Kypshak | |
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Қыпшақ / Әжібайсор | |
Location | Kazakh Uplands |
Coordinates | 50°08′N 68°23′E / 50.133°N 68.383°E |
Type | endorheic |
Primary inflows | Kypshak, Akkoshkar |
Primary outflows | none |
Catchment area | 3,151 square kilometers (1,217 sq mi) |
Basin countries | Kazakhstan |
Max. length | 10.5 kilometers (6.5 mi) |
Max. width | 8.5 kilometers (5.3 mi) |
Surface area | 64.7 square kilometers (25.0 sq mi) |
Shore length1 | 37.2 kilometers (23.1 mi) |
Surface elevation | 318.9 meters (1,046 ft) |
Islands | none |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
Kypshak (Kazakh: Қыпшақ), also known as Azhibeksor (Kazakh: Әжібайсор; Russian: Ажибексор),[1][2] is a salt lake in Nura District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.[3][4]
In the 1930s Kypshak dried up and turned into a salt pan,[5] but in the following decades it filled up once more and on the USSR topographic map of 1989 it was marked again as a lake.[4]