Lake Kossou
Lake Kossou is Côte d'Ivoire's largest lake. It lies on the Bandama River in the center of the country. It is an artificial lake, created in 1973 by damming the Bandama River at Kossou. Some 75,000 Baoulé people were displaced by the lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: reservoir in Ivory Coast
- Also known as: “Lac de Kossou”
Lake Kossou
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: Sassandra-Marahoué District, Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Kossou from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Lake Kossou” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Косу”
- Burmese: “ကော့ဆိုးကန်”
- Cebuano: “Lac de Kossou”
- Chinese: “科蘇湖”
- Croatian: “Kossou (jezero)”
- Croatian: “Kossou”
- Danish: “Kossousøen”
- Dutch: “Kossoumeer”
- French: “lac de Kossou”
- French: “Lac de Kossou”
- Georgian: “კოსუ”
- German: “Kossoustausee”
- Greek: “λίμνη Κοσού”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Kossou”
- Hebrew: “אגם קוסו”
- Italian: “lago di Kossou”
- Lithuanian: “Kosu tvenkinys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lac de Kossou”
- Persian: “دریاچه کوسو”
- Polish: “Kossou”
- Portuguese: “Lago Kossou”
- Romanian: “Lacul Kossou”
- Russian: “Коссу”
- Russian: “Косу (водохранилище)”
- Russian: “Косу”
- Slovenian: “Kossou”
- Swedish: “Lac de Kossou”
- Turkish: “Kossou Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Коссу”
- Welsh: “Llyn Kossou”
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