Chao Lake
Chao Lake, also known by its Chinese name Chao Hu, is a lake wholly situated in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. It is the largest lake in Anhui and one of the five major freshwater lakes in China.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 5 metres (16 feet)
- Description: lake in China
- Also known as“Chaohu Lake”“the Chaohu Lake”
Chao Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
31.51667° or 31° 31′ north
Longitude
117.55° or 117° 33′ east
Open location code
8P3VGH82+M2
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chao Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة تشاو”
- Basque: “Chao lakua”
- Bengali: “চাও হু”
- Bengali: “চাও হ্রদ”
- Chinese: “巢湖 (湖泊)”
- Chinese: “巢湖”
- Chinese: “巢湖风景名胜区”
- Chuvash: “Чаоху”
- Czech: “Jezero Chao”
- Dutch: “Chao Lake”
- Dutch: “Chaomeer”
- French: “lac Chao”
- French: “Lac Chao”
- Georgian: “ჩაო (ტბა)”
- Georgian: “ჩაო”
- German: “Chao Hu”
- German: “Chao-See”
- German: “Chaosee”
- Hebrew: “אגם צ’או”
- Indonesian: “Danau Chao”
- Japanese: “巣湖”
- Korean: “차오호”
- Literary Chinese: “巢湖”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chao Hu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaosjøen”
- Norwegian: “Chaosjøen”
- Panjabi: “ਚਾਓ ਝੀਲ”
- Russian: “Чао (озеро)”
- Russian: “Чаоху (озеро)”
- Russian: “Чаоху”
- Spanish: “Lago Chao”
- Spanish: “Lago Chaohu”
- Spanish: “Lago Jiao”
- Swedish: “Chao Hu”
- Turkish: “Chao Gölü”
- Uzbek: “Chao ko’li”
- Vietnamese: “hồ Sào”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Sào”
- Wu Chinese: “巢湖”
- Yue Chinese: “巢湖”
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