China
NW China
Xinjiang

Lop Nur

Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, , between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts.
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  • Type: Wetland
  • Description: former salt lake in Bayingolin Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
  • Also known as: “Lake Lo-pu”, “Lake Lop”, “Lake Luobu”, “Lo-pu Po”, “Lo-pu-no-erh”, “Lo-pu-po”, “Lob Nor”, “Lob Nur”, “Lob Nuur”, “Lob-nor”, “Lob-nur”, “Lobnor”, “Lobnur”, “Lopnor”, “Lopnur”, and “Luobubo”

Lop Nur

Latitude
40.70227° or 40° 42′ 8″ north
Longitude
90.93275° or 90° 55′ 58″ east
Elevation
795 metres (2,608 feet)
Open location code
8MGGPW2M+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 142865671
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wetland
Geo­Names ID
1529337
Wiki­data ID
Q319412
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lop Nur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة لوب نور”
  • Armenian: “Լոբնոր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lobnor gölü”
  • Basque: “Lop Nor”
  • Bengali: “লোপ নুর”
  • Bengali: “লোপনুর”
  • Bulgarian: “Лобнор”
  • Bulgarian: “Лоп нур”
  • Catalan: “Lob Nor”
  • Catalan: “Lob Nur”
  • Catalan: “Lop Nor”
  • Catalan: “Lop Nur”
  • Catalan: “Tchan-tchan”
  • Catalan: “Txan-txan”
  • Chinese: “Lop Nur”
  • Chinese: “牢兰海”
  • Chinese: “盐泽”
  • Chinese: “盐泽城”
  • Chinese: “罗布泊”
  • Chinese: “罗布淖尔”
  • Chinese: “羅布泊”
  • Chinese: “蒲昌海”
  • Chinese: “辅日海”
  • Czech: “Lob-nor”
  • Czech: “Lobnor”
  • Czech: “Lobnur”
  • Czech: “Lop nor”
  • Czech: “Lopnor”
  • Dutch: “Lob Nuur”
  • Dutch: “Lop Nor”
  • Dutch: “Lop Nur”
  • Esperanto: “Lop Nor”
  • Esperanto: “Lop Nur”
  • Estonian: “Lop Nur”
  • Finnish: “Lop Nur”
  • French: “Lob Nor”
  • French: “Lop Nor”
  • Georgian: “ლობნორი”
  • German: “Lop Nor”
  • German: “Lop Nur”
  • German: “Luobubo”
  • Hebrew: “אגם לופ”
  • Hebrew: “לופ נור”
  • Hindi: “लोप नुर”
  • Hungarian: “Lop-nór”
  • Indonesian: “Lop Nur”
  • Italian: “Lop Nor”
  • Italian: “Lop Nur”
  • Japanese: “ロプ・ノール”
  • Japanese: “ロプ・ノール湖”
  • Japanese: “ロブノール”
  • Japanese: “ロプノール”
  • Japanese: “ロプノール湖”
  • Japanese: “ロプノル”
  • Japanese: “ロプノル湖”
  • Japanese: “ロプ湖”
  • Japanese: “羅布泊”
  • Kazakh: “Lobnor”
  • Kazakh: “Лобнор”
  • Kazakh: “لوبنور”
  • Kirghiz: “Лобнор көлү”
  • Korean: “로프노르”
  • Latin: “Lob Nor”
  • Latvian: “Loba ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lobnora ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lobnors”
  • Latvian: “Lobnūrs”
  • Latvian: “Lop Nor”
  • Latvian: “Lop Nur”
  • Latvian: “Lop Nuur”
  • Latvian: “Lopnūrs”
  • Latvian: “Taitema Lake”
  • Lithuanian: “Lobnoras”
  • Lithuanian: “Lop Nuras”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lop Nur”
  • Mongolian: “Лоб нуур”
  • Mongolian: “ᠯᠣᠪ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lop Nor”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lop Nur”
  • Norwegian: “Lop Nor”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੋਪ ਨੁਰ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “لوپ نور”
  • Polish: “Lob-nor”
  • Polish: “Łob-nor”
  • Portuguese: “Lop Nor”
  • Portuguese: “Lop Nur”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Lop Nor”
  • Russian: “Лоб-Нор”
  • Russian: “Лобнор”
  • Russian: “Лоп-Нор”
  • Serbian: “Лоп Нур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Lop”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lob-Nor”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lop Nor”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lop Nur”
  • Slovak: “Lobnor”
  • Slovenian: “Lop Nor”
  • Spanish: “Lo pu po”
  • Spanish: “Lo-pu po”
  • Spanish: “Lop Nor”
  • Spanish: “Lop Nur”
  • Swedish: “Loopnor”
  • Swedish: “Lop Nor”
  • Swedish: “Lop Nur”
  • Swedish: “Lop-nor”
  • Telugu: “లోప్ నూర్”
  • Turkish: “Lop Nur”
  • Uighur: “Lopnur”
  • Uighur: “لوپنۇر”
  • Ukrainian: “Лобнор”
  • Urdu: “لوپ نور”
  • Uzbek: “Lobnor”
  • Uzbek: “Qoraqo‘shun”
  • Uzbek: “Qoraqo’shun”
  • Uzbek: “Qoraqo`shun”
  • Uzbek: “Qoraqoʻshun”
  • Vietnamese: “Lop Nor”
  • Vietnamese: “Lop Nur”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗布泊”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lop Nur”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.