Heaven Lake
Heaven Lake is a volcanic crater lake atop Paektu Mountain. It lies on the border between China and North Korea, and is roughly evenly divided between the two countries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Mätes II., CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: crater lake in China/North Korea
- Also known as: “Ch’ŏnji”, “Changbaishan Tianchi”, “Cheonji”, “T’ien ch’ih”, “T’ien-ch’ih”, “Tamun juce”, “Tamun omo”, “Tianchi”, “Tianchi Lake”, and “Tyondi”
Photo: Bdpmax, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Farm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baekdu Mountains.
Baekdu Mountains
Photo: Mark Scott Johnson, CC BY 2.0.
The Baekdu Mountains or Paektu Mountain are a range in the northern part of North Korea spanning the provinces of Ryanggang and Chagang that are of huge symbolic importance to many Koreans.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Changbaishan National Nature Reserve.
Changbaishan National Nature Reserve
Photo: Gertjerry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Changbaishan National Nature Reserve is in Jilin province.
Heaven Lake
- Categories: volcanic crater lake and body of water
- Location: China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Heaven Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Heaven Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة السماء”
- Azerbaijani: “Çhonji”
- Basque: “Zeruko Aintzira”
- Basque: “Zeruko lakua”
- Belarusian: “\возера Чхонджы”
- Belarusian: “Чхонджы”
- Bengali: “চিয়নজি”
- Bengali: “চেয়নজি”
- Bengali: “তামুন অমো”
- Bengali: “তামুন জুসে”
- Bengali: “তিয়ানচি”
- Bengali: “স্বর্গ হ্রদ”
- Bosnian: “Rajsko jezero”
- Burmese: “ကောင်းကင်ကန်”
- Cebuano: “Changbaishan Tianchi”
- Chinese: “天池”
- Chinese: “白头山天池”
- Chinese: “長白山天池”
- Chinese: “长白山天池”
- Chuvash: “Чхонджи”
- Croatian: “Rajsko jezero”
- Czech: “Nebeské jezero”
- Dutch: “Tianchi”
- Esperanto: “Ĉiellago”
- French: “Lac Chon”
- French: “Lac Chonji”
- French: “lac du Paradis”
- French: “Lac du Paradis”
- French: “Lac Tianchi”
- Georgian: “ტიანჩის ტბა”
- German: “Baitoushan Tianchi”
- German: “Ch’ŏnji”
- German: “Changbaishan Tianchi”
- German: “Chonji”
- German: “Himmelssee”
- German: “Tian Chi”
- German: “Tiān Chí”
- German: “Tianchi”
- German: “천지”
- German: “天池”
- Greek: “Λίμνη του Παραδείσου”
- Greek: “Τιάντσι”
- Greek: “Τσόντζι”
- Hebrew: “אגם השמיים”
- Hebrew: “אגם השמים”
- Indonesian: “Danau Surga”
- Italian: “Lago Paradiso”
- Japanese: “天池”
- Korean: “Ch’ŏn-ji”
- Korean: “백두산 천지”
- Korean: “용왕담”
- Korean: “천지”
- Lithuanian: “Tianči ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Tianči”
- Macedonian: “Небесно Езеро”
- Malayalam: “ഹെവൻ തടാകം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chonji”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Himmelsjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tianchi”
- Norwegian: “Chonji”
- Panjabi: “ਹੈਵਨ ਲੇਕ”
- Persian: “تامون اومو”
- Persian: “تیانچی”
- Persian: “چانجی”
- Persian: “دریاچه آسمان”
- Persian: “دریاچه تامون اومو”
- Persian: “دریاچه تیانچی”
- Persian: “دریاچه چانجی”
- Polish: “Ch’ŏnji”
- Portuguese: “Lago do Céu”
- Russian: “Байтоушань-Тяньчи”
- Russian: “Небесное озеро”
- Russian: “Чхонджи”
- Serbian: “Рајско језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rajsko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Tianchi”
- Swedish: “Changbaishan Tianchi”
- Swedish: “Chonji”
- Swedish: “Heaven Lake”
- Turkish: “Cennet Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Небесне озеро”
- Vietnamese: “Ch’ŏnji”
- Vietnamese: “Cheonji”
- Vietnamese: “Chonji”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Ch’ŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Cheon”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Chon”
- Vietnamese: “Thiên Trì, núi Trường Bạch”
- Vietnamese: “Thiên Trì”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیون جھیل”
- Wu Chinese: “天池（长白山）”
- Wu Chinese: “天池”
- Yue Chinese: “天池”
- Yue Chinese: “白頭山天池”
- Yue Chinese: “長白山天池”
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