Nakaumi
Sign in to saveis a brackish lake located between Tottori and Shimane prefectures in Japan. The lake is enclosed by the Shimane Peninsula to the north and Yumigahama Peninsula to the east. It is the fifth largest lake in surface area in Japan.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Nakaumi中海
- Body of water.image
- SakaiminatoCity.jpg
- Body of water.type
- Brackish
- Body of water.inflow
- Ohashi River
- Body of water.outflow
- Sakai Channel
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Japan
- Body of water.islands
- Daikonjima, Eshima
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Japan
- Body of water.pushpin_map_alt
- Location of Nakaumi in Japan.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Yonago
- Area
- 86.2
- Elevation
- 0
- Image
- 中海堤防道路 - panoramio.jpg
- Width
- 22.8
- Length
- 63.49
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- volume as quantity
- 470
- Commons category
- Nakaumi
- basin country
- Japan
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- vertical depth
- 17.1
- native label
- 中海
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Ecosystem
- Use
- History
- Land reclamation and desalination projects
- Storm surge damage
- See also
- References
is a brackish lake located between Tottori and Shimane prefectures in Japan. The lake is enclosed by the Shimane Peninsula to the north and Yumigahama Peninsula to the east. It is the fifth largest lake in surface area in Japan.
Nakaumi connects Lake Shinji (宍道湖 Shinji-ko) and the Sea of Japan, and is surrounded by the municipalities Matsue, Yasugi, Yonago and Sakaiminato.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nakaumi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations