NW China
Xinjiang
Tarim

Karakol Lake

The Karakul or Karakuli, is a located 196 km southwest of , of . It is located in , Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture on the Karakoram Highway, before reaching , the on the China – Pakistan border and in .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang, China
  • Also known as: “Black Lake”, “Karakul”, “Karakul Lake”, and “Karakuli”

Karakol Lake

Latitude
38.4453° or 38° 26′ 43″ north
Longitude
75.0536° or 75° 3′ 13″ east
Elevation
3,690 metres (12,106 feet)
Open location code
8JCQC3W3+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 977746833
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Wiki­data ID
Q1071180
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Karakol Lake” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կարակուլ”
  • Basque: “Karakul lakua”
  • Basque: “Karakul”
  • Chinese: “卡拉库里湖”
  • Chinese: “卡拉庫里湖”
  • Chinese: “喀拉库勒湖”
  • Chinese: “喀拉庫勒湖”
  • Chinese: “喀拉湖”
  • Chuvash: “Каракёль”
  • Chuvash: “Каракуль”
  • Dutch: “Karakul”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كاراكول”
  • French: “lac Karakul”
  • French: “Lac Karakul”
  • German: “Karakol”
  • German: “Karakul”
  • Hebrew: “אגם קרקול”
  • Hebrew: “קרקול”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Hitam (Tiongkok)”
  • Indonesian: “Karakul”
  • Italian: “Karakul”
  • Italian: “Lago Karakul”
  • Japanese: “カラクリ湖”
  • Japanese: “カラクル湖 (中国)”
  • Kirghiz: “قاراقۅل / каракөл”
  • Korean: “카라쿠리호”
  • Korean: “카라쿨 호”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakulis”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਰਾਕੁਲ (ਸ਼ਿਨਜਿਆਂਗ)”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਰਾਕੁਲ”
  • Persian: “قره‌کول (سین‌کیانگ)”
  • Persian: “قره‌کول”
  • Polish: “Karakol Hu”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Karakul”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Karakul”
  • Russian: “Каракёль”
  • Russian: “Каракуль”
  • Serbian: “Jezero Karakul”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Каракул”
  • Serbian: “Каракул”
  • Serbian: “Каракулско језеро”
  • Slovenian: “Karakul (jezero)”
  • Slovenian: “Karakul”
  • Spanish: “Lago Karakul”
  • Sundanese: “Karakul”
  • Turkish: “Karakul Gölü”
  • Venetian: “Karakul”
  • Vietnamese: “Karakul (Trung Quốc)”
  • Vietnamese: “Karakul”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Karakol Lake”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.