Uvs Lake
Uvs Lake is a highly saline lake in an endorheic basin—Uvs Nuur Basin, primarily in Mongolia with a smaller part in Russia. It is the largest lake in Mongolia by surface area, covering 3,350 km2 at 759 m above sea level.Photo: Dr. Králík, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: salt lake
- Also known as: “Ovs-nur”, “Ozero Ubsa”, “Ozero Ubsa-nur”, “Ozero Ubsu-Nur”, “Soubsen-nor”, “Ubsa Nor”, “Ubsa Nuur”, “Ubso Noor”, “Ubssa Nor”, “Ubsu Nor”, “Ubsu Nuur”, “Ubsu-Nur lake”, “Usba”, and “Wu-pu-sha Po”
Uvs Lake
- Categories: salt lake, biosphere reserve, and body of water
- Location: Mongolia, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Uvs Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة يوفس”
- Azerbaijani: “Ubsu-nur gölü”
- Azerbaijani: “Ubsu-Nur”
- Basque: “Uvs aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Возера Убсу-Нур”
- Belarusian: “Убсу-Нур”
- Bengali: “উভস হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Увс Нур”
- Bulgarian: “Увс”
- Catalan: “Llac Uvs”
- Catalan: “Uvs Nuur”
- Chinese: “乌布苏湖”
- Chinese: “烏布蘇湖”
- Chinese: “烏布蘇湖盆地”
- Chuvash: “Увăс Нур”
- Chuvash: “Увăс-Нур”
- Croatian: “Uvs-Nuur”
- Czech: “Uvs núr”
- Czech: “Uvs-nur”
- Danish: “Uvs Nuur”
- Dutch: “Uvs Nuur”
- Esperanto: “Uvs Nuur”
- Estonian: “Ubsu-Nur”
- Estonian: “Uvs Nuur”
- Estonian: “Uvs”
- Estonian: “Uvsi järv”
- Finnish: “Uvs Nuur”
- French: “Bassin d’Ubs Nuur”
- French: “Oubsou-Nour”
- French: “Ubs Nuur”
- French: “Uvs nuur”
- Georgian: “უბსუ ნური”
- Georgian: “უბსუ-ნური”
- German: “Uws Nuur”
- German: “Uws-Nuur”
- Hebrew: “אובס נואור”
- Hebrew: “אובס נור”
- Hungarian: “Uvsz-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Nuur”
- Indonesian: “Danau Uvs”
- Indonesian: “Uvs Nuur”
- Italian: “Uvs Nuur”
- Japanese: “ウヴス・ヌール”
- Japanese: “ウヴス・ヌール盆地”
- Japanese: “ウヴス湖”
- Japanese: “ウブス湖”
- Kirghiz: “Убсу-Нур”
- Korean: “우브스호”
- Latvian: “Ubsunūra ezers”
- Latvian: “Ubsunūrs”
- Latvian: “Uvs Nuur”
- Latvian: “Uvsnūrs”
- Lithuanian: “Ubsu Nuras”
- Lithuanian: “Ubsunuras”
- Macedonian: “Увс Нур”
- Malayalam: “യുവിഎസ് തടാകം”
- Mingrelian: “უბსუ-ნური”
- Mongolian: “Увс нуур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uvs Nuur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ubsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ubsu-Nur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uspa-Khol”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uvs Nuur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Убса”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Убсу-Нур”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Увс Нуур”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Успа-Холь”
- Norwegian: “Uvs Nuur”
- Ossetian: “Убсу-Нур”
- Ossetian: “Увс-Нуур”
- Panjabi: “ਉਵਸ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه اوفس”
- Persian: “دریاچه یواس”
- Polish: “Ubsu-nur”
- Polish: “Uws nuur”
- Polish: “Uws-nur”
- Polish: “Uws-nuur”
- Portuguese: “Lago Uvs”
- Russian: “Убсу-Нур”
- Russian: “Убсу-Нуур”
- Russian: “Убсунур”
- Russian: “Увс-Нур”
- Russian: “Увс-Нуур”
- Serbian: “Убсу-Нур”
- Serbian: “Увс-Нур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Uvs-Nuur”
- Slovak: “Uvs núr”
- Slovak: “Uvs Nuur”
- Slovak: “Uvs-núr”
- Slovenian: “Uvs (jezero)”
- Slovenian: “Uvs”
- Spanish: “Cuenca del Uvs Nuur”
- Spanish: “Lago Uvs”
- Spanish: “Uvs Nuur”
- Spanish: “Uvs-Nuur”
- Spanish: “Uvs”
- Swedish: “Ubsa-nor”
- Swedish: “Ubsa-Nur”
- Swedish: “Ubsu-Nur”
- Swedish: “Ubsu-Nuur”
- Swedish: “Uvs Nuur”
- Tatar: “Убсу-Нур күле”
- Thai: “แอ่งน้ำอุฟส์นูร์”
- Turkish: “Ubsa Gölü”
- Turkish: “Uvs Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Убсу-Нур”
- Ukrainian: “Убсунур”
- Uzbek: “Ubsunur”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Uvs”
- Vietnamese: “Uvs Nuur”
- Yakut: “Убсу Нуур күөлэ”
- Yue Chinese: “烏布蘇湖”
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