Issyk Kul
 Issyk Kul (also Ysyk Köl Issyk-Kol: Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл [ɯsɯqkœl]; Russian: Иссык-Куль) is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the tenth largest lake in the world by volume and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea. Although it is surrounded by snow-capped peaks it never freezes;[citation needed] hence its name which means hot lake in the Kyrgyz language (Chinese: 熱海; literally Hot Sea in Chinese texts).