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List of lakes, showing country and size, with European ranking Rank Name Native names Country Average area Notes km 2 mi 2; 1 Ladoga: Ла́дожское о́зеро, Laatokka Russia: 17,700 6,800: 14th largest lake in the world 2 Onega: Onego, Онежское озеро, Ääninen, Äänisjärvi Russia: 9,894 3,820: 18th largest lake in the ...
Saline lakes of Europe ... European lake stubs (2 C, 90 P) Pages in category "Lakes of Europe" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Dymaxion world map with the 15 largest lakes roughly to scale. This is a pair of lists of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi), ranked by area, [1] [2] [3] excluding reservoirs and lagoons. The area of some lakes can vary considerably over time, either seasonally or from year to ...
Reservoirs in Europe by country (21 C) A. Lakes of Albania (3 C, 17 P) Lakes of Andorra (1 P) ... Lakes of the United Kingdom (7 C, 1 P)
It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent (345.31 km 2 or 133.32 sq mi) of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud , Geneva and Valais ) and forty percent (234.71 km 2 or 90.62 sq mi) to France (the department of Haute-Savoie ).
Vänern was connected to Ancylus Lake by a strait at Degerfors, Värmland. Further uplifting made lakes such as Vänern and Vättern become cut off from the Baltic. [9] As a result, there are still species remaining from the ice age not normally encountered in freshwater lakes, such as the amphipod Monoporeia affinis.
Lake Balaton (Hungarian: [ˈbɒlɒton]) is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, [3] and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalized Sió is the only outflow.
Pangong Tso; Lake Baikal – Lake Baikal is located in Siberia in southeastern Russia, just north of Mongolia. Considered the oldest surviving freshwater lake on the planet, it is also the deepest body of water in Asia at 5,315 feet (1,620 m), and the largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 20% of the planet's fresh water.