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16 largest lakes in the Alps

16 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Lake Constance536 km²
  2. 2Lake Como145 km²
  3. 3Lake Lucerne114 km²
  4. 4Lake Zurich89 km²
  5. 5Chiemsee80 km²
  6. 6Lake Starnberg56 km²
  7. 7Lake Lugano49 km²
  8. 8Attersee46 km²
  9. 9Lac du Bourget45 km²
  10. 10Lake Thun44 km²
  11. 11Lake Brienz30 km²
  12. 12Lake Annecy28 km²
  13. 13Lake Zug24 km²
  14. 14Traunsee24 km²
  15. 15Walensee24 km²
  16. 16Wörthersee19 km²

Surface area in km²: the Largest Lakes set’s figure for its lakes, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Seasonal salt pans keep their recorded figure; their area varies. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out. The Alps: what lies inside the mountain range’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit).

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