Botkul
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Botkul (; ) is a bittern salt lake in the Kazakhstan–Russia border.
Key facts
- Body of water.area
- to
- Body of water.name
- Botkul
- Body of water.other_name
- Боткуль / Боткөл
- Body of water.image
- Botkul lake.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- Panorama of the lake
- Body of water.image_bathymetry
- Botkul -ISS059-E-111484.jpg
- Body of water.caption_bathymetry
- ISS picture of the lake in 2019
- Body of water.location
- Caspian Lowland
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Russia Volgograd Oblast#Kazakhstan
- Body of water.type
- endorheic
- Body of water.inflow
- Solyonaya
- Body of water.basin_countries
- RussiaKazakhstan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- West Kazakhstan Region
- Image
- Botkul lake.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Botkul
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Geography
- See also
- References
- External links
Botkul (; ) is a bittern salt lake in the Kazakhstan–Russia border.
There is no salt mining at the lake. Its waters have a bitter, stinging taste and a strong smell of hydrogen sulfide. The authorities are exploring the potential of developing Botkul as a tourist attraction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Botkul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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