Lake Balkhash

Lake Balkhash, also known as Lake Balqash, is a lake in southeastern . It is one of the largest lakes in Asia and the 15th largest in the world.
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Latitude
46.5° or 46° 30′ north
Longitude
75° east
Open location code
8JRQG222+22
Geo­Names ID
1525796
Wiki­data ID
Q134485

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Balkhash” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Balchasj-meer”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بالخاش”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بالكاش”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بلخاش”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بلقاش”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بلكاش”
  • Armenian: “Բալխաշ լիճ”
  • Armenian: “Բալխաշ”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Baljash”
  • Azerbaijani: “Balqaş gölü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Balxaş”
  • Bashkir: “Балхаш”
  • Basque: “Balkash aintzira”
  • Basque: “Balkash lakua”
  • Basque: “Balkhax aintzira”
  • Belarusian: “Балхаш”
  • Bengali: “বলখাশ হ্রদ”
  • Bosnian: “Balhaško jezero”
  • Bosnian: “Jezero Balkhash”
  • Breton: “Lenn Balkhach”
  • Breton: “Lenn Balqach”
  • Bulgarian: “Балхаш”
  • Catalan: “Balqaş”
  • Catalan: “llac Balqaş”
  • Chinese: “巴尔喀什湖”
  • Chinese: “巴爾喀什湖”
  • Chuvash: “Балхаш”
  • Croatian: “Balhaško jezero”
  • Czech: “Balchaš”
  • Czech: “Balchašské jezero”
  • Czech: “Balkaš”
  • Czech: “Jezero Balchaš”
  • Danish: “Balkhasjsøen”
  • Dutch: “Balchasjmeer”
  • Dutch: “Balkasjmeer”
  • Dutch: “Balkhasjmeer”
  • Dutch: “Balqash Köl”
  • Dutch: “Balqasjmeer”
  • Eastern Mari: “Балхаш”
  • Esperanto: “Balhaŝ”
  • Esperanto: “Balhaŝo”
  • Esperanto: “Balkaŝo”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Balĥaŝo”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Balkaŝo”
  • Estonian: “Balhaš”
  • Estonian: “Balhaši järv”
  • Estonian: “Balkaši järv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Balkhash Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Balhaš”
  • Finnish: “Balhash”
  • Finnish: “Balhašjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Balkaš”
  • Finnish: “Balkash”
  • Finnish: “Balkašjärvi”
  • Finnish: “Balqaş”
  • French: “Balkhach”
  • French: “Lac Balkash”
  • French: “Lac Balkhach”
  • Galician: “Lago Balkhash”
  • Georgian: “ბალხაში”
  • Georgian: “ბალხაშის ტბა”
  • German: “Balchasch-See”
  • German: “See Balkasch”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Μπαλκάς”
  • Greek: “λίμνη Μπαλχάς”
  • Hebrew: “ימת בלחש”
  • Hindi: “बालख़ाश झील”
  • Hindi: “बाल्काश झील”
  • Hungarian: “Balkas-tó”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Balkhash”
  • Italian: “Balkash”
  • Italian: “Balkhash”
  • Italian: “Lago Balhas”
  • Italian: “Lago Balkash”
  • Italian: “Lago Balkhaš”
  • Italian: “Lago Balkhash”
  • Italian: “Lago Balqaş”
  • Japanese: “バルハシ湖”
  • Japanese: “巴爾喀什湖”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಲ್ಖಾಶ್ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Balxash kóli”
  • Kazakh: “Balqaş”
  • Kazakh: “Balqash Köli”
  • Kazakh: “Балқаш Көли”
  • Kazakh: “Балқаш Көлі”
  • Kazakh: “Балқаш”
  • Kazakh: “بالقاش”
  • Kirghiz: “Балкаш”
  • Korean: “발카슈 호”
  • Korean: “발카슈 호수”
  • Korean: “발하슈 호”
  • Korean: “발하시호”
  • Latin: “Lacus Balchasch”
  • Latvian: “Balhaša ezers”
  • Latvian: “Balhašs”
  • Latvian: “Balqaş”
  • Latvian: “Lake Balkhash”
  • Latvian: “Балқаш”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lago Balcax”
  • Lithuanian: “Balchašas”
  • Lithuanian: “Balchašo ežeras”
  • Lithuanian: “Balkašas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Balchaschséi”
  • Macedonian: “Балхашко Езеро”
  • Malayalam: “Lake Balkhash”
  • Malayalam: “ബൽക്കാഷ് തടാകം”
  • Malayalam: “ബൽഖാഷ്”
  • Marathi: “बालखाश सरोवर”
  • Mazanderani: “بالخاش”
  • Mingrelian: “ბალხაშიშ ტობა”
  • Mongolian: “Балхаш нуур”
  • Mongolian: “Балхаш”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkashsjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkasjsjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkhash”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkhasj-sjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkhasj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balķaš Kôli”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkasj Keli”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkasj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkhashsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkhasj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkhasjsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ozero Balkhasj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Балқаш Көлі”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Озеро Балхаш”
  • Norwegian: “Balkhasjsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Balqash”
  • Ossetian: “Балхаш”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਖਸ਼ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “بالخاش”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ بالخاش”
  • Persian: “دریاچه بالقاش”
  • Polish: “Bałchasz”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Balcache”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Balkhash”
  • Quechua: “Balqash qucha”
  • Romanian: “Balhaş”
  • Romanian: “Lacul balhaş”
  • Russian: “Балкаш”
  • Russian: “Балхаш”
  • Russian: “Балхашское озеро”
  • Russian: “Озеро Балхаш”
  • Serbian: “Balhaško jezero”
  • Serbian: “Балхашко језеро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Balhaško jezero”
  • Sindhi: “بالخش ڍنڍ”
  • Slovak: “Balchašské jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Balhaško jezero”
  • Spanish: “Balhash”
  • Spanish: “Balkash”
  • Spanish: “Balkhash”
  • Spanish: “Lago Baljash”
  • Spanish: “Lago Balkhash”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Balkhash”
  • Swedish: “Balchasjsjön”
  • Swedish: “Balkaschsjön”
  • Swedish: “Balkasjsjön”
  • Swedish: “Balkhashsjön”
  • Swedish: “Balkhasjsjön”
  • Tajik: “Балхаш”
  • Tamil: “பால்காஷ் ஏரி”
  • Tatar: “Balxaş”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบบัลคัช”
  • Turkish: “Balkaş Gölü”
  • Udmurt: “Балхаш”
  • Ukrainian: “Балхаш”
  • Urdu: “جھیل بالخش”
  • Uzbek: “Balxash”
  • Venetian: “lago Balqaš”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Balkhash”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Balkhash”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lake Balkhash”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Balkhash”
  • Western Frisian: “Balkasjmar”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل بالخش”
  • Wu Chinese: “Lake Balkhash”
  • Wu Chinese: “Озеро Балхаш”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴尔喀什湖”
  • Yakut: “Балхаш”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴爾喀什湖”

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