Kypshak

Kypshak
Қыпшақ / Әжібайсор
2011 Landsat-5 image of lakes Kypshak (left) and Kerey
Kypshak
LocationKazakh Uplands
Coordinates50°08′N 68°23′E / 50.133°N 68.383°E / 50.133; 68.383
Typeendorheic
Primary inflowsKypshak, Akkoshkar
Primary outflowsnone
Catchment area3,151 square kilometers (1,217 sq mi)
Basin countriesKazakhstan
Max. length10.5 kilometers (6.5 mi)
Max. width8.5 kilometers (5.3 mi)
Surface area64.7 square kilometers (25.0 sq mi)
Shore length137.2 kilometers (23.1 mi)
Surface elevation318.9 meters (1,046 ft)
Islandsnone
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Kypshak (Kazakh: Қыпшақ), also known as Azhibeksor (Kazakh: Әжібайсор; Russian: Ажибексор), is a salt lake in Nura District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.

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.