Lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land.Photo: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: body of relatively still water, localized in a basin
- Also known as: “Freshwater Lake”, “lake”, and “lakes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ski Cape Smokey.
Ski Cape Smokey
Ski Cape Smokey is a ski hill located in Ingonish Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada; a coastal community on the Cabot Trail, flanking the boundary of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Cape Breton. Ski Cape Smokey is situated 3½ km southwest of Lake.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ingonish.
Ingonish
Ingonish, Ingonish Beach, Ingonish Ferry, Ingonish Centre and South Ingonish Harbour are five small tourist settlements on the northwestern corner of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, next to Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Lake
- Categories: feature type, still waters, open water, landform, overground still body of fresh water, and body of water
- Location: Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Lake” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “tasék”
- Achinese: “Tasék”
- Afrikaans: “meer”
- Afrikaans: “Meer”
- Albanian: “liqe”
- Albanian: “liqen”
- Albanian: “liqeni”
- Albanian: “Liqeni”
- Amharic: “ሀይቅ”
- Amis: “fanaway”
- Amis: “Fanaway”
- Arabic: “بحيرات الماء”
- Arabic: “بحيرات”
- Arabic: “بحيرة”
- Arabic: “بحيره”
- Aragonese: “laco (cheografía)”
- Aragonese: “laco”
- Aragonese: “Laco”
- Armenian: “լիճ”
- Armenian: “Լիճ”
- Armenian: “լճեր”
- Arpitan: “lèc”
- Arpitan: “Lèc”
- Asturian: “llagos”
- Asturian: “llagu”
- Asturian: “Llagu”
- Atikamekw: “sakihikan”
- Atikamekw: “Sakihikan”
- Avaric: “хӏор”
- Avaric: “ХӀор”
- Awadhi: “झील”
- Aymara: “quta”
- Aymara: “Quta”
- Azerbaijani: “göl”
- Azerbaijani: “Göl”
- Balinese: “danu”
- Balinese: “Danu”
- Banjar: “danau”
- Banjar: “danaw”
- Banjar: “Danaw”
- Bashkir: “күл”
- Bashkir: “Күл”
- Basque: “aintzira”
- Basque: “Aintzira”
- Basque: “Laku”
- Belarusian: “возера”
- Belarusian: “Возера”
- Bengali: “হ্রদ”
- Betawi: “sètu”
- Betawi: “Sètu”
- Bhojpuri: “झील”
- Bhojpuri: “ताल”
- Bosnian: “jezera”
- Bosnian: “jezero”
- Bosnian: “Jezero”
- Breton: “lenn (dour)”
- Breton: “lenn”
- Breton: “Lenn”
- Bulgarian: “езера”
- Bulgarian: “езеро”
- Bulgarian: “Езеро”
- Burmese: “ရေကန်”
- Catalan: “estany”
- Catalan: “llac”
- Catalan: “Llac”
- Catalan: “llacs”
- Cebuano: “lanaw”
- Cebuano: “Lanaw”
- Central Bikol: “danaw”
- Central Bikol: “Danaw”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچە”
- Chechen: “Ӏам”
- Chinese: “Ô͘”
- Chinese: “埤塘”
- Chinese: “湖”
- Chinese: “湖泊”
- Chinese: “潭”
- Chuvash: “кӳлĕ”
- Chuvash: “Кӳлĕ”
- Cornish: “lynn”
- Crimean Tatar: “göl”
- Crimean Tatar: “Göl”
- Croatian: “jezero”
- Croatian: “Jezero”
- Czech: “jezero”
- Czech: “Jezero”
- Danish: “indsø”
- Danish: “sø”
- Danish: “Sø”
- Dimli (individual language): “gol”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gol”
- Dutch: “meer (watervlakte)”
- Dutch: “meer”
- Dutch: “Meer”
- Dutch: “meren”
- Dutch: “plas”
- Dutch: “waterplas”
- Eastern Mari: “ер”
- Eastern Mari: “Ер”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره”
- Erzya: “эрьке”
- Erzya: “Эрьке”
- Esperanto: “lago”
- Esperanto: “Lago”
- Estonian: “järv”
- Estonian: “Järv”
- Estonian: “järved”
- Farefare: “kulega bii kulebila”
- Farefare: “kulega”
- Fijian: “drano”
- Fijian: “Drano”
- Finnish: “järvet”
- Finnish: “järvi”
- Finnish: “Järvi”
- Finnish: “järviallas”
- French: “lac”
- French: “Lac”
- Friulian: “lâc”
- Friulian: “lât”
- Friulian: “Lât”
- Galician: “Iago”
- Galician: “lago”
- Galician: “Lago”
- Gan Chinese: “湖”
- Georgian: “ტბა”
- Georgian: “ტბები”
- German: “Binnensee”
- German: “Binnenseen”
- German: “Landsee”
- German: “Landseen”
- German: “See”
- German: “Seen”
- Gorontalo: “bulalo”
- Gorontalo: “Bulalo”
- Greek: “λίμνες”
- Greek: “λίμνη”
- Greek: “Λίμνη”
- Guarani: “ypa”
- Guarani: “Ypa”
- Guianese Creole French: “lak”
- Guianese Creole French: “Lak”
- Gujarati: “તળાવ”
- Haitian: “lak”
- Haitian: “Lak”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fù”
- Hausa: “tafki”
- Hausa: “Tafki”
- Hebrew: “אגם”
- Hebrew: “ימה”
- Hindi: “झील”
- Hindi: “सरोवर”
- Hungarian: “tó”
- Hungarian: “Tó”
- Icelandic: “stöðuvatn”
- Icelandic: “Stöðuvatn”
- Ido: “lago”
- Ido: “Lago”
- Iloko: “dan-aw”
- Iloko: “danaw”
- Iloko: “Danaw”
- Inari Sami: “jävri”
- Inari Sami: “Jävri”
- Indonesian: “danau”
- Indonesian: “Danau”
- Ingush: “Iам”
- Ingush: “Ӏам”
- Interlingua: “laco”
- Interlingua: “Laco”
- Interlingue: “lago”
- Interlingue: “Lago”
- Inuktitut: “ᑕᓯᖅ”
- Irish: “loch”
- Irish: “Loch”
- Italian: “bacino lacustre”
- Italian: “laghi”
- Italian: “lago”
- Italian: “Lago”
- Italian: “specchio d’acqua”
- Japanese: “みずうみ”
- Japanese: “湖”
- Javanese: “tlaga”
- Javanese: “Tlaga”
- Kabyle: “agelmim”
- Kabyle: “Agelmim”
- Kannada: “ಕೆರೆ”
- Kannada: “ಸರೋವರ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “kól”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kól”
- Kashmiri: “سَر”
- Kazakh: “көл”
- Kazakh: “Көл”
- Khmer: “បឹង”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga”
- Kirghiz: “көл”
- Kirghiz: “Көл”
- Komering: “danau”
- Komering: “Danau”
- Komi: “ты”
- Komi: “Ты”
- Korean: “호소”
- Korean: “호수”
- Kotava: “uzda”
- Kotava: “Uzda”
- Kurdish: “gol”
- Kurdish: “Gol”
- Ladin: “lech”
- Ladin: “Lech”
- Latgalian: “azars”
- Latin: “lacus”
- Latin: “Lacus”
- Latvian: “ezeri”
- Latvian: “ezers”
- Latvian: “Ezers”
- Lingala: “etánda”
- Lingala: “etímá”
- Lingala: “Etímá”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “lago”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Lago”
- Lithuanian: “ežeras”
- Lithuanian: “Ežeras”
- Livvi: “järvi”
- Livvi: “Järvi”
- Lojban: “lalxu”
- Lombard: “lach”
- Lombard: “lagh”
- Lombard: “Lagh”
- Low German: “Binnensee”
- Low German: “meer”
- Low German: “Meer”
- Low German: “see (Binnenland)”
- Low German: “See”
- Lower Sorbian: “jazor”
- Lower Sorbian: “Jazor”
- Lower Sorbian: “jazoro”
- Lule Sami: “jávrre”
- Luxembourgish: “Séi”
- Macedonian: “езеро”
- Macedonian: “Езеро”
- Magahi: “झील”
- Magahi: “ताल”
- Magahi: “सरोवर”
- Malagasy: “farihy”
- Malagasy: “Farihy”
- Malay: “tasik”
- Malay: “Tasik”
- Malay: “تاسيق”
- Malayalam: “Lake”
- Malayalam: “തടാകം”
- Malayalam: “തടാകം”
- Maltese: “lag”
- Manchu: “ᠨᠣᠣᡵ”
- Manchu: “ᡨᡝᠩᡤᡳᠨ”
- Manx: “logh”
- Manx: “Logh”
- Maori: “roto”
- Maori: “Roto”
- Marathi: “तलाव”
- Marathi: “सरोवर”
- Mazanderani: “دریاچه”
- Mazanderani: “دریوچه”
- Min Dong Chinese: “hù”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hù”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ô·”
- Min Nan Chinese: “ô͘”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ô͘”
- Minangkabau: “danau”
- Minangkabau: “Danau”
- Mingrelian: “ტობა”
- Mirandese: “lago”
- Mirandese: “Lhago”
- Moksha: “эрьхке”
- Moksha: “Эрьхке”
- Mongolian: “нуур”
- Mongolian: “Нуур”
- Narom: “mare”
- Narom: “Mare”
- Neapolitan: “laco”
- Neapolitan: “Laco”
- Nepali: “तलाउ”
- Nepali: “ताल”
- Newari: “पुखु”
- Northern Frisian: “sia”
- Northern Frisian: “Sia”
- Northern Sami: “jávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “innsjø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Innsjø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “sjø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “vann”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “innsjø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Innsjø”
- Norwegian: “Innsjø”
- Obolo: “okwaan̄ oyô”
- Obolo: “oyô”
- Occitan (post 1500): “estanh”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estanh”
- Occitan (post 1500): “lac”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܬܐ”
- Oriya: “ହ୍ରଦ”
- Oromo: “hara”
- Oromo: “Hara”
- Ossetian: “цæдтæ”
- Ossetian: “цад”
- Ossetian: “Цад”
- Pa'o Karen: “ထီနောင်”
- Panjabi: “ਝੀਲ”
- Papiamento: “lago (kurpa di awa)”
- Papiamento: “lago”
- Papiamento: “Lago”
- Papiamento: “meer”
- Persian: “جهیل”
- Persian: “دریاچه”
- Piemontese: “lagh”
- Piemontese: “Lagh”
- Polish: “jezioro”
- Polish: “Jezioro”
- Portuguese: “lacustre”
- Portuguese: “lago”
- Portuguese: “Lago”
- Pushto: “جهيل”
- Pushto: “ډنډ”
- Quechua: “qocha”
- Quechua: “qucha”
- Quechua: “Qucha”
- Romanian: “lac”
- Romanian: “Lac”
- Romanian: “lacustru”
- Romansh: “lai”
- Romansh: “Lai”
- Russia Buriat: “нуур”
- Russia Buriat: “Нуур”
- Russian: “озёра”
- Russian: “озеро”
- Russian: “Озеро”
- Rusyn: “озеро”
- Rusyn: “Озеро”
- Samogitian: “ežers”
- Scots: “loch”
- Scots: “Loch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “loch uisge”
- Scottish Gaelic: “loch-uisge”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch-uisge”
- Serbian: “jezero”
- Serbian: “језера”
- Serbian: “језеро”
- Serbian: “Језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “jezera”
- Serbo-Croatian: “jezero”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero”
- Shan: “ၼွင်”
- Shan: “ၼွင်ၼမ်ႉ”
- Shona: “nyanza”
- Shona: “Nyanza”
- Sicilian: “lacu”
- Sicilian: “Lacu”
- Sicilian: “lagu”
- Sindhi: “ڍنڍ”
- Sinhala: “විල”
- Sinhala: “විල්”
- Skolt Sami: “jäuʹrr”
- Slovak: “jazero”
- Slovak: “Jazero”
- Slovenian: “jezero”
- Slovenian: “Jezero”
- South Azerbaijani: “گؤل”
- Southern Sami: “jaevrie”
- Spanish: “lago”
- Spanish: “Lago”
- Spanish: “lagos”
- Spanish: “laguna”
- Spanish: “lagunas”
- Sundanese: “dano”
- Sundanese: “situ”
- Sundanese: “Situ”
- Sundanese: “talaga”
- Swahili: “ziwa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa”
- Swedish: “insjö”
- Swedish: “Insjö”
- Swedish: “sjö”
- Swiss German: “See”
- Tachelhit: “aglmam”
- Tachelhit: “Aglmam”
- Tagalog: “lawa-lawaan”
- Tagalog: “lawa”
- Tagalog: “Lawa”
- Tagalog: “lawalawaan”
- Tajik: “кӯл”
- Tajik: “Кӯл”
- Tamil: “ஏரி”
- Tatar: “күл”
- Tatar: “Күл”
- Telugu: “సరస్సు”
- Telugu: “సరస్సులు”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบ”
- Thai: “บึง”
- Thai: “แหล่งน้ำจืด”
- Tibetan: “མཚོ”
- Tosk Albanian: “See”
- Turkish: “doğal göl”
- Turkish: “göl”
- Turkish: “Göl”
- Turkmen: “kol”
- Turkmen: “Kol”
- Twi: “asutadeɛ”
- Twi: “ɔtadeɛ”
- Udmurt: “ты”
- Udmurt: “Ты”
- Ukrainian: “загатне озеро”
- Ukrainian: “озерність”
- Ukrainian: “озеро”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро”
- Upper Sorbian: “jězor”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jězor”
- Upper Sorbian: “jězory”
- Urdu: “جھیل”
- Uzbek: “koʻl”
- Uzbek: “Koʻl”
- Uzbek: “lago”
- Venetian: “lago”
- Venetian: “łago”
- Venetian: “Łago”
- Vietnamese: “hồ nước”
- Vietnamese: “hồ”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ”
- Vlaams: “Lac”
- Võro: “järv”
- Waray (Philippines): “danaw”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw”
- Welsh: “llyn”
- Welsh: “Llyn”
- Western Armenian: “լիճ”
- Western Armenian: “Լիճ”
- Western Frisian: “mar”
- Western Frisian: “Mar”
- Western Frisian: “marren”
- Western Mari: “йӓр”
- Western Mari: “Йӓр”
- Western Panjabi: “جھیل”
- Wolof: “ngéej”
- Wolof: “Ngéej”
- Wu Chinese: “湖”
- Wu Chinese: “湖泊”
- Yakut: “күөл”
- Yakut: “Күөл”
- Yiddish: “אגם”
- Yiddish: “אזיערע”
- Yiddish: “אזערע”
- Yiddish: “אָזערע”
- Yiddish: “וואסער איינזאמלונג”
- Yiddish: “וואסער איינזאמעלונג”
- Yiddish: “לעיק”
- Yoruba: “adágún”
- Yoruba: “Adágún”
- Yoruba: “lake”
- Yue Chinese: “湖”
- Yue Chinese: “湖泊”
- Zhuang: “huz”
- Zhuang: “Huz”
- Zulu: “ichibi”
- Zulu: “Ichibi”
- “ātezcatl”
- “Ežers”
- “Järv”
- “lago”
- “lèg”
- “Lèg”
- “lègh”
- “झील”
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