Lake Fitri
Lake Fitri is a shallow freshwater lake in central Chad, located in the Sahel region about 300 km east of N’Djamena. It has been designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Batha Region, Chad
- Also known as: “Lac Fitri” and “Lac Fittri”
Lake Fitri
- Category: body of water
- Location: Batha Region, Chad, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.898° or 12° 53′ 53″ northLongitude
17.429° or 17° 25′ 44″ eastElevation
288 metres (945 feet)Open location code
7F4VVCXH+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 7732127515OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
2432602Wikidata ID
Q720617
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Fitri from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Fitri” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة فيتري”
- Belarusian: “Возера Фітры”
- Belarusian: “Фітры”
- Burmese: “ဖီထရီကန်”
- Catalan: “lac Fitri”
- Chinese: “菲特里湖”
- Chuvash: “Фитри”
- Dutch: “Fitrimeer”
- Dutch: “Lake Fitri”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره فيترى”
- French: “lac Fitri”
- French: “Lac Fitri”
- Georgian: “ფიტრის ტბა”
- German: “Fitri-See”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Φίτρη”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Φιτρί”
- Indonesian: “Danau Fitri”
- Italian: “lago Fitri”
- Italian: “Lago Fitri”
- Japanese: “フィトリ湖”
- Lithuanian: “Fitris”
- Polish: “Fitri”
- Russian: “Фитри”
- Spanish: “Lago Fitri”
- Turkish: “Fitri Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Фітрі”
- Venetian: “lago Fitri”
- Welsh: “Llyn Fitri”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Fitri”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.