Kypshak
Қыпшақ / Әжібайсор
2011 Landsat-5 image of lakes Kypshak (left) and Kerey
Kypshak
Location	Kazakh Uplands
Coordinates	50°08′N 68°23′E / 50.133°N 68.383°E / 50.133; 68.383
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]

Geography

Kypshak is a roughly triangular-shaped lake that lies at 318.9 meters (1,046 ft) above sea level. It is located 23 kilometers (14 mi) to the southwest of Lake Tengiz and 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) to the west of lake Kerey.^[6] It is an endorheic lake, having no outflow. 111 kilometers (69 mi) long river Kypshak flows into the lake from the northwest, and smaller river Akkoshkar from the west.^[3]

See also

• Sor (geomorphology)
• List of lakes of Kazakhstan

References

External links

• SARYARKA - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
• Northern Kazakhstan - Travel Guide