Lake Nyos
Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about 315 km northwest of Yaoundé, the capital. Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon line of volcanic activity.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 1,158 metres (3,799 feet)
- Description: crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
- Also known as“Ilüi-see”“Lac Nyas”“Lake Ilwi”“Lake Lwi”“Lake Nios”“Ndü-See”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chah.
Chah
Village
Chah, or Cha, is a village in the Northwest Province… Chah is situated 9 km northwest of Lake Nyos.
Lake Nyos
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Latitude
6.43803° or 6° 26′ 17″ north
Longitude
10.298° or 10° 17′ 53″ east
Open location code
6FRGC7QX+66
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Lake Nyos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nyosmeer tragedie”
- Afrikaans: “Nyosmeer”
- Afrikaans: “Nyosmeertragedie”
- Arabic: “بحيرة نيوس”
- Armenian: “Նյոս”
- Basque: “Nyos aintzira”
- Basque: “Nyos lakua”
- Breton: “Lenn Nyos”
- Bulgarian: “Ниос”
- Burmese: “ညော့ကန်”
- Catalan: “Llac Nyos”
- Cebuano: “Lake Nyos”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw Nyos”
- Chinese: “尼奧斯湖”
- Chuvash: “Ньос”
- Croatian: “Nyos (jezero)”
- Croatian: “Nyos”
- Czech: “Jezero Nyos”
- Czech: “Nyos”
- Danish: “Lake Nyos”
- Danish: “Nyossøen”
- Dutch: “Nyosmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره نيوس”
- Esperanto: “Nyos”
- Finnish: “Nyosjärvi”
- French: “Lac Lwi”
- French: “lac Nyos”
- French: “Lac Nyos”
- French: “Nyos”
- Georgian: “ნიოსის ტბა”
- German: “Nios-See”
- German: “Nyos-See”
- German: “Nyos-Tragödie”
- German: “Nyos”
- German: “Nyossee”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Nyos”
- Hebrew: “אגם ניוס”
- Hebrew: “ניוס”
- Hungarian: “Nyos-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Nyos”
- Italian: “lago Nyos”
- Italian: “Lago Nyos”
- Japanese: “ニオス”
- Japanese: “ニオス湖”
- Kazakh: “Ньос”
- Korean: “니오스호”
- Latvian: “Lac Lwi”
- Latvian: “Lac Nyos”
- Latvian: “Lake Nyos”
- Latvian: “Lvi ezers”
- Latvian: “Niosas ezers”
- Latvian: “Ņosa ezers”
- Latvian: “Ņoss”
- Lithuanian: “Niosas”
- Lithuanian: “Nioso ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Njosas”
- Lithuanian: “Nyos”
- Macedonian: “Њос”
- Malay: “Tasik Nyos”
- Mingrelian: “ნიოსიშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyossjøen”
- Norwegian: “Nyossjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه نیوس”
- Polish: “Nyos”
- Portuguese: “Lago Nyos”
- Portuguese: “Nyos”
- Romanian: “Lacul Nyos”
- Romanian: “Nyos”
- Russian: “Ниос”
- Russian: “Ньос”
- Serbian: “Њос”
- Slovak: “Nyos”
- Spanish: “Lago Nyos”
- Swedish: “Lake Nyos”
- Swedish: “Nyossjön”
- Ukrainian: “Ніос”
- Venetian: “lago Nyos”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Nyos”
- Welsh: “Llyn Nyos”
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