Dongting Lake
Dongting Lake is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan Province, China. Also referred to less frequently as the Dongting Plain, it is a flood basin of the Yangtze River, so its volume depends on the season.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 26 metres (85 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Tung-Ting Lake”
- Description: large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan province, China
- Also known as“Dongdongting Hu”“Dòngtíng Hú”“Lake Dongting”“Tung-t’ing Hu”
Dongting Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
29.2928° or 29° 17′ 34″ north
Longitude
112.98946° or 112° 59′ 22″ east
Open location code
7PXJ7XVQ+4Q
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dongting Lake” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Toeng-Tieng-meer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة دونجتنج”
- Armenian: “Դունտինհու”
- Azerbaijani: “Dumtinxu”
- Basque: “Dongting lakua”
- Basque: “Dongting”
- Belarusian: “Дунтынху”
- Bengali: “দোংতিং হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Дунтинху”
- Catalan: “Llac Dongting”
- Chinese: “东洞庭湖”
- Chinese: “洞庭”
- Chinese: “洞庭湖”
- Chinese: “洞庭湖水系”
- Chinese: “洞庭湖流域”
- Chuvash: “Дунтинху”
- Czech: “Tung-tching-chu”
- Czech: “Tung-tching”
- Danish: “Dong-søen”
- Danish: “Dongting-søen”
- Danish: “Dongtingsøen”
- Dutch: “Dongting Hu”
- Dutch: “Dòngtíng Hú”
- Dutch: “Dongting”
- Dutch: “Dongtingmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره دونجتنج”
- Esperanto: “Lago Dongting”
- Finnish: “Dongting Hu”
- Finnish: “Dongtingjärvi”
- Finnish: “Tungtinghu”
- French: “Dongting”
- French: “Dongtinghu”
- French: “Lac Dong”
- French: “lac Dongting”
- French: “Lac Dongting”
- Georgian: “დუნტინხუ”
- Georgian: “ტუნგთინგხუ”
- German: “Dongting Hu”
- German: “Dongting-See”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ντονγκτίνγκ”
- Hebrew: “אגם דונגטינג”
- Hindi: “दोंगतिंग झील”
- Hungarian: “Tungting-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Dongting”
- Italian: “lago Dongting”
- Italian: “Lago Dongting”
- Japanese: “洞庭湖”
- Japanese: “雲夢大沢”
- Kazakh: “Dwntïnxw”
- Kazakh: “Дунтинху”
- Kazakh: “دۋنتىينحۋ”
- Kirghiz: “Дунтинхe”
- Kirghiz: “Дунтинху”
- Korean: “동정호”
- Korean: “둥팅호”
- Latvian: “Dong Lake”
- Latvian: “Dongting Lake”
- Latvian: “Duntinhu ezers”
- Latvian: “Duntinhu”
- Literary Chinese: “洞庭湖”
- Lithuanian: “Dongtingas”
- Lithuanian: “Dongtinghu”
- Lithuanian: “Duntinhu”
- Lithuanian: “Duntino ežeras”
- Mingrelian: “დუნტინხუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dongting Hu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dongtingsjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tungtingsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dongtingsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Dongtingsjøen”
- Panjabi: “ਡੋਂਗਟਿੰਗ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه دونگینگ”
- Polish: “Dongting Hu”
- Polish: “Dongting”
- Polish: “Jezioro Dongting”
- Polish: “Tungting-hu”
- Portuguese: “Lago Dongting”
- Russian: “Донтинху”
- Russian: “Дунтин”
- Russian: “Дунтинху”
- Serbian: “Jezero Dungting”
- Serbian: “Донгтинг”
- Serbian: “Дунгтинг”
- Serbian: “Језеро Донгтинг”
- Serbian: “Језеро Дунгтинг”
- Slovenian: “Dongting”
- Slovenian: “jezero Dongting”
- Spanish: “Dongting”
- Spanish: “Lago Dongting”
- Swedish: “Dongting-sjön”
- Swedish: “Dongtingsjön”
- Tibetan: “ཏུང་ཐིང་མཚེའུ།”
- Turkish: “Dongting Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Дунтін”
- Ukrainian: “Дунтінху”
- Uzbek: “Duntinxu”
- Venetian: “lago Dongting”
- Vietnamese: “Động Đình Hồ”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Động Đình”
- Welsh: “Llyn Dongting”
- Wu Chinese: “洞庭湖”
- Yue Chinese: “洞庭湖”
- “telo suli Tonsin”
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