Lake Ichkeul
Lake Ichkeul is a lake in northern Tunisia, located 20 kilometres to Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa on the Mediterranean Sea. The lake and wetlands of Ichkeul National Park are an important stopping-over point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds each year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia
- Also known as: “Garaet Achkel”, “Garaet Ichkeul”, “Ichkeul lake”, “Lac de l’Ichkeul”, “Lac de l’Ishkoel”, “Lake Ishkel”, and “Qar‘at al Ashkal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ichkeul National Park and Geological Museum.
Ichkeul National Park
Photo: Jalou111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ichkeul National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, located in the commune of Tinja.
Geological Museum
Museum
Photo: Kalechnizar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Geological Museum is situated 3½ km southeast of Lake Ichkeul.
Lake Ichkeul
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Ichkeul from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Lake Ichkeul” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحديقة الوطنية باشكل”
- Arabic: “بحيرة إشكل”
- Arabic: “بحيرة اشكل”
- Arabic: “بحيرة اشكل”
- Arabic: “محمية اشكل”
- Arabic: “محميه إشكل”
- Basque: “Ichkeul aintzira”
- Bulgarian: “Ишкил”
- Burmese: “အစ်ရှ်ကူးကန်”
- Catalan: “Llac d’Ichkeul”
- Catalan: “Parc Nacional d’Ichkeul”
- Cebuano: “Garaet el Ichkeul”
- Chinese: “伊其克乌尔湖”
- Croatian: “Ičkeul”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni park Ichkeul”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni park Ičkeul”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni park Iškel”
- Czech: “Ichkeul”
- Danish: “Ichkeul”
- Dutch: “Ichkeul”
- Finnish: “Ichkeulin kansallispuisto”
- French: “lac Ichkeul”
- French: “Lac Ichkeul”
- Galician: “Lago de Ichkeul”
- Georgian: “იშკელის ტბა”
- Georgian: “იშქელის ტბა”
- German: “Ichkeul”
- German: “Ischkul-See”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ισκέλ”
- Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי אישקל”
- Hungarian: “Iskul Nemzeti Park”
- Indonesian: “Danau Ichkeul”
- Italian: “Ichkeul lake”
- Italian: “Lago Ichkeul”
- Japanese: “イシュケル国立公園”
- Japanese: “イシュケル湖”
- Lithuanian: “Ičkeulis”
- Macedonian: “Ишкел”
- Maithili: “इचेकुल राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज”
- Malayalam: “ഇഷ്കൂൾ തടാകം”
- Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali ta‘ Ichkeul”
- Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali ta’ Ichkeul”
- Nepali: “इचेकुल राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ichkeul nasjonalpark”
- Persian: “دریاچه اشکل”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ اشکل”
- Polish: “Al-Aszkal”
- Polish: “Aszkal”
- Polish: “Ichkeul”
- Polish: “Jezioro Al-Aszkal”
- Polish: “Jezioro Aszkal”
- Polish: “Jezioro Ichkeul”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Al-Aszkal”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Aszkal”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Ichkeul”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional de Ichkeul”
- Russian: “Гараэт-эль-Ишкёль”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ichkeul”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional del Ichkeul”
- Swedish: “Ichkeul nationalpark”
- Swedish: “Ichkeul”
- Turkish: “Ichkeul Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ішкель”
- Ukrainian: “Національний парк Ішкель”
- Venetian: “lago Ichkeul”
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