Chott Melrhir
Chott Melrhir, also known as Chott Melghir or Chott Melhir and Lake Tritonis in ancient myths, is an endorheic chott-kind of salt lake in northeastern Algeria.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Sabkha
- Description: salt lake
- Also known as: “Chott Melhir”, “Chott Melrir”, and “Shott Melghir”
Chott Melrhir
- Categories: salt lake, chott, and landform
- Location: Biskra Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Chott Melrhir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شط ملغيغ”
- Arabic: “شط ملغيغ”
- Belarusian: “Шот-Мельгір”
- Bulgarian: “Шот Мелрир”
- Burmese: “ချော့မယ်ဟာ”
- Catalan: “Chott Melrhir”
- Cebuano: “Chott Melrhir”
- Chinese: “梅爾希爾鹽湖”
- Chinese: “邁勒吉爾鹽湖”
- Chuvash: “Шотт-Мельгир”
- Czech: “šot Melrhir”
- Czech: “Šot Melrhir”
- Dutch: “Chott Melrhir”
- Finnish: “Chott Melrhir”
- French: “Chott Melghir”
- French: “Chott Melrhir”
- Galician: “Chott Melrhir”
- Georgian: “შოტ-მელჰირი”
- German: “Schott Melghir”
- Greek: “Σοτ Μελρίρ”
- Hebrew: “שוט מלע’יע‘”
- Hungarian: “Melgír-sott”
- Hungarian: “Melrhir-sott”
- Indonesian: “Chott Melrhir”
- Italian: “Chott Melrhir”
- Japanese: “メルリール湖”
- Kabyle: “Ceṭṭ Melɣiɣ”
- Latvian: “Melhīrs”
- Lithuanian: “Šot Melrhiras”
- Moroccan Arabic: “شط ملغيغ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chott Melrhir”
- Persian: “شط ملغیغ”
- Polish: “Szatt Malghigh”
- Portuguese: “Chott Melrhir”
- Russian: “Мельгир”
- Russian: “Шотт-Мельгир”
- Slovenian: “šot Melrhir”
- Spanish: “Chott Melrhir”
- Swedish: “Chott Melrhir”
- Turkish: “Melrhir Tuz Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Мельгір”
- Ukrainian: “Шотт-Мельгір”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chott Melrhir”
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