Lake Biwa

Lake Biwa is the largest freshwater lake in Japan. It is located entirely within , northeast of the former capital city of . Lake Biwa is an ancient lake, over 4 million years old.
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  • Lake
  • …has a surface elevation of 84 metres (276 feet)
  • Description: freshwater lake in Japan
  • Also known as
    “Biva L.”
    “Biva Lake”
    “Biwa”
    “Biwa L.”
    “Biwa Lake”
    “Biwa-ko”
    “L. Biva”
    “L. Biwa”
    “Lake Biva”
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Lake Biwa

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Latitude
35.25° or 35° 15′ north
Longitude
136.0833° or 136° 5′ east
Open location code
8Q7R732M+28
Geo­Names ID
1864705
Wiki­data ID
Q200239

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Biwa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة بيوا”
  • Armenian: “Բիվա լիճ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biva gölü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Biva”
  • Balinese: “Danu Biwa”
  • Basque: “Biwa aintzira”
  • Basque: “Biwa lakua”
  • Belarusian: “Біва”
  • Bosnian: “Biwa”
  • Bulgarian: “Бива (езеро)”
  • Bulgarian: “Бива”
  • Burmese: “ဘိဝရေကန်”
  • Catalan: “biwa-ko”
  • Catalan: “Llac Biwa”
  • Cebuano: “Biwa-ko”
  • Central Bikol: “Danaw nin Biwa”
  • Chinese: “琵琶湖”
  • Chuvash: “Бива”
  • Croatian: “Biwa”
  • Czech: “Biwa”
  • Czech: “Biwako”
  • Czech: “Jezero Biwa”
  • Dutch: “biwa-ko”
  • Dutch: “Biwa-meer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره بيوا”
  • Esperanto: “Biwa”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Biŭa”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Biwa”
  • Estonian: “Biwa järv”
  • Finnish: “Biwa”
  • Finnish: “Biwajärvi”
  • French: “biwa-ko”
  • French: “Lac Biwa”
  • Georgian: “ბივა”
  • German: “Biwa-ko”
  • German: “Biwa-See”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Μπίβα”
  • Hebrew: “אגם ביווה”
  • Hindi: “बिवा झील”
  • Hungarian: “Biva-tó”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Biwa”
  • Italian: “biwa-ko”
  • Italian: “Biwa”
  • Italian: “Lago Biwa”
  • Japanese: “Mother Lake”
  • Japanese: “びわこ”
  • Japanese: “びわ湖”
  • Japanese: “水海”
  • Japanese: “淡海”
  • Japanese: “淡海の海”
  • Japanese: “琵琶湖”
  • Japanese: “細波”
  • Japanese: “近江の海”
  • Japanese: “近畿の水瓶”
  • Japanese: “鳰の海”
  • Korean: “비와호”
  • Latin: “Lacus Aumius”
  • Latin: “Lacus Biva”
  • Latin: “Lacus Biwa”
  • Latvian: “Bivas ezers”
  • Latvian: “Lake Biwa”
  • Latvian: “Omi ezers”
  • Lithuanian: “Biva”
  • Lithuanian: “Bivos ežeras”
  • Malayalam: “ബിവ തടാകം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Biwa Ô͘”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pî-pê-ô·”
  • Mongolian: “Бива нуур”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biwasjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Biwasjøen”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ بیوا”
  • Polish: “Biwa”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Biwa”
  • Portuguese: “biwa-ko”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Biwa”
  • Portuguese: “pipa hu”
  • Quechua: “Biwa qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Biwa”
  • Russian: “Бива”
  • Samogitian: “Bėvas ežers”
  • Samogitian: “Bivas ežers”
  • Serbian: “Jezero Biva”
  • Serbian: “Бива”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Бива”
  • Slovenian: “Biva (jezero)”
  • Slovenian: “Biva”
  • Slovenian: “Jezero Biva”
  • Spanish: “Biwa-ko”
  • Spanish: “Lago Biwa”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Biwa”
  • Swedish: “Biwa-ko”
  • Swedish: “Biwasjön”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบบิวะ”
  • Turkish: “Biwa Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Біва”
  • Ukrainian: “Озеро Біва”
  • Uzbek: “Biva”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Biwa”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Biwa”
  • Yue Chinese: “琵琶湖”

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