| Kypshak | |
| Other Name: | Қыпшақ / Әжібайсор |
| Coords: | 50.1333°N 91°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan |
| Inflow: | Kypshak, Akkoshkar |
| Outflow: | none |
| Catchment: | 3151sqkm |
| Length: | 10.5km (06.5miles) |
| Width: | 8.5km (05.3miles) |
| Area: | 64.7sqkm |
| Shore: | 37.2km (23.1miles) |
| Elevation: | 318.9m (1,046.3feet) |
| Islands: | none |
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]
Kypshak is a roughly triangular-shaped lake that lies at 318.9m (1,046.3feet) above sea level. It is located 23km (14miles) to the southwest of Lake Tengiz and 12km (07miles) to the west of lake Kerey.[6] It is an endorheic lake, having no outflow. 111km (69miles) long river Kypshak flows into the lake from the northwest, and smaller river Akkoshkar from the west.[3]
