Shatt al Gharsah
Shatt al Gharsah, Chott el Gharsa is a sedimentary basin and also intermittent salt lake in Tunisia, near the border with Algeria. It has width of 20 kilometres and length of 50 kilometres. At 17 metres below sea level it is at the lowest point of the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Sabkha
- Description: chott in Tunisia
- Also known as: “Chott el Rharsa”, “Chott Rharsa”, and “Šaṭṭ al-Ġarsa”
Shatt al Gharsah
- Categories: chott and landform
- Location: Tozeur Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Shatt al Gharsah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شط الغرسة”
- Arabic: “شط الغَرْسَة”
- Belarusian: “Шот-эль-Гарса”
- Burmese: “ရှတ်အယ်ဂါဆက်”
- Catalan: “Chott El Gharsa”
- Cebuano: “Shaţţ al Gharsah”
- Chuvash: “Шотт-эль-Гарса”
- French: “Chott el-Gharsa”
- German: “Chott el Gharsa”
- Hebrew: “שט אל ג’רש”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shatt al Gharsah”
- Polish: “Szatt al-Gharsa”
- Russian: “Шотт-эль-Гарса”
- Russian: “Эль-Гарса”
- Spanish: “Shatt al Gharsah”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Гарса”
- Ukrainian: “Шотт-ель-Гарса”
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