Buir Lake

Buir Lake is a freshwater lake 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 .
Wikipedia
  • Lake
  • …lies at an elevation of 577 metres (1,893 feet)
  • 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”
    “Pu-yü-li-no-erh”

Buir Lake

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Latitude
47.8° or 47° 48′ north
Longitude
117.7° or 117° 42′ east
Open location code
8PVVRM2X+2X
Geo­Names ID
2032076
Wiki­data ID
Q715788

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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”
  • Fulah: “Buir Lake”
  • 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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