Poyang Lake
Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China. Located within Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, it is fed by the Gan, Xin, and Xiu rivers and flows northward into the Yangtze River through a channel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: Largest freshwater lake in China, located in Jiangxi Province
- Also known as: “Po-yang Ho”
Poyang Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Jiangxi, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Poyang Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة بويانغ”
- Arabic: “بحيره بويانغ”
- Armenian: “Պոյա Նհու”
- Asturian: “Llagu Poyang”
- Bashkir: “Поянху”
- Basque: “Poyang lakua”
- Basque: “Poyang”
- Belarusian: “Возера Паянху”
- Belarusian: “Паян-Ху”
- Belarusian: “Паянху”
- Bengali: “পয়াং হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Поянху”
- Catalan: “Llac Poyang”
- Chinese: “彭蠡”
- Chinese: “彭蠡泽”
- Chinese: “彭蠡湖”
- Chinese: “鄱阳湖”
- Chinese: “鄱陽湖”
- Chuvash: “Поянху”
- Croatian: “Poyang”
- Czech: “Pcho-jang-chu”
- Czech: “Poyang Hu”
- Danish: “Poyang Hu”
- Danish: “Poyangsøen”
- Dutch: “Poyangmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره بويانج”
- Esperanto: “Lago Pojang”
- Esperanto: “Poyang Hu”
- Esperanto: “Póyáng Hú”
- Esperanto: “Poyang”
- Esperanto: “Póyáng”
- Fiji Hindi: “Poyang Talaab”
- Finnish: “Poyangjärvi”
- French: “Lac Payang”
- French: “lac Poyang”
- French: “Lac Poyang”
- French: “Mer de Poyang”
- Galician: “Lago Poyang”
- Gan Chinese: “鄱阳湖”
- Gan Chinese: “鄱陽湖”
- Georgian: “პოიანხუ”
- German: “Poyang Hu”
- German: “Poyang-See”
- German: “Poyanghu”
- German: “Poyangsee”
- Hebrew: “אגם פו-יאנג”
- Hindi: “पोयांग झील”
- Hungarian: “Pojang-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Poyang”
- Italian: “lago Poyang”
- Italian: “Lago Poyang”
- Japanese: “ポーヤン湖”
- Japanese: “鄱陽湖”
- Kirghiz: “Поянху”
- Korean: “파양호”
- Korean: “포양호”
- Latin: “Lacus Poyang”
- Latvian: “Lake Poyang”
- Latvian: “Pojanhu ezers”
- Latvian: “Pojanhu”
- Literary Chinese: “鄱陽湖”
- Lithuanian: “Pojanghu”
- Lithuanian: “Pojanhu”
- Lombard: “Poyang”
- Macedonian: “Појанг”
- Malayalam: “പൊയാങ്ങ് തടാകം”
- Mingrelian: “პოიანხუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poyang Hu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poyangsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poyangsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Poyangsjøen”
- Panjabi: “ਪੋਯਾਂਗ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “پویانگ هو”
- Persian: “دریاچه پویانگ”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ پویانگ”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Poyang”
- Piemontese: “Poyang”
- Polish: “Pojang-hu”
- Polish: “Poyang Hu”
- Portuguese: “Lago Poyang”
- Quechua: “Poyang qucha”
- Russian: “Поянху”
- Serbian: “Појанг”
- Slovenian: “Pojang”
- Spanish: “Lago Poyang”
- Spanish: “Poyang”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Poyang”
- Swedish: “Poyang-sjön”
- Swedish: “Poyang”
- Swedish: “Poyangsjön”
- Tamil: “போயாங் ஏரி”
- Turkish: “Poyang Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Поянху”
- Uzbek: “Poyang ko’li”
- Venetian: “lago Poyang”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Bà Dương”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Phàn Dương”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Phiền Dương”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Phồn Dương”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Poyang”
- Wu Chinese: “鄱阳湖”
- Yue Chinese: “鄱陽湖”
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