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- Russian:
- Ozero Khanka
- Chinese (Pinyin):
- Xingkai Hu or
- (Wade-Giles romanization):
- Hsing-k’ai Hu
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Lake Khanka
lake, Asia
Also known as: Hsing-k’ai Hu, Ozero Khanka, Xingkai Hu
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See all videos for this articleLake Khanka, shallow lake on the boundary between Siberia (Russia) and China. Most of the lakeshore is in the Primorsky territory of the Russian Far East; the northern shore is in Heilongjiang province of northeastern China. Much of the lake is surrounded by swampland. The lake varies in area from about 1,500 to 1,700 square miles (4,000 to 4,400 square km). Around the southern end is the Khanka Lowland, a rich black-earth area with some of the best soils in eastern Siberia. Lake Khanka’s outlet is the Sungacha (Song’acha) River, a tributary of the Ussuri (Wusuli) River.
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