Lake Chilwa
Lake Chilwa is the second-largest lake in Malawi after Lake Malawi. It is in eastern Zomba District, near the border with Mozambique. Approximately 60 km long and 40 km wide, the lake is surrounded by extensive wetlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Malawi
- Also known as: “Lake Shirwa”
Lake Chilwa
- Categories: endorheic basin and body of water
- Location: Southern Malawi, Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Chilwa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Lake Chilwa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chilwameer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة تشلوة”
- Belarusian: “Чылва”
- Bhojpuri: “चिलवा झील”
- Burmese: “ချီဝကန်”
- Catalan: “Llac Chilwa”
- Chinese: “奇爾瓦湖”
- Croatian: “Chilwa”
- Czech: “Chilwa”
- Danish: “Chilwasøen”
- Dutch: “Chilwameer”
- Dutch: “Lake Chilwa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره تشلوه”
- Finnish: “Chilwajärvi”
- French: “lac Chilwa”
- French: “Lac Chilwa”
- Georgian: “ჩილვა”
- German: “Chilwa See”
- German: “Chilwa-See”
- German: “Shirwa See”
- Indonesian: “Danau Chilwa”
- Italian: “lago Chilwa”
- Italian: “Lago Chilwa”
- Japanese: “チルワ湖”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikiyaga cya Chilwa”
- Latvian: “Čilvas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Čilva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chilwasjøen”
- Norwegian: “Chilwasjøen”
- Nyanja: “Nyanja ya chirwa”
- Persian: “دریاچه چیلوا”
- Polish: “Chilwa”
- Portuguese: “Lago Chilua”
- Portuguese: “Lago Chilwa”
- Russian: “Чилва”
- Serbian: “Чилва”
- Spanish: “Lago Chilwa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Chilwa”
- Swedish: “Chilwasjön”
- Tumbuka: “Nyanja ya Chilwa”
- Turkish: “Chilwa Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Чилва”
- Venetian: “lago Chilwa”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Chilwa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Chilwa”
- Welsh: “Llyn Chilwa”
- “चिलवा झील”
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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 “Lake Chilwa”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.