Lake Volta
Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world by surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana's electricity.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Reservoir
- Description: world’s largest man-made reservoir by surface area, located in Ghana
- Also known as: “Akosombo-Staudamm”, “Jezero Volta”, “Jezioro Wolta”, “lago Volta”, “Lawang Volta”, “Volta Lake”, “Volta lakua”, “Volta veehoidla”, “Volta-järvi”, “Volta-See”, “Voltajärvi”, “Voltasee”, “Voltastausee”, “Voltos ežeras”, “Zbiornik Wolta”, “Акосомбо”, “Ակոսոմբո”, “ทะเลสาบวอลต้า”, “ボルタ湖”, and “伏爾塔水庫”
Lake Volta
- Category: body of water
- Location: Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.40057° or 7° 24′ 2″ north
Longitude
0.19472° or 0° 11′ 41″ east
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
Open location code
6FV2C52V+6V
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Welsh—“Lake Volta” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Firaw”
- Arabic: “بحيرة فولتا”
- Armenian: “Վոլտա”
- Basque: “Volta aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Вольта”
- Bengali: “ভোল্টা হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Волта”
- Catalan: “llac Volta”
- Catalan: “Llac Volta”
- Cebuano: “Lake Volta”
- Chinese: “沃尔特水库”
- Chinese: “沃爾特水庫”
- Croatian: “Volta”
- Czech: “Volta”
- Dagbani: “Lake Volta”
- Danish: “Lake Volta”
- Danish: “Voltasøen”
- Dutch: “Voltameer”
- Esperanto: “Voltao”
- Estonian: “Volta järv”
- Ewe: “Volta Ta”
- Finnish: “Volta”
- French: “lac Volta”
- French: “Lac Volta”
- Georgian: “ვოლტა”
- Georgian: “ვოლტის წყალსაცავი”
- German: “Volta-Stausee”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Volta”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Volta”
- Hebrew: “אגם וולטה”
- Hindi: “वोल्टा झील”
- Hungarian: “Volta-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Volta”
- Italian: “Volta”
- Japanese: “ヴォルタ湖”
- Korean: “볼타호”
- Latvian: “Voltas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Voltos tvenkinys”
- Macedonian: “Волта”
- Malagasy: “Volta (farihy)”
- Malagasy: “Volta”
- Malayalam: “വോൾട്ട തടാകം”
- Maltese: “Lag Volta”
- Northern Frisian: “Volta Stausia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voltasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Voltasjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه ولتا”
- Polish: “Wolta”
- Portuguese: “Lago Volta”
- Romanian: “Lacul de acumulare Volta”
- Russian: “Вольта”
- Serbian: “Volta”
- Serbian: “Волта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Volta”
- Slovenian: “jezero Volta”
- Slovenian: “Volta”
- Spanish: “Lago Volta”
- Swahili: “Volta”
- Swedish: “Voltasjön”
- Tagalog: “Lawa ng Volta”
- Tamil: “வோல்டா ஏரி”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบวอลตา”
- Tswana: “Lekadiba la Volta”
- Turkish: “Volta Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Вольта”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Volta”
- Welsh: “Llyn Volta”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Fahiakoho and Tapa Abotoase.
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