"Great Bitter Lake"@en . "0.0"^^ . . . . "The Great Bitter Lake (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062D\u064A\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0628\u0631\u0649\u200E; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra al-Kubra) is a salt water lake which is part of the Suez Canal. It is connected to the Small Bitter Lake (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062D\u064A\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u063A\u0631\u0649; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra as-Sughra), through which the canal also runs. Before the canal was built, their site was occupied by dry salt valleys.Together, the Bitter Lakes have a surface area of about 250 km\u00B2."@en . .