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.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Samosir island and East Lake Toba.
Samosir island
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Samosir island is an island in the moddile of Lake Toba. This island is a large volcanic island, formed after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano around 75,000 years ago.
East Lake Toba
Eastern side of Lake Toba is a region within Lake Toba.South Lake Toba
Southern side of Lake Toba is a region within Lake Toba.Destinations to Discover
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West Lake Toba
Western 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: “Danau Toba” and “Tao Toba”
- Categories: volcanic crater lake, caldera, and body of water
- Location: North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Lake Toba” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tobameer”
- Albanian: “Toba”
- Arabic: “بحيرة توبا”
- Arabic: “بحيرة دانيو 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: “Toba Ô͘”
- Chinese: “多峇湖”
- Chinese: “多巴湖”
- Chuvash: “Тоба”
- Croatian: “Toba”
- Czech: “Toba”
- Danish: “Lake Toba”
- Danish: “Tobasøen”
- Dutch: “Toba-meer”
- Dutch: “Tobameer”
- Esperanto: “Danau Toba”
- Esperanto: “Toba”
- Estonian: “Toba järv”
- Finnish: “Lake Toba”
- Finnish: “Toba”
- Finnish: “Tobajärvi”
- French: “lac Toba”
- French: “Lac Toba”
- Georgian: “ტობა”
- German: “Danau Toba”
- German: “Toba-See”
- German: “Tobasee”
- Gorontalo: “Bulalo lo Toba”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Τόμπα”
- Hebrew: “אגם טובה”
- Hindi: “तोबा झील”
- Hindi: “तोबा”
- Hungarian: “Toba-tó”
- Icelandic: “Toba”
- Icelandic: “Tobavatn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Toba”
- Indonesian: “Tao Toba”
- Italian: “lago Toba”
- Italian: “Lago Toba”
- Japanese: “トバカルデラ”
- Japanese: “トバ山”
- Japanese: “トバ湖”
- Japanese: “トバ火山”
- Javanese: “Danau Toba”
- Javanese: “Tlaga Toba”
- Komering: “Danau Toba”
- Korean: “토바호”
- Latvian: “Danau Toba”
- Latvian: “Toba”
- Latvian: “Tobas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Toba”
- Lithuanian: “Tobos ežeras”
- 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”
- Romanian: “Lacul toba”
- Russian: “Озеро Тоба”
- 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: “Danau Toba”
- Swedish: “Lake toba”
- Swedish: “Tobasjön”
- Tagalog: “Lawa ng Toba”
- Tamil: “தோபா ஏரி”
- Tatar: “Тоба”
- Telugu: “టోబా సరస్సు”
- Thai: “Lake Toba”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบโตบา”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบโทบา”
- Turkish: “Toba Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Тоба”
- Uzbek: “Toba koʻli”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Toba”
- Vietnamese: “Siêu núi lửa Toba”
- Welsh: “Llyn Toba”
- Wu Chinese: “多巴湖”
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