Chott el Djerid

Chott el Djerid also spelled Sciott Gerid and Shott el Jerid, is a chott, a large endorheic salt lake in southern . The name can be translated from the Arabic into English as "Lagoon of the Land of Palms".
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: chott in Tunisia
  • Also known as: Chott Jrid”, “Sciott Gerid”, “Shott el Jerid”, and “Šoṭṭ el-Jarīd

Chott el Djerid

Latitude
33.7375° or 33° 44′ 15″ north
Longitude
8.3824° or 8° 22′ 57″ east
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8F5CP9PJ+XX
Geo­Names ID
11049537
Wiki­data ID
Q849143
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Chott el Djerid” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Chott el Jerid
  • Arabic: شط الجريد
  • Arabic: شط الجريد‎
  • Azerbaijani: Cərid gölü
  • Azerbaijani: Əl Dicerid
  • Basque: Chott el Djerid
  • Belarusian: Джэрыд
  • Belarusian: Шот-эль-Джэрыд
  • Bulgarian: Шот ел-Джерид
  • Bulgarian: Шот-ел-Джерид
  • Burmese: ချော့အယ်ဂျရစ်
  • Catalan: Chott El Djerid
  • Chinese: 傑里德大鹽湖
  • Chinese: 吉利特盐湖
  • Chinese: 杰里德大盐湖
  • Chuvash: Шотт-эль-Джерид
  • Czech: šot al-Džaríd
  • Czech: Šot al-Džaríd
  • Dutch: Chott Al-Djerid
  • Dutch: Chott el-Djerid
  • Dutch: Chott el-Jerid
  • Dutch: Sjott el djerid
  • Dutch: Sjott el-Djerid
  • Esperanto: Ŝot el Ĝerid
  • Finnish: Chott el Djerid
  • French: Chott El Jérid
  • French: Chott El-Jerid
  • French: Chott el-Jérid
  • Georgian: შოტ-ელ-ჯერიდი
  • German: Chott el Djerid
  • German: Chott
  • German: Schott el Dscherid
  • Hebrew: שט אל-ג’ריד
  • Italian: Chott el Djerid
  • Italian: Chott el Jerid
  • Italian: Chott el-Jerid
  • Italian: Shatt al Jarid
  • Japanese: ジェリド湖
  • Kazakh: Әл-Жәрид
  • Korean: 제리드 호
  • Korean: 제리드호
  • Latvian: Džerīds
  • Lithuanian: Džeridas
  • Lithuanian: El Džerido ežeras
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Chott al- Djerid
  • Persian: شط الجرید
  • Polish: Chott El Jerid
  • Polish: Jezioro Szatt al Dżarid
  • Polish: Szatt al Dżarid
  • Polish: Szatt al-Dżarid
  • Polish: Wielki Szott
  • Portuguese: Chott el Jerid
  • Portuguese: Chott el-Jerid
  • Russian: Джерид
  • Russian: Шотт-Джерид
  • Russian: Шотт-эль-Джерид
  • Russian: Эль-Джерид
  • Serbo-Croatian: Šot al-Džaríd
  • Slovenian: Chott el Djerid
  • Slovenian: Chott el Jerid
  • Spanish: Chott el Djerid
  • Swedish: Chott al-Djerid
  • Swedish: Chott el Djerid
  • Turkish: Şattü’l-Cerid
  • Ukrainian: Ель-Джерід
  • Ukrainian: Шотт-ель-Джерід
  • Venetian: Chott el-Jerid
  • Welsh: Chott El Jerid
  • Welsh: Chott el-Djerid
  • Welsh: Chott el-Jerid
  • Welsh: Chott Jerid

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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 “Chott el Djerid”. Photo: Kais photographies, CC BY-SA 4.0.