Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is a lake in , . It is the biggest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: freshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia; the greatest mountain lake in Asia and the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world
  • Also known as: “Baikal”, “Baikal Sea”, “Bajkal”, “Baykal”, “Holy Sea”, “Lake Baykal”, “Ozero Baikal”, “Ozero Bajkal”, and “Ozero Baykal”

Lake Baikal

Latitude of center
54° north
Longitude of center
109° east
Elevation
455 metres (1,493 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2026982
Wiki­data ID
Q5513
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Baikal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Baikalmeer”
  • Albanian: “Liqeni Baikal”
  • Albanian: “Liqeni i Bajkalit”
  • Amharic: “ባይካል ሐይቅ”
  • Arabic: “بايكال”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بايخال”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بايكال (سيبيريا)”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بايكال”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بيقال”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بيكال”
  • Arabic: “بحيره بايكال”
  • Arabic: “بيقال”
  • Aragonese: “Laco Baikal”
  • Armenian: “Բայկալ լիճ”
  • Assamese: “বৈকাল হ্ৰদ”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Baikal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baykal”
  • Balinese: “Danu Baikal”
  • Bashkir: “Байкал”
  • Basque: “Baikal”
  • Batak Toba: “Tao Baikal”
  • Bavarian: “Baikalsee”
  • Belarusian: “Байкал”
  • Bengali: “বৈকাল হ্রদ”
  • Betawi: “Sètu Baèkal”
  • Bhojpuri: “बइकाल झील”
  • Bhojpuri: “बैकाल झील”
  • Bosnian: “Bajkalsko jezero”
  • Breton: “Lenn Baikal”
  • Bulgarian: “Байкал”
  • Buriat: “Байгал далай”
  • Burmese: “ဘိုင်ကယ်အိုင်”
  • Catalan: “Baikal”
  • Catalan: “Llac Baikal”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی بایکاڵ”
  • Chechen: “Байкал”
  • Chinese: “Baykal Ô͘”
  • Chinese: “貝加爾湖”
  • Chinese: “贝加尔湖”
  • Chuvash: “Байкал”
  • Cornish: “Lydn Baikal”
  • Corsican: “Lavu Baikal”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Baykal”
  • Croatian: “Bajkal”
  • Croatian: “Bajkalsko jezero”
  • Czech: “Bajkal”
  • Danish: “Bajkalsøen”
  • Dhivehi: “ބައިކަލް ކުޅި”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Golê Baykali”
  • Dutch: “Baikalmeer”
  • Dutch: “Bajkalmeer”
  • Eastern Mari: “Байкал”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة بايكال”
  • Erzya: “Байкал”
  • Esperanto: “Bajkalo”
  • Estonian: “Baikali järv”
  • Faroese: “Bajkalvatn”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Baikal Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Baikal”
  • Finnish: “Baikaljärvi”
  • French: “lac Baikal”
  • French: “lac Baïkal”
  • French: “Lac Baïkal”
  • Galician: “Lago Baikal”
  • Galician: “Ollo azul de Siberia”
  • Galician: “Perla de Asia”
  • Georgian: “ბაიკალი”
  • German: “Baikal-See”
  • German: “Baikal”
  • German: “Baikalsee”
  • Greek: “Βαϊκάλη”
  • Guarani: “Ypa Vaikály”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lak Baïkal”
  • Hebrew: “ימת באיקל”
  • Hindi: “बयकाल झील”
  • Hungarian: “Bajkál-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Bajkalvatn”
  • Ido: “Baikal”
  • Iloko: “Danaw Baikal”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Baikal”
  • Interlingua: “Laco Baikal”
  • Irish: “Loch Baikal”
  • Italian: “lago Bajkal”
  • Italian: “Lago Bajkal”
  • Japanese: “バイカル湖”
  • Javanese: “Tlaga Baikal”
  • Kabiyè: “Bayɩkalɩ Kujomuu”
  • Kabyle: “Agelmim n Baykal”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈಕಲ್ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baykal kóli”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baykal”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Байкал”
  • Kazakh: “Байкөл”
  • Kirghiz: “Байкал”
  • Kirghiz: “Байкөл”
  • Komi: “Байкал”
  • Korean: “바이칼호”
  • Latin: “Lacus Baical”
  • Latvian: “Baikāls”
  • Lezghian: “Байкал”
  • Limburgan: “Bajkalmaer”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lago Baical”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lago Baikal”
  • Lithuanian: “Baikalo ežeras”
  • Livvi: “Baikal”
  • Lojban: “baikal. zei lalxu”
  • Lombard: “Lagh Bajkal”
  • Low German: “Baikalsee”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bajkal”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bajkalski jazor”
  • Luxembourgish: “Baikalséi”
  • Macedonian: “Бајкалско Езеро”
  • Malay: “Tasik Baikal”
  • Malayalam: “‘സൈബീരിയയുടെ നീല കണ്ണ്’”
  • Malayalam: “ബൈകാൽ തടാകം”
  • Malayalam: “ബൈകാൽ”
  • Maltese: “Baikal”
  • Maltese: “Lag ta‘ Baikal”
  • Maltese: “Lag ta’ Baikal”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯥꯏꯀꯥꯜ ꯄꯥꯠ”
  • Marathi: “बैकाल सरोवर”
  • Mazanderani: “بایکال”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baykal Ô͘”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაიკალი”
  • Mirandese: “Lago Baikal”
  • Moksha: “Байкал”
  • Mongolian: “Байгал далай”
  • Mongolian: “Байгал нуур”
  • Mongolian: “ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠭᠠᠯᠢ ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ضاية بايكال”
  • Nauru: “Baykal”
  • Newari: “बैकाल पुखु”
  • Newari: “बैकाल पुखू”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baikal Sia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baikal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bajkalsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bajkalsjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Bajkalsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Baikal”
  • Ossetian: “Байкал”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਈਕਾਲ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه بایکال”
  • Piemontese: “Lagh Bajkal”
  • Polish: “Bajkał”
  • Polish: “Błękitne oko Syberii”
  • Polish: “Syberyjskie morze”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Baical”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Baikal”
  • Pushto: “بایکال کوړم”
  • Quechua: “Paygal qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Baikal”
  • Russia Buriat: “Байгал нуур”
  • Russia Buriat: “Байгал”
  • Russian: “Байкал”
  • Russian: “Озеро Байкал”
  • Rusyn: “Байкал”
  • Samogitian: “Baikals (ežers)”
  • Sardinian: “Lagu Baikal”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Baikal”
  • Serbian: “Bajkalsko jezero”
  • Serbian: “Бајкалско језеро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bajkalsko jezero”
  • Siberian Tatar: “Пәйгәл”
  • Sicilian: “Lacu Baikal”
  • Sindhi: “بيڪال ڍنڍ”
  • Sindhi: “بيڪال”
  • Sindhi: “بيڪل”
  • Sindhi: “ڍنڍ بيڪال”
  • Sindhi: “ڍنڍ بيڪل”
  • Sinhala: “බයිකල් විල”
  • Slovak: “Bajkal”
  • Slovak: “Bajkalské jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Bajkalsko jezero”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بایکال گؤلو”
  • Spanish: “Baikal”
  • Spanish: “Lago Baikal”
  • Swahili: “Baikal”
  • Swedish: “Bajkalsjön”
  • Swiss German: “Baikalsee”
  • Tagalog: “Lawa ng Baikal”
  • Tajik: “Байкал”
  • Talysh: “Bajkal”
  • Tamil: “பைக்கால் ஏரி”
  • Tatar: “Байкал күле”
  • Tatar: “Байкал”
  • Telugu: “బైకల్ సరస్సు”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบไบคาล”
  • Tibetan: “པེ་གལ་མཚེའུ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Baikalsee”
  • Turkish: “Baykal Gölü”
  • Turkmen: “Baýkal”
  • Udmurt: “Байкал”
  • Ukrainian: “Байкал”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bajkal”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bajkalski jězor”
  • Urdu: “جھیل بیکال”
  • Uzbek: “Baykal”
  • Venetian: “Łago Baikal”
  • Venetian: “Ƚago Baicàl”
  • Veps: “Baikal”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Baikal”
  • Volapük: “Baykal”
  • Võro: “Baikali järv”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Baikal”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Baikal”
  • Western Armenian: “Պայքալ Լիճ”
  • Western Frisian: “Baikalmar”
  • Western Mari: “Байкал”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل بیکال”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝加尔湖”
  • Yakut: “Баай күөл”
  • Yiddish: “בייקאל אזערע”
  • Yue Chinese: “貝加爾湖”
  • “Baikali järv”
  • “Baikals”
  • “Laghe Bajkal”
  • “Q5513”
  • “telo Paka”
  • “बैकाल झील”

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