Lake Mai-Ndombe
Lake Mai-Ndombe is a large freshwater lake in Mai-Ndombe province in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lake is within the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe area, the largest Wetland of International Importance recognized by the Ramsar Convention in the world.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in the province of Mai-Ndombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Lac Léopold II”, “Lac Mai-Ndombe”, and “Meer Léopold II”
Lake Mai-Ndombe
- Category: body of water
- Location: Mai-Ndombe, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-2.08465° or 2° 5′ 5″ south
Longitude
18.3391° or 18° 20′ 21″ east
Elevation
292 metres (958 feet)
Open location code
6F9WW88Q+4J
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Lake Mai-Ndombe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة ماي ندومبي”
- Basque: “Mai-Ndombe”
- Belarusian: “Маі-Ндомбэ”
- Bulgarian: “Маи-Ндомбе”
- Burmese: “မိုင်ဒွန်ဘီကန်”
- Cebuano: “Lac Mai-Ndombe”
- Chinese: “馬伊恩東貝湖”
- Chuvash: “Маи-Ндомбе”
- Croatian: “Mai-Ndombe (jezero)”
- Croatian: “Mai-Ndombe”
- Czech: “Leopoldovo jezero”
- Czech: “Mai Ndombe”
- Danish: “Mai-Ndombesøen”
- Dutch: “Mai-Ndombemeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ماى ندومبى”
- Estonian: “Mai-Ndombe järv”
- Finnish: “Mai-Ndombe-järvi”
- French: “lac Mai-Ndombe”
- French: “Lac Mai-Ndombe”
- Georgian: “მაი-ნდომბე”
- German: “Mai-Ndombe-See”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Mai-Ndombe”
- Hungarian: “Mai-Ndombe-tó”
- Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri Mai-Ndombe”
- Indonesian: “Danau Mai-Ndombe”
- Italian: “lago Mai-Ndombe”
- Italian: “Lago Mai-Ndombe”
- Japanese: “マインドンベ湖”
- Kongo: “Dizanga Mai-Ndombe”
- Latvian: “Maji-Ndombes ezers”
- Lingala: “Laki Mai-Ndombe”
- Lingala: “liziba mai-ndombe”
- Lithuanian: “Mai Ndombė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mai-Ndombe-sjøen”
- Norwegian: “Mai-Ndombe-sjøen”
- Polish: “Mai-Ndombe”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mai-Indombe”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mai-Ndombe”
- Russian: “Маи-Ндомбе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mai-Ndombe (jezero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mai-Ndombe”
- Slovak: “Mai-Ndombe”
- Somali: “Harada Mai-Ndombe”
- Spanish: “Lago Mai-Ndombe”
- Swahili: “Lac Mai-Ndombe”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Mai-Ndombe”
- Swedish: “Mai-Ndombesjön”
- Tswana: “Letsha la Mai-Ndombe”
- Ukrainian: “Маї-Ндомбе”
- Venetian: “lago Mai-Ndombe”
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