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25 largest lakes in the Nordic countries

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. 1Vänern5,650 km²
  2. 2Saimaa4,400 km²
  3. 3Vättern1,893 km²
  4. 4Päijänne1,083 km²
  5. 5Lake Inari1,082 km²
  6. 6Mälaren1,072 km²
  7. 7Pielinen894 km²
  8. 8Oulujärvi887 km²
  9. 9Hjälmaren483 km²
  10. 10Storsjön456 km²
  11. 11Mjøsa369 km²
  12. 12Torneträsk330 km²
  13. 13Siljan292 km²
  14. 14Hornavan262 km²
  15. 15Uddjaure249 km²
  16. 16Juojärvi220 km²
  17. 17Røssvatnet218 km²
  18. 18Femund203 km²
  19. 19Bolmen173 km²
  20. 20Storuman Lake171 km²
  21. 21Koitere164 km²
  22. 22Pyhäjärvi (Satakunta and Southwest Finland)155 km²
  23. 23Kivijärvi154 km²
  24. 24Randsfjorden141 km²
  25. 25Tyrifjorden139 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 Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. 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.

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