Ayke ( kk, Әйке, ''Äike'') is a
lake
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...
in the
Ayteke Bi District
Ayteke Bi ( kk, Әйтеке би ауданы, ) is a district of Aktobe Region in Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the selo of Komsomol. Population:
Geography
Ayke lake is located in the district at the Kazakhstan ...
,
Aktobe Region
The Aktobe Region ( kk, Ақтөбе облысы, Aqtöbe oblysy; russian: Актюбинская область, translit=Aktyubinskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. The name ''Aktobe'' comes from Kazakh ''aq'' 'white' and ''töbe'' 'hill' ...
,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
Geography
The lake is located on the
Kazakhstan–Russia border
The Kazakhstan–Russia border (russian: Казахстанско-российская граница, kk, Қазақстан-Ресей шекарасы) is the international border between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federatio ...
. The border runs roughly from north to south and the largest part of the lake is in Kazakhstan, with only a small sector in the NW part within Russia. Ayke has an
area
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an ope ...
of about . The Kazakh village of
Ayke is located on the eastern
lakeshore. Lake
Shalkar-Yega-Kara
Shalkar-Yega-Kara (russian: Шалкар-Ега-Кара) is a lake in Orenburg Oblast, Russian Federation.
The lake is located in the Svetlinsky District, close to the Kazakhstan–Russia border. Svetly village lies close to the northern sh ...
lies about to the southwest, on the other side of the border, and lake
Kulykol to the NNE.
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See also
*List of lakes of Kazakhstan
Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. The most important drainage system is known as Yedisu, meaning "seven rivers" in Turkic languages. Below is the list ...
References
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Kazakhstan–Russia border
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Endorheic lakes of Asia
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