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.
- Type: Lake
- Description: salt lake in Utah, United States
- Also known as: “Dako nga Maasin nga Danaw”, “Grand Lac Sale”, “Grande Lago Salato”, “Greitsaltleiks”, “Groot Zoutmeer”, “Grote Zoutmeer”, “Hồ Great Salt”, “Lenn Sall”, “Lenn Sall Vras”, “Salt Lake”, “Suuri Suolajärvi”, “The Great Salt Lake”, “Timpanogas”, “Valo Sallaga”, “Большое Соленое”, “Большое Солёное”, “Большое Соленое озеро”, “Грейт Солт Лейк”, “Грейт-Солт-Лейк”, “ҮЛКЕН ТҰЗДЫ КӨЛ”, “البحيرة المالحة الكبيرة”, “بحيرة الملح”, “بحيرة الملح الكبرى”, “بحيرة سالت ليك”, “بحيرة سولت ليك”, “خلیج عقبه”, “دریاچه بزرگ نمک”, “دریاچهٔ بزرگ نمک”, “دریاچهٔ نمک یوتا”, “ทะเลสาบเกรต ซอลต์ เลค”, “グレート・ソルト・レイク”, “グレートソルトレーク”, and “グレートソルトレイク”
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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Latitude
41.16266° or 41° 9′ 46″ north
Longitude
-112.53491° or 112° 32′ 6″ west
Elevation
4,203 feet (1,281 metres)
Open location code
85H95F78+32
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Salt Lake” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Groot Soutmeer”
- Arabic: “البحيرة المالحة الكبرى”
- 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: “Lenn Sall Veur”
- Bulgarian: “Голямо солено езеро”
- Catalan: “Gran Llac Salat”
- Chinese: “大盐湖”
- Chinese: “大鹽湖”
- Chuvash: “Мăн Тăвар кӳлли”
- Czech: “Velké Solné jezero”
- Danish: “Great Salt Lake”
- Dutch: “Great Salt Lake”
- Esperanto: “Granda Sala Lago”
- Estonian: “Suur Soolajärv”
- Finnish: “Iso Suolajärvi”
- French: “Grand Lac Salé”
- Galician: “Gran Lago Salgado”
- Georgian: “დიდი მლაშე ტბა”
- German: “Grosser Salzsee”
- German: “Großer Salzsee”
- Greek: “Μεγάλη Αλμυρή Λίμνη”
- Hebrew: “ימת המלח הגדולה”
- Hindi: “महान नमक झील”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-sóstó”
- Icelandic: “Stóra-Saltvatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Garam Besar”
- Interlingua: “Grande Laco Salate”
- Italian: “Gran Lago Salato”
- Japanese: “グレートソルト湖”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Уллу Туз кёл”
- Kazakh: “Үлкен тұзды көл”
- Kirghiz: “Чоң туздуу көл”
- Korean: “그레이트솔트 호”
- Korean: “그레이트솔트호”
- Latvian: “Lielais Sālsezers”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Druskos ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Druskų ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Големо Солено Езеро”
- Northern Sami: “Stuorra Sáltejávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Store Saltsjø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Store Saltsjø”
- Norwegian: “Store Saltsjø”
- Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੇਟ ਸੌਲਟ ਲੇਕ”
- Persian: “دریاچه نمک یوتا”
- Polish: “Wielkie Jezioro Słone”
- Portuguese: “Grande Lago Salgado”
- Romanian: “Marele Lac Sărat”
- Russian: “Большое Солёное озеро”
- 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: “Stora Saltsjön”
- Tamil: “பெரிய உப்பு ஏரி”
- 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: “Hồ Muối Lớn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dako nga Mapag-ad nga Danaw”
- 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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