Phewa Lake
Phewa Lake or Phewa Tal is a freshwater lake in Nepal formerly called Baidam Tal located in the south of the Pokhara Valley that includes Pokhara city and parts of Sarangkot and Kaskikot.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Kaski District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Baidam Tal”, “Fewa Lake”, “Fewa Tal”, and “Phewa Tal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tal Barahi Temple and Pokhara Airport.
Tal Barahi Temple
Islet
Tal Barahi temple also known as ‘Lake Temple’ or ‘Barahi Temple’ is a Hindu temple of the goddess Barahi. It is the most important religious monument in Pokhara, Nepal.
Pokhara Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Kogo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pokhara Airport is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. Pokhara Airport is supposed to be gradually replaced by Nepal's third international airport, Pokhara International Airport, since 2023. Pokhara Airport is situated 4 km southeast of Phewa Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sarangkot and Pokhara.
Sarangkot
Sarangkot is in Pokhara. Sarangkot is a village just above Pokhara, known as a one-night destination as most people just stop in to see the stunning sunrise over the Annapurna range and leave.
Pokhara
Photo: Dmottl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pokhara is the second largest city in Nepal with about 520,000 people in 2021. It is the starting point for most of the treks in the Annapurna area. It is a very popular location with most people staying around the beautiful Fewa Lake.
Kaskikot
Photo: Drpaudel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaskikot is a beautiful village in the lap of Annapurna in Nepal. Before the unification of Nepal there were 24 small principalities in west Nepal. Kaski was one of them.
Phewa Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Pokhara Lekhnath, Kaski, Gandaki Pradesh, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Phewa Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bengali to Venetian—“Phewa Lake” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ফেওয়া হ্রদ”
- Burmese: “ဖီဝကန်”
- Cebuano: “Phewa Tāl”
- Chinese: “Phewa湖”
- Chinese: “費瓦湖”
- Dotyali: “फेवा ताल”
- Dutch: “Phewa Lake”
- Fijian: “Phewa”
- French: “Lac Fewa”
- French: “lac Phewa”
- French: “Lac Phewa”
- French: “Phewa Tal”
- German: “Fewa-See”
- German: “Phewa-See”
- Greek: “Πέγουα”
- Indonesian: “Danau Phewa”
- Italian: “lago Phewa”
- Italian: “Lago Phewa”
- Japanese: “ペワ湖”
- Kannada: “ಫೆವಾ ಸರೋವರ”
- Korean: “페와 호수”
- Korean: “페와호”
- Lithuanian: “Peva”
- Lithuanian: “Pevos ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Phevos ežeras”
- Maithili: “फेवा ताल”
- Malayalam: “ഫേവ തടാകം”
- Nepali: “Phewā Tāl”
- Nepali: “फेवा ताल”
- Nepali: “फेवाताल”
- Panjabi: “ਫੇਵਾ ਝੀਲ”
- Polish: “Phewa Tal”
- Portuguese: “Lago Fewa”
- Portuguese: “Lago Phewa”
- Portuguese: “Phewa Tal”
- Russian: “Пхева”
- Sanskrit: “फेवा सरोवर”
- Santali: “ᱯᱷᱮᱣᱟ ᱛᱟᱞ (ᱯᱩᱠᱷᱚᱨᱤ)”
- Santali: “ᱯᱷᱮᱣᱟ ᱛᱟᱞ”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Phewa”
- Spanish: “Lago Phewa”
- Spanish: “Phewa tal”
- Spanish: “Phewa”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบเผวา”
- Ukrainian: “Пхева”
- Venetian: “lago Phewa”
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Notable Places Nearby
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