Buir Lake

Buir Lake is a freshwater that straddles the border between and . It lies within the Buir Lake Depression. The Chinese city of is named after both this lake and , which lies entirely on the Chinese side of the border in .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake between Mongolia and China
  • Also known as: Ber”, “Boihr Nor”, “Boirh Nor”, “Bor Lake”, “Bor Nor”, “Bör See”, “Bui-nor”, “Bur Nor”, “Buri Nor”, “Buyer Nor”, “Buyr Nuur”, “Ozero Buir Dalai”, “Ozero Buir-nor”, “Pei-erh Ch’ih”, “Pei-erh Hu”, “Pei-erh-ta-lai Hu”, “Peiernoehr”, “Per Lake”, “Pu-yü Ch’ih”, “Pu-yü-erh Hai”, “Pu-yü-erh Hai-tzu”, and “Pu-yü-li-no-erh

Buir Lake

Latitude
47.8° or 47° 48′ north
Longitude
117.7° or 117° 42′ east
Elevation
577 metres (1,893 feet)
Open location code
8PVVRM2X+2X
Geo­Names ID
2032076
Wiki­data ID
Q715788
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Vietnamese—“Buir Lake” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: Буир
  • Bulgarian: Буирнур
  • Catalan: Buir Nur
  • Chinese: 捕魚兒海
  • Chinese: 捕鱼儿海
  • Chinese: 貝爾湖
  • Chinese: 貝雨爾湖
  • Chinese: 贝尔湖
  • Chuvash: Буйр-Нуур
  • Czech: Buir núr
  • Czech: Buir Nuur
  • Czech: Buir-nur
  • Czech: Buir
  • Czech: Bujr núr
  • Dutch: Buir Lake
  • Egyptian Arabic: بحيره بوير
  • Finnish: Buirjärvi
  • French: lac Buir
  • French: Lac Buir
  • German: Buir Nor
  • German: Buir Nur
  • German: Buir Nuur
  • German: Buir
  • Hungarian: Bujr-tó
  • Indonesian: Danau Buir
  • Italian: Bujr nuur
  • Japanese: ブイル・ノール
  • Japanese: ブイル湖
  • Japanese: ボイル湖
  • Japanese: 貝爾湖
  • Korean: 부이르호
  • Latvian: Bèiěr Hú
  • Latvian: Buirnūrs
  • Latvian: Буир Нуур
  • Mongolian: Буйр нуур
  • Ossetian: Буйр-Нуур
  • Panjabi: ਬੁਇਰ ਝੀਲ
  • Persian: دریاچه بوئیر
  • Polish: Buir Nur
  • Polish: Buir nuur
  • Polish: Bujr nuur
  • Russian: Буир-Нур
  • Russian: Буйр-Нур
  • Russian: Буйр-Нуур
  • Russian: Буйрнуур
  • Spanish: Buir Nuur
  • Spanish: Lago Buir
  • Turkish: Buyr Gölü
  • Ukrainian: Буйр-Нур
  • Ukrainian: Буйр-Нуур
  • Venetian: Bujr nuur
  • Vietnamese: Hồ Buir

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