Part of Lake Nasser, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Lake Nasser, visible in the lower-right ...

Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt's ancient city of Aswan and one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.

The Aswan Dam was formally completed on July 21, 1970. The reservoir, known as Lake Nasser, reached its full capacity in 1976.