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.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 144 metres (472 feet)
- …is also known as “Toshka Depression”
- Description: fresh water lakes in Egypt
Toshka Lakes
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Latitude
23.1° or 23° 6′ north
Longitude
30.9° or 30° 54′ east
Open location code
7GMG3WX2+X2
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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”
- Hausa: “Tafkin Toshka”
- Igbo: “Ọdọ Mmiri 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”
- Somali: “Harooyinka Toshka”
- Swedish: “Toshka Lakes”
- Ukrainian: “Тошка”
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