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This list of lakes in France roughly distinguishes three categories: the mountain lakes, ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
Lac du Bourget (French: [lak dy buʁʒɛ]; English Lake Bourget), also locally known as Lac Gris ([lak gʁi]; English: Grey Lake) or Lac d'Aix ([lak d‿ɛ]), is a lake at the southernmost end of the Jura Mountains in the department of Savoie, France. It is the deepest lake located entirely within France, and either the largest or second ...
This category is for articles pertaining to lakes in France. Reservoirs are also listed in Category:Reservoirs in France . The main article for this category is List of lakes in France .
With a surface area of 23 km 2 and a normal capacity of 205 million m 3, [10] it is the third-largest artificial lake in France, after Lac du Der-Chantecoq and Lac de Serre-Ponçon and ahead of Lac de Sainte-Croix. Formerly known as "Lac de Lusigny" or "Lac de la forêt d'Orient", it was built to directly regulate the Seine.
Longest freshwater lake in the world and third largest of any kind by volume. [18] 7: Baikal Russia: Fresh 31,722 km 2 12,248 sq mi 636 km 395 mi 1,642 m 5,387 ft 23,610 km 3 5,660 cu mi Deepest lake in the world and largest freshwater lake in the world by volume. [19] 8: Great Bear Lake Canada: Fresh 31,153 km 2 12,028 sq mi 373 km 232 mi 446 m
One of the goals was to reduce government debt by selling state-owned real estate on the market. [2] Each year, the sales yielded between 200 ans 500 million EUR. [4] The larger part of the returns would be used as an economic incentive to economise on real estate holdings, by being partly returned to the ministries that previously occupied the ...
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It is named after the city of Annecy, which marks the start of the Thiou, Lake Annecy's outflow river. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 958 It is the third-largest lake in France , after the Lac du Bourget and Lac de Grand-Lieu , if the French part of Lake Geneva , which is shared between Switzerland and France, is excluded.