Lake Chilwa
lake in Malawi
Facts
16 properties- Instance of
- lake, endorheic basin[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ -15.300°, 35.700°
- Area
- +1200[15]
- Described by source
- Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9][10][11]
- Drainage basin
- Chilwa Basin[20]
- Elevation above sea level
- +627[14]
- Heritage designation
- Ramsar site[12]
- Length
- +60[13]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Zomba District[1]
- Vertical depth
- +2[19]
- Volume as quantity
- +1.8[18]
- Watershed area
- +7500[17]
- Width
- +40[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lake Chilwa
en Lake Shirwa
ar بحيرة تشلوة
cs Chilwa
da Chilwasøen
de Shirwa See
de Chilwa See
es Lago Chilwa
fa دریاچه چیلوا
fi Chilwajärvi
fr lac Chilwa
id Danau Chilwa
ja チルワ湖
ru Чилва
sv Chilwasjön
tr Chilwa Gölü
vi Hồ Chilwa
zh 奇爾瓦湖
🔖 Identifiers · 11
- VIAF cluster ID
- 235053363
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh95001813
- GND ID
- 4098951-3
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Lake-Chilwa
- Freebase ID
- /m/05prdy
- GeoNames ID
- 7871216
- ILEC World Lake Database ID
- AFR-01
- Museum-digital place ID
- 20859
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007537125905171
- Ramsar Sites Information Service ID
- 869
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/da6a2acc-83e4-4739-9efe-73da884a7118
⛏️ Lake Facts
· open-dataset statements via 4ort-mint
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Blantyre
2026-09-26
H/LK · MW
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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
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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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🔗 Connections
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Described by source 1
Heritage designation 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
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