Toshka Lakes

Toshka Lakes is the name given to recently formed endorheic lakes in the Sahara Desert of . Their presence is caused by periodic overflow from Lake Nasser.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: fresh water lakes in Egypt
  • Also known as: Toshka Depression

Toshka Lakes

Latitude
23.1° or 23° 6′ north
Longitude
30.9° or 30° 54′ east
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
Open location code
7GMG3WX2+X2
Geo­Names ID
7839160
Wiki­data ID
Q2601819
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Toshka Lakes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بحيرات توشكى‎
  • Arabic: بحيرات توشكى
  • Arabic: ترعة الشيخ زايد
  • Arabic: توشكى
  • Arabic: خور توشكى
  • Arabic: شلالات توشكى
  • Arabic: قناة الشيخ زايد
  • Arabic: قناة توشكى
  • Arabic: محور توشكى
  • Arabic: مشروع توشكى
  • Arabic: مفيض توشكى
  • Arabic: منخفض توشكى
  • Arabic: هدارات توشكى
  • Arabic: وادي توشكى
  • Basque: Toshka aintzirak
  • Burmese: တော့ကာကန်များ
  • Cebuano: Toshka Lakes
  • Central Kurdish: دەریاچەکانی تۆشکا
  • Chinese: 托西卡湖泊
  • Chuvash: Тошка
  • Egyptian Arabic: بحيرات توشكى
  • French: lacs de Toshka
  • French: Lacs de Toshka
  • Indonesian: Danau-danau Toshka
  • Macedonian: Тошка
  • Polish: Buhajrat Tuszka
  • Polish: Jeziora Toszka
  • Russian: Тошка
  • Serbian: Jezera Toška
  • Serbian: Језера Тошка
  • Serbian: Језеро Тошка
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jezera Toška
  • Swedish: Toshka Lakes
  • Ukrainian: Тошка

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Toshka Lakes”. Photo: Tpe.g5.stan, CC0.