Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particularly through lake-effect snow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: salt lake in Utah, United States
- Also known as: “Timpanogas”
Great Salt Lake
- Categories: hypersaline lake, salt lake, and body of water
- Location: Box Elder, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Salt Lake” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Groot Soutmeer”
- Arabic: “Great Salt Lake”
- Arabic: “البحيرة المالحة الكبرى”
- Arabic: “البحيرة المالحة الكبيرة”
- Arabic: “بحيرة الملح الكبرى”
- Arabic: “بحيرة الملح”
- Arabic: “بحيرة سالت ليك”
- Arabic: “بحيرة سولت ليك”
- Armenian: “Մեծ աղի լիճ”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Duzlu göl”
- Basque: “Aintzira Gazi Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікае Салёнае возера”
- Bengali: “গ্রেট সল্ট লেক”
- Bhojpuri: “ग्रेट साल्ट लेक”
- Breton: “Great Salt Lake”
- Breton: “Lenn Sall Veur”
- Breton: “Lenn Sall Vras”
- Breton: “Lenn Sall”
- Bulgarian: “Голямо солено езеро”
- Catalan: “Gran Llac Salat”
- Catalan: “Great Salt Lake”
- Chinese: “大盐湖”
- Chinese: “大鹽湖”
- Chuvash: “Мăн Тăвар кӳлли”
- Czech: “Great Salt Lake”
- Czech: “Velké Solné jezero”
- Danish: “Great Salt Lake”
- Dutch: “Great Salt Lake”
- Dutch: “Groot Zoutmeer”
- Dutch: “Grote Zoutmeer”
- Esperanto: “Granda Sala Lago”
- Esperanto: “Valo Sallaga”
- Estonian: “Suur Soolajärv”
- Finnish: “Great Salt Lake”
- Finnish: “Iso Suolajärvi”
- Finnish: “Salt Lake”
- Finnish: “Suuri Suolajärvi”
- French: “Grand Lac Sale”
- French: “Grand Lac Salé”
- French: “Great Salt Lake”
- Galician: “Gran Lago Salgado”
- Galician: “Grande Lago Salgado”
- Georgian: “დიდი მლაშე ტბა”
- German: “Great Salt Lake”
- German: “Grosser Salzsee”
- German: “Großer Salzsee”
- Greek: “Μεγάλη Αλμυρή Λίμνη”
- Hebrew: “ימת המלח הגדולה”
- Hindi: “ग्रेट साल्ट लेक”
- Hindi: “महान नमक झील”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-sóstó”
- Icelandic: “Stóra-Saltvatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Garam Besar”
- Indonesian: “Great Salt Lake”
- Interlingua: “Grande Laco Salate”
- Italian: “Gran Lago Salato”
- Italian: “Grande Lago Salato”
- Italian: “Great Salt Lake”
- Japanese: “グレート・ソルト・レイク”
- Japanese: “グレートソルトレーク”
- Japanese: “グレートソルトレイク”
- Japanese: “グレートソルト湖”
- Kazakh: “Үлкен тұзды көл”
- Kazakh: “ҮЛКЕН ТҰЗДЫ КӨЛ”
- Kirghiz: “Чоң туздуу көл”
- Korean: “그레이트솔트 호”
- Korean: “그레이트솔트호”
- Latvian: “Great Salt Lake”
- Latvian: “Greitsaltleiks”
- Latvian: “Lielais Sālsezers”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Druskos ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Druskų ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Големо Солено Езеро”
- Northern Sami: “Stuorra Sáltejávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Salt Lake”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Store Saltsjø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Salt Lake”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Store Saltsjø”
- Norwegian: “Store Saltsjø”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੇਟ ਸੌਲਟ ਲੇਕ”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Persian: “دریاچه بزرگ نمک”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ بزرگ نمک”
- Persian: “دریاچه نمک یوتا”
- Persian: “دریاچهٔ نمک یوتا”
- Polish: “Wielkie Jezioro Słone”
- Portuguese: “Grande Lago Salgado”
- Portuguese: “Great Salt Lake”
- Romanian: “Great Salt Lake”
- Romanian: “Marele Lac Sărat”
- Russian: “Great Salt Lake”
- Russian: “Большое Соленое озеро”
- Russian: “Большое Солёное озеро”
- Russian: “Большое Соленое”
- Russian: “Большое Солёное”
- Russian: “Грейт Солт Лейк”
- Russian: “Грейт-Солт-Лейк”
- Sardinian: “Lagu Salidu Mannu”
- Serbian: “Veliko slano jezero”
- Serbian: “Велико слано језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Veliko slano jezero”
- Slovak: “Veľké soľné jazero”
- Slovenian: “Veliko slano jezero”
- Spanish: “Gran Lago Salado”
- Swedish: “Great Salt Lake”
- Swedish: “Stora Saltsjön”
- Swedish: “The Great Salt Lake”
- Tamil: “பெரிய உப்பு ஏரி”
- Thai: “Great Salt Lake”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบเกรต ซอลต์ เลค”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบเกรตซอลต์”
- Turkish: “Büyük Tuz Gölü”
- Uighur: “چوڭ تۇزلۇق كۆل”
- Ukrainian: “Велике Солоне озеро”
- Urdu: “گریٹ سالٹ لیک”
- Uzbek: “Katta shoʻr koʻl”
- Uzbek: “Katta Shoʻr koʻl”
- Vietnamese: “Great Salt Lake”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Great Salt”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Muối Lớn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dako nga Maasin nga Danaw”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dako nga Mapag-ad nga Danaw”
- Waray (Philippines): “Great Salt Lake”
- Welsh: “Great Salt Lake”
- Welsh: “Llyn Great Salt”
- Western Frisian: “Grutte Sâltmar”
- Wu Chinese: “大盐湖”
- Yue Chinese: “大鹽湖”
- “telo namako suli”
- “telo namako suli pi ma Juta”
- “ग्रेट साल्ट लेक”
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