Karakul
Karakul is a small village on the Pamir Highway surrounded by a large crater lake. It sits on a desolate high plain. If you are coming from Kyrgyzstan beware of possible altitude sickness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: БорисМир, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Great Kara Kol”, “Great Kāra Lake”, “Great Qara Köl”, “Kara Kul”, “Kara Kul Lake”, “Kara-kul”, “Kara-kul Lake”, “Karakul Lake”, “Lake Kara Kul”, “Lake Kara-kul”, “Lake Karakul”, “Lake Qarakul”, “Ozero Karakul’”, “Qarakul”, “Qarakul Lake”, “Qarokul”, and “Qarokŭl”
Karakul
- Categories: volcanic crater lake, protected area, and body of water
- Location: Gorno-Badakhshan, Pamirs, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Karakul” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة كاراكول”
- Basque: “Karakul (Tajikistan)”
- Basque: “Karakul”
- Belarusian: “Возера Каракуль”
- Belarusian: “Каракуль”
- Bosnian: “Kara-Kul”
- Bosnian: “Karakul”
- Bulgarian: “Каракул”
- Catalan: “Karakul (Tadjikistan)”
- Catalan: “Karakul”
- Chinese: “卡拉库尔湖”
- Chinese: “卡拉庫爾湖”
- Chinese: “喀拉库勒湖”
- Chuvash: “Каракуль”
- Croatian: “Karakul”
- Czech: “Karakul”
- Dutch: “Karakul”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كاراكول (بحيره)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره كاراكول”
- Finnish: “Kara-Kul”
- French: “Kara-Kul”
- French: “Lac Kara-Kul”
- French: “Lac Karakoul”
- Georgian: “ყარაქოლი”
- German: “Kara-kul”
- German: “Karakul”
- Greek: “Καρακούλ”
- Hungarian: “Kara-kul”
- Indonesian: “Karakul”
- Italian: “Kara-Kul (Tagikistan)”
- Italian: “Kara-Kul”
- Japanese: “カラクル湖”
- Kirghiz: “Кара-Көл, Памир”
- Kirghiz: “Кара-Көл”
- Latvian: “Karakels”
- Lithuanian: “Karakulis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karakul”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qarakul”
- Norwegian: “Karakul”
- Persian: “کاراکول”
- Polish: “Kara-kul”
- Polish: “Karakul”
- Polish: “Karokul”
- Portuguese: “Lago Karakul (Tajiquistão)”
- Portuguese: “Lago Karakul”
- Romanian: “Lacul Kara-Kul”
- Russian: “Каракуль”
- Slovenian: “Karakul (Tadžikistan)”
- Slovenian: “Karakul”
- Spanish: “Lago Karakul”
- Sundanese: “Karakul”
- Swedish: “Kara-Kul”
- Swedish: “Karakul”
- Tajik: “Қарокӯл”
- Ukrainian: “Каракуль”
- Uzbek: “Qorakoʻl”
- Venetian: “Kara-Kul (Tagikistan)”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Karakul”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Karakul”. Photo: Kondephy, CC BY-SA 4.0.