Kotyrkol
Kotyrkol is a salt lake in Birzhan sal District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.
Stepnyak town, the district capital, is located to the NNE of the northern lakeshore.
Geography
Kotyrkol lies at the northern end of the Kazakh Uplands and is part of the Irtysh basin. It lies at an elevation of. It has an elongated shape oriented in a roughly southeast–northwest direction, with the wider southern part tapering towards the north. Numerous small rivulets flow into the lake from the west. In the years of abundant water the lake is connected to neighboring lake Zhokey through the Sarymsak river.The shores of Kotyrkol are sloping and the lake bottom is muddy.
Among the lakes in its vicinity, Zhokey lies to the NNW, Mamay to the southeast, Balytkty to the west, Shchuchye to the northwest and Atansor to the east.