Lake Toba
Lake Toba, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, is the largest volcanic lake in the world. Samosir island, in the lake, is an island within an island. It is in North Sumatra.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Samosir island and East Lake Toba.
East Lake Toba
Eastern side of Lake Toba is a region within Lake Toba.West Lake Toba
Western side of Lake Toba is a region within Lake Toba.Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: South Lake Toba and North Lake Toba.
South Lake Toba
Southern side of Lake Toba is a region within Lake Toba.North Lake Toba
Northern side of Lake Toba is a region within Lake Toba.Lake Toba
- Type: Lake
- Description: volcanic crater lake located in North Sumatra, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Lacul toba”, “Lake toba”, “Toba-meer”, “Tobos ežeras”, “Озеро Тоба”, “بحيرة دانيو توبا”, “तोबा”, “ทะเลสาบโทบา”, “トバカルデラ”, “トバ山”, “トバ火山”, and “多峇湖”
- Categories: volcanic crater lake, caldera, and body of water
- Location: North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.6042° or 2° 36′ 15″ north
Longitude
98.8234° or 98° 49′ 24″ east
Elevation
900 metres (2,953 feet)
Open location code
6MJWJR3F+M9
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Toba” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tobameer”
- Albanian: “Toba”
- Arabic: “بحيرة توبا”
- Armenian: “Տոբա”
- Azerbaijani: “Toba gölü”
- Balinese: “Danu Toba”
- Basque: “Toba”
- Batak Mandailing: “Danau Toba”
- Batak Toba: “Tao Toba”
- Belarusian: “Тоба”
- Bengali: “টোবা হ্রদ”
- Bulgarian: “Тоба”
- Catalan: “llac Toba”
- Catalan: “Llac Toba”
- Cebuano: “Danau Toba”
- Chinese: “多巴湖”
- Chuvash: “Тоба”
- Croatian: “Toba”
- Czech: “Toba”
- Danish: “Lake Toba”
- Danish: “Tobasøen”
- Dutch: “Tobameer”
- Esperanto: “Toba”
- Estonian: “Toba järv”
- Finnish: “Lake Toba”
- Finnish: “Toba”
- Finnish: “Tobajärvi”
- French: “lac Toba”
- French: “Lac Toba”
- Georgian: “ტობა”
- German: “Toba-See”
- German: “Tobasee”
- Gorontalo: “Bulalo lo Toba”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Τόμπα”
- Hebrew: “אגם טובה”
- Hindi: “तोबा झील”
- Hungarian: “Toba-tó”
- Icelandic: “Tobavatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Toba”
- Italian: “lago Toba”
- Italian: “Lago Toba”
- Japanese: “トバ湖”
- Javanese: “Tlaga Toba”
- Komering: “Danau Toba”
- Korean: “토바호”
- Latvian: “Tobas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Toba”
- Macedonian: “Тоба”
- Malay: “Danau Toba”
- Malay: “Tasik Toba”
- Malayalam: “ടോബ തടാകം”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Toba Ô͘”
- Minangkabau: “Danau Toba”
- Mingrelian: “ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Toba”
- Norwegian: “Toba”
- Panjabi: “ਤੋਬਾ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه توبا”
- Polish: “Toba”
- Portuguese: “Lago Toba”
- Romanian: “Lacul și vulcanul Toba”
- Russian: “Тоба”
- Scots: “Loch Toba”
- Serbian: “Jezero Toba”
- Serbian: “Језеро Тоба”
- Serbian: “Тоба”
- Slovak: “Toba”
- Slovenian: “Toba (jezero)”
- Slovenian: “Toba”
- Spanish: “Lago Toba”
- Sundanese: “Dano Toba”
- Swedish: “Tobasjön”
- Tagalog: “Lawa ng Toba”
- Tamil: “தோபா ஏரி”
- Tatar: “Тоба”
- Telugu: “టోబా సరస్సు”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบโตบา”
- Turkish: “Toba Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Тоба”
- Uzbek: “Toba koʻli”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Toba”
- Vietnamese: “Siêu núi lửa Toba”
- Welsh: “Llyn Toba”
- Wu Chinese: “多巴湖”
- Yue Chinese: “多巴湖”
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