Soap Lake
Soap Lake is a town of 1,600 people in Columbia River Plateau of Washington State. The lake's naturally occurring foam gives its water a soapy appearance, and the lake's mineral-rich waters have a slick, soapy feel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steven Pavlov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,870 residents
- Description: city in Grant County, Washington, United States
- Also known as: “Soap Lake, WA” and “Soap Lake, Washington”
- Postal code: 98851
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Soap Lake
Lake
Soap Lake is a meromictic soda lake in the town of Soap Lake, Washington formed by the Missoula Floods at the foot of the Grand Coulee. The lake gets its name from the naturally occurring foam that gives its water a soapy appearance, and because the lake's mineral-rich waters have a slick, soapy feel.
Soap Lake
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Grant, Columbia River Plateau, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
47.3893° or 47° 23′ 22″ northLongitude
-119.4905° or 119° 29′ 26″ westPopulation
1,870Elevation
1,106 feet (337 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SE3Open location code
85V29GQ5+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 150936978OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Soap Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوب ليك”
- Basque: “Soap Lake”
- Bulgarian: “Соуп Лейк”
- Catalan: “Soap Lake”
- Cebuano: “Soap Lake”
- Chechen: “Соуп-лейк”
- Chinese: “Soap Lake”
- Chinese: “皂湖”
- Chinese: “皂湖市”
- Croatian: “Soap Lake”
- Danish: “Soap Lake”
- Dutch: “Soap Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوب ليك”
- French: “Soap Lake”
- German: “Soap Lake”
- Gilaki: “سوپ لیک (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “سوپ لیک”
- Haitian: “Soap Lake, Washington”
- Haitian: “Soap Lake”
- Hungarian: “Soap Lake”
- Irish: “Soap Lake”
- Italian: “Soap Lake”
- Ladin: “Soap Lake”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Soap Lake”
- Malagasy: “Soap Lake, Washington”
- Malagasy: “Soap Lake”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Soap Lake”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soap Lake”
- Persian: “سوپ لیک، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “سوپ لیک”
- Polish: “Soap Lake”
- Portuguese: “Soap Lake”
- Russian: “Соап-Лейк”
- Russian: “Соп-Лейк”
- Serbian: “Соуп Лејк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Soap Lake, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Soap Lake”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوپ لیک، واشینقتون”
- Spanish: “Soap Lake (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Soap Lake”
- Tatar: “Соуп-лейк”
- Ukrainian: “Соуп-лейк”
- Uzbek: “Soap Lake”
- Volapük: “Soap Lake”
- Welsh: “Soap Lake, Washington”
- Welsh: “Soap Lake”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Soap Lake”. Photo: Steven Pavlov, CC BY-SA 3.0.