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25 best known lakes in Europe

25 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 Geneva
  2. 2Lake Constance
  3. 3Lake Ladoga
  4. 4Lake Balaton
  5. 5Lake Garda
  6. 6Lake Como
  7. 7Lake Onega
  8. 8Loch Ness
  9. 9Vänern
  10. 10Saimaa
  11. 11Lake Peipus
  12. 12Vättern
  13. 13Lake Lugano
  14. 14Mälaren
  15. 15Lake Zurich
  16. 16Neusiedl Lake
  17. 17Lake Inari
  18. 18Lake Lucerne
  19. 19Lake Trasimeno
  20. 20Chiemsee
  21. 21Lake Neuchâtel
  22. 22IJsselmeer
  23. 23Lake Skadar
  24. 24Loch Lomond
  25. 25Lake Ilmen

How well known each lake is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). A lake known far beyond its country has articles in many languages. 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. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 25 best known lakes in Europe, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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