Shalkarkol (Kazakh: Шалқаркөл; Russian: Шалкарколь) is a salt lake in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.

[1] The lake lies about 45 kilometers (28 mi) to the southeast of Zhanatilek in a sparsely inhabited area.

[2][3] Shalkarkol lies in a tectonic depression of the Kazakh Uplands to the north of the Zheltau Massif.

Now abandoned Zheltau village was located barely 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) to the south of the southern lakeshore.

[2] River Tokzak, an intermittent stream, flows into the lake from the east.