Kypshak (), also known as Azhibeksor (; ),Площадь озер Казахстана (Таблица) is a salt lake in Nura District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.Google Earth
In the 1930s Kypshak dried up and turned into a salt pan, 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.
Geography Kypshak is a roughly triangular-shaped lake that lies at above sea level. It is located to the southwest of Lake Tengiz and to the west of lake Kerey.Nature of Kazakhstan: Encyclopedia / General editor. B. O. Jakyp. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5 It is an endorheic lake, having no outflow. long river Kypshak flows into the lake from the northwest, and smaller river Akkoshkar from the west.
See also Sor (geomorphology) List of lakes of Kazakhstan
References
External links SARYARKA - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan Northern Kazakhstan - Travel Guide