Toshka Lakes
Toshka Lakes is the name given to recently formed endorheic lakes in the Sahara Desert of Egypt. Their presence is caused by periodic overflow from Lake Nasser.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: fresh water lakes in Egypt
- Also known as: “Toshka Depression”
Toshka Lakes
- Categories: group of lakes, endorheic basin, and body of water
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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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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