Khyargas Lake Хяргас нуур, is a

salt lake A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre). ...

in Khyargas district,

Uvs Province Uvs (; mn, Увс аймаг, Uws aimag, ; xal, Увс әәмг, Uws äämg, ), is one of the 21 aimags (provinces) of Mongolia. It is located in the west of the country, away from the national capital Ulaanbaatar. Its capital is Ulaangom whi ...

, Western

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

. Some sources are using different Khyargas Lake statistics values:"Surface Water of Mongolia", Gombo Davaa, Dambaravjaa Oyunbaatar, Michiaki Sugita
/ref> *Water level: 1,035.29 m *Surface area: 1,481.1 km² *Average depth: 50.7 m *Volume: 75.2 km³. The Khyargas Lake National Park is based on the lake. This

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was established in 2000 and covers about 3,328 km². It also includes a

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

Airag Lake Airag Lake ( mn, Айраг нуур, Airag Nuur, ) is a lake in western Mongolia in the Great Lakes Depression. It is in a system of the interconnected lakes: Khar-Us, Khar, Dörgön, and Khyargas. The lake was in the same basin as the Khya ...

."Mongolia", by Jane Blunden, from

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series, 2nd edition, 2008,
p. 372
/ref>"Mongolia", by Michael Kohn, 2008,
p. 242
/ref>

References

Lakes of Mongolia Saline lakes of Asia Protected areas established in 2000 2000 establishments in Mongolia Uvs Province {{Mongolia-geo-stub