Lake Ayakkum

Ayakkum Lake is a lake near the northern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau, to the southeast of the . While many of the small and snowmelt-fed streams on the Plateau give rise to major South-east Asian rivers, some empty into saline lakes such as Lake Ayakkum.
  • Lake
  • …has a surface elevation of around 3,880 metres (12,720 feet)
  • Also known as
    “A-ya-k’o-k’u-mu Hu”
    “A-ya-k’o-k’u-mu-k’u-le”
    “A-ya-ko-k’u-mu-k’u-li”
    “A-ya-ko-k’u-mu-k’u-li Hu”
    “Achak-kum Lake”
    “Aig Kum Kul”
    “Ajagh-kum-köl”
    “Ayag-kum-köll”
    “Ayagh Kum-kol”
    “Ayagh-koum-koul”
    “Ayaghakum Kol”
    “Ayaghkum Kul”
    “Ayak-kum Kul”
    “Ayake Kumu Hu”
    “Ayakum Lake”
    “Lake Ayagh Kum”
    “Lake Ayagkum-kul’”
  • Category: body of water
  • Location
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Latitude
37.55808° or 37° 33′ 29″ north
Longitude
89.40335° or 89° 24′ 12″ east
Open location code
8M9FHC53+68
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Lake Ayakkum” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Ayakum”
  • Cebuano: “Ayakkum Hu”
  • Chinese: “阿牙克库木湖”
  • Chinese: “阿牙克庫木湖”
  • Chinese: “阿雅克库木湖”
  • Chinese: “阿雅克庫木湖”
  • Chinese: “阿雅格库木库里”
  • Chinese: “阿雅格庫木庫里”
  • Italian: “Ayakum”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਯਾਕੁਮ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه آیاقوم”
  • Russian: “Аяг-кум”
  • Russian: “Аягкумкуль”
  • Russian: “Аяккумкёль”
  • Spanish: “Lago Ayakkum”
  • Spanish: “Lago Ayakum”
  • Swedish: “Ayakkum Hu”
  • Uighur: “ئاياققۇم كۆلى”
  • Venetian: “Ayakum”
  • Vietnamese: “Ayakum”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Ayakum”

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