Lake Nyasa
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: African Great Lake
- Also known as: “Lago Niassa”, “Lago Nyassa”, “Lake Malawi”, “Lake Niassa”, and “Lake Nyassa”
- Neighbors: Chintheche
Photo: Joachim Huber, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Lake Nyasa
- Category: body of water
- Location: Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Nyasa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “Возера Малаві”
- 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: “馬拉維湖”
- 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”
- French: “Lac Malawi”
- Galician: “Lago Niassa”
- Georgian: “ნიასა”
- German: “Malawisee”
- German: “Njassasee”
- German: “Nyasasee”
- 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”
- Italian: “Lago Malawi”
- Japanese: “マラウイ湖”
- Kannada: “ಮಲಾವಿ ಸರೋವರ”
- Kazakh: “Ньяса”
- Kirghiz: “Ньяса”
- Korean: “말라위호”
- Kotava: “Malawi uzda”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Tosk Albanian: “Malawisee”
- 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”
- “मलावी झील”
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