Lake Tengiz
Tengiz Lake is a saline lake in Korgalzhyn District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. On 16 October 1976, the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 23 unintentionally splashed down into the northern part of the lake, which was frozen, crashing through the ice.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Salt lake
- Description: lake in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Ozero Tengiz”, “Ozero Teniz”, “Ozero Tenyz”, and “Tengiz Koli”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve.
Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve
Photo: Tomiris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve is in the Kazakhstani North. Together with the Naurzum State Nature Reserve it forms a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Lake Tengiz
- Categories: lake and body of water
- Location: Aqmola, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Tengiz from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Tengiz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بخيرة تنجيز”
- Armenian: “Թենգիզ”
- Azerbaijani: “Tengiz gölü”
- Belarusian: “Тэнгіз (возера)”
- Belarusian: “Тэнгіз”
- Bulgarian: “Тенгиз”
- Catalan: “llac Tenguiz”
- Catalan: “Llac Tenguiz”
- Cebuano: “Tengiz Köli”
- Chinese: “田吉茲湖”
- Chuvash: “Тенгиз”
- Croatian: “Tengiz”
- Czech: “Tengiz”
- Dutch: “Tengizmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره تينجيز”
- Finnish: “Tengizjärvi”
- French: “lac Tengiz”
- French: “Lac Tengiz”
- Georgian: “თენგიზი”
- German: “Tengissee”
- German: “Tengizsee”
- Indonesian: “Danau Tengiz”
- Italian: “lago Tengiz”
- Italian: “Lago Tengiz”
- Japanese: “テンギス湖”
- Japanese: “テンギズ湖”
- Kazakh: “Теңіз көлі”
- Kazakh: “Теңіз”
- Latvian: “Tenizs”
- Lithuanian: “Tengizas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tengiz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tengiz”
- Norwegian: “Tengiz”
- Persian: “دریاچه تنگیز”
- Polish: “Tengyz”
- Romanian: “Lacul Tengiz”
- Russian: “Тенгиз”
- Spanish: “Lago Tengiz”
- Swedish: “Tengiz Köli”
- Turkish: “Tengiz”
- Ukrainian: “Тенгіз”
- Venetian: “lago Tengiz”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tengiz”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Urochishche Karachi and Urochishche Bektas.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Qorghalzhyn Qoryghy and Kurgal’dzhinskiy Zapovednik.
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