Lake Tai
Lake Tai is a large and scenic lake in China, on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The lake area gets many visitors from the nearby major cities — Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing — as well from as the ones around the lake.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, China
- Also known as: “Great Lake”, “jezero Taj”, “jezero Tajhu”, “Lac Taihu”, “Lacus Magnus”, “Lacus Tae”, “Lacus Tai”, “Lake T’ai”, “Lake T’ai-hu”, “Lake Tae”, “Lake Tai-hu”, “Lake Taihu”, “Parc national de Taihu”, “T’ai Hu”, “T’ai-hu Lake”, “T’ai-wu”, “Tae Lake”, “Tai Lacus”, “Tai Lake”, “Tai-hu Lake”, “Tai-Hu-See”, “Tai-See”, “Taihu Lake”, “Taihu-See”, “Taihujärvi”, “Taisjøen”, “Taj-hu”, “Tajhu”, “Tajhu-tó”, “the Grand Lake”, “the Great Lake”, “Տայ”, “타이 후”, and “태호”
Lake Tai
- Categories: protected area, Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction, and body of water
- Location: Jiangsu, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.2165° or 31° 12′ 59″ north
Longitude
120.1981° or 120° 11′ 53″ east
Open location code
8Q32658X+H7
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Tai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة تاي”
- Armenian: “Տայհու լիճ”
- Basque: “Tai aintzira”
- Basque: “Tai lakua”
- Belarusian: “Возера Тайху”
- Belarusian: “Тайху”
- Bengali: “তাই হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Тайху”
- Catalan: “Llac Taihu”
- Chinese: “太湖”
- Chuvash: “Тайху”
- Czech: “Tchaj-chu”
- Danish: “Tai Hu”
- Dutch: “Taihu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره تاى”
- Finnish: “Taijärvi”
- French: “lac Tai”
- French: “Lac Tai”
- Galician: “Lago Taihu”
- Georgian: “ტაიხუ”
- German: “Tai Hu”
- Hebrew: “אגם טאי”
- Hebrew: “טאיהו”
- Hindi: “ताइहू झील”
- Hungarian: “Taj-tó”
- Icelandic: “Tai vatn”
- Icelandic: “Tai-vatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Taihu”
- Italian: “Tai Hu”
- Japanese: “太湖”
- Korean: “타이 호”
- Korean: “타이후”
- Latin: “Tae Lacus”
- Latvian: “Taihu”
- Literary Chinese: “太湖”
- Lithuanian: “Taihu”
- Malayalam: “ലേക് തായ്”
- Manchu: “ᡨᠠᡳ ᡥᡡ ᡨᡝᠩᡤᡳᠨ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tai Hu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tai Hu”
- Norwegian: “Tai Hu”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਈ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه تایهو”
- Persian: “رود تای”
- Polish: “Tai Hu”
- Portuguese: “Lago Taihu”
- Romanian: “Lacul Tai”
- Russian: “Тайху”
- Slovenian: “Taj Hu”
- Spanish: “Lago Tai”
- Spanish: “Lago Taihu”
- Swedish: “Tai Hu”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบไท่”
- Tibetan: “ཐའེ་ཧུའུ་མཚེའུ།”
- Turkish: “Tai Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Тайху”
- Uzbek: “Tay ko’li”
- Venetian: “Tai Hu”
- Vietnamese: “Thái Hồ”
- Wu Chinese: “太湖”
- Yakut: “Тайху”
- Yue Chinese: “太湖”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 堂里村 and Dongcun village.
Jiangsu: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Nanjing and Suzhou.
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