
  • Tumbuka: “Nyanja ya Malaŵi”
  • Turkish: “Malavi Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Малаві”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньяса”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Malawiski jězor”
  • Urdu: “جھیل ملاوی”
  • Uzbek: “Nyasa”
  • Venetian: “lago Malawi”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Malawi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Malawi”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Malawi”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Nyasa”
  • Western Mari: “Ньяса”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل ملاوی”
  • Wu Chinese: “馬拉維湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拉維湖”

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