Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Yoni Lerner, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: African Great Lake
- Neighbors: Chintheche
Photo: Joachim Huber, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Steve Evans, CC BY 2.0.
Lake Malawi
- Category: body of water
- Location: Malawi, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-12° or 12° southLongitude
34.5° or 34° 30' eastElevation
476 metres (1,562 feet)Open Location Code
5GWP2G22+22GeoNames ID
924329Wikidata ID
Q5532Lake Malawi Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Malawimeer
- Arabic: Danaw Malawi
- Arabic: بحيرة ملاوي
- Aragonese: Laco Malawi
- Armenian: Նյասա լիճ
- Asturian: Llagu Malawi
- Avaric: Malawi uzda
- Azerbaijani: Nyasa
- Bashkir: Ньяса
- Basque: Nyassa
- Bavarian: Malawisee
- Belarusian: Возера Малаві
- Belarusian: Малаві
- Bengali: মালাউই হ্রদ
- Bhojpuri: मलावी झील
- Bosnian: Malawi
- Breton: Lenn Malawi
- Bulgarian: Малави
- Burmese: မာလဝီကန်
- Catalan: Llac Malawi
- Chinese: 馬拉維湖
- Chinese: 马拉维湖
- Chuvash: Малави
- Croatian: Malavi
- Czech: Lago Niassa
- Czech: Lake Malawi
- Czech: Malawi
- Czech: Nyasa
- Czech: Ňasa
- Danish: Malawisøen
- Dimli (individual language): Golê Malawi
- Dutch: Malawimeer
- Dutch: Niassameer
- Dutch: Nyasameer
- Dutch: Nyassameer
- Egyptian Arabic: بحيرة ملاوى
- English: Lago Niassa
- English: Lake Nyasa
- English: Lake Nyassa
- Esperanto: Malavia Lago
- Estonian: Njassa järv
- Finnish: Njassajärvi
- French: Lac Malawi
- French: lac Malawi
- Galician: Lago Niassa
- Georgian: ნიასა
- German: Malawisee
- German: Njassasee
- German: Nyasasee
- Greek: Λίμνη Μαλάουι
- Greek: Λίμνη Νιάσα
- Greek: Λίμνη Νυάσα
- Guarani: Ypa Maláui
- Hausa: Tabkin Malawi
- Hebrew: אגם ליווינגסטון
- Hebrew: אגם מלאווי
- Hindi: मलावी झील
- Hungarian: Nyasza-tó
- Icelandic: Malaví-vatn
- Indonesian: Danau Malawi
- Irish: Loch na Maláive
- Italian: lago Malawi
- Japanese: マラウイ湖
- Kannada: ಮಲಾವಿ ಸರೋವರ
- Kazakh: Ньяса
- Kirghiz: Ньяса
- Korean: 말라위호
- Kotava: Malawi Uzda
- Latin: Lacus Malavianus
- Latvian: Ņasas ezers
- Lingua Franca Nova: Lago Malawi
- Lithuanian: Malavio ežeras
- Lower Sorbian: Malawiski jazor
- Luxembourgish: Malawiséi
- Macedonian: Малави
- Malagasy: Farihy Malawi
- Malay: Tasik Malawi
- Malayalam: മലാവി തടാകം
- Marathi: मलावी सरोवर
- Mingrelian: ნიასა
- Norwegian: Malawisjøen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Malawisjøen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Malawisjøen
- Nyanja: Lake Malawi
- Occitan (post 1500): Lac Malawi
- Panjabi: ਮਲਾਵੀ ਝੀਲ
- Persian: دریاچه مالاوی
- Polish: Malawi
- Polish: Niasa
- Portuguese: Lago Niassa
- Quechua: Malawi qucha
- Romanian: Lacul Nyasa
- Russian: Малави
- Russian: Ньяса
- Serbian: Malavi
- Serbian: Малави
- Serbo-Croatian: Malavi
- Slovak: Malawi
- Slovenian: Malavijsko jezero
- Somali: Harada malaawi
- Spanish: Lago Malaui
- Swahili: Nyasa
- Swedish: Malawisjön
- Swiss German: Malawisee
- Tamil: மலாவி ஏரி
- Tatar: Ньяса күле
- Thai: ทะเลสาบมาลาวี
- Tosk Albanian: Malawisee
- Tumbuka: Nyanja ya Malaŵi
- Turkish: Malavi Gölü
- Ukrainian: Ньяса
- Upper Sorbian: Malawiski jězor
- Urdu: جھیل ملاوی
- Uzbek: Nyasa
- Venetian: lago Malawi
- Vietnamese: Hồ Malawi
- Waray (Philippines): Danaw Malawi
- Welsh: Llyn Malawi
- Welsh: Llyn Nyasa
- Western Mari: Ньяса
- Western Panjabi: جھیل ملاوی
- Wu Chinese: 馬拉維湖
- Yue Chinese: 馬拉維湖
- Lago Nyassa
- Lake Niassa
Other Places Named Lake Malawi
Localities in the Area
Landmarks in the Area
- LightHill, 11 km east
- Machili IslandIsland, 12 km east
- Wina PointPoint, 12 km east
- Chiteko BayBay, 13 km east
- Lilongwe BayBay, 13 km east
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