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Etosha Pan

big endorheic salt lake in Namibia's north
Lake Salt Lake Q280231

Facts

11 properties

Designation

Instance of
salt lake, endorheic lake[3]
Heritage designation
Tentative World Heritage Site, Ramsar site[10][11]

Location

Country
Namibia[2]
Location
Namibia[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -18.785°, 16.264°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Oshikoto Region[1]
More facts +5
Part of
Etosha National Park, Cuvelai-Etosha Basin[8][9]
Area
6,000 km²[12]
Inflows
Ekuma River, Oshigambo River, Ovambo River[4][5][6]
Located in protected area
Etosha National Park[16]
World Heritage criteria
(vii), (viii), (x)[13][14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Etosha Pan cs pánev Etosha cs pánev Etoša de Etosha-Pfanne es Cuenca de Etosha fr pan d'Etosha it Praterie alofile dell'Etosha Pan ja エトーシャ塩湖 pl Etosza pt Planície salina de Etoxa pt Salar de Etosha ro Depresiunea Etosha ru Этоша uk Етоша zh 埃托沙鹽湖
🔖 Identifiers · 11
VIAF cluster ID
92144647638062723996
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dry Etosha Pan.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
159556380
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Etosha-Pan
Freebase ID
/m/05_z81
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2,581,476
GeoNames ID
3357576
Lex ID
Etosha_Pan
Museum-digital place ID
20635
Ramsar Sites Information Service ID
745
World Heritage Tentative List ID
6095
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Windhoek 2026-09-26 T/PAN · NA GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Inflows 3
Ekuma River, Oshigambo River, Ovambo River
← Mouth of the watercourse 3
Ekuma River, Oshigambo River, Ovambo River
Heritage designation 2
Ramsar site, Tentative World Heritage Site
Instance of 2
salt lake, endorheic lake
Continent 1
Africa
Country 1
Namibia
Located in protected area 1
Etosha National Park
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Oshikoto Region
Location 1
Namibia
Part of 1
Etosha National Park
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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . researchgate.net. Retrieved . researchgate.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Trummler12 · 2026-11-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Area → 6,000 square kilometre
    "Created claim: Area: 6,000 square kilometre, batch #295174"
  2. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Heritage designation → Tentative World Heritage Site, Ramsar site
    Part of → Etosha National Park, Cuvelai-Etosha Basin
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Oshikoto Region
    Located in protected area → Etosha National Park
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #38899: Remove redundant P30, P17 is present"
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