🌊 Great Bitter Lake

Egypt · Africa · 30.32°N, 32.38°E

The Great Bitter Lake is a large saltwater lake in Egypt which is part of the Suez Canal. Before the canal was built in 1869, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry salt valley or basin. References are made to the Great Bitter Lake in the ancient Pyramid Texts.

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Quick facts

Country	Egypt
Continent / region	Africa
Surface elevation	unknown
Coordinates (approx.)	30.32°N, 32.38°E · view on map

Great Bitter Lake in Egypt, in Africa. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More lakes in Egypt

Serbonian Bog · Lake Moeris · Lake Manzala · Little Bitter Lake · Lake Timsah · Lake Burullus.

Surface elevation from Wikidata. Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.