Chilika Lake
The Chilika Lake at the South Coast of Odisha is Asia's largest saltwater lagoon and is separated from the Bay of Bengal by a sandy ridge. Balugaon and Rambha are two major towns serving as entry points for the lake.Photo: Krupasindhu Muduli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lagoon
- Description: lagoon in India
- Also known as: “Chilka Lake”
Chilika Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Odisha, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Chilika Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Assamese to Western Panjabi—“Chilika Lake” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “চিল্কা হ্ৰদ”
- Bengali: “চিল্কা হ্রদ”
- Bhojpuri: “चिल्का झील”
- Catalan: “Chilka”
- Cebuano: “Chilika Lake”
- Chinese: “吉尔卡湖”
- Chinese: “吉爾卡湖”
- Chuvash: “Чилика”
- Dutch: “Chilkameer”
- Esperanto: “Chilika”
- Esperanto: “Chilka Lago”
- Esperanto: “Chilka”
- Esperanto: “Ĉiliko”
- Esperanto: “Lago Ĉiliko”
- French: “lac Chilika”
- French: “Lac Chilika”
- German: “Chilika-See”
- Hindi: “चिलिका झील”
- Hindi: “चिलिका”
- Hindi: “चिल्का झील”
- Hungarian: “Csilika-tó”
- Hungarian: “Csilka-tó”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಲ್ಕ ಸರೋವರ”
- Malayalam: “Chilika Lake”
- Malayalam: “Chilka lake”
- Malayalam: “ചിൽക്ക തടാകം”
- Marathi: “चिलीका सरोवर”
- Marathi: “चिल्का सरोवर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chilika”
- Norwegian: “Chilika”
- Oriya: “Chilika Lake”
- Oriya: “ଚିଲିକା ଲେକ”
- Oriya: “ଚିଲିକା ହ୍ରଦ”
- Oriya: “ଚିଲିକା”
- Panjabi: “ਚਿਲਕਾ ਝੀਲ”
- Polish: “Ćilika”
- Polish: “Ćilka”
- Polish: “Czilka”
- Russian: “Chilika”
- Russian: “Чилика”
- Russian: “Чилка”
- Sanskrit: “चिल्का सरोवरम्”
- Santali: “ᱪᱤᱞᱤᱠᱟ ᱡᱚᱞᱟ”
- Spanish: “Lago Chilika”
- Spanish: “Lago Chilka”
- Swedish: “Chilka”
- Tamil: “சில்கா ஏரி”
- Telugu: “చిలికా సరస్సు”
- Ukrainian: “Чиліка”
- Ukrainian: “Чіліка”
- Urdu: “چیلیکا جھیل”
- Western Panjabi: “چلکا جھیل”
- “चिल्का झील”
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