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25 largest lakes in Western 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. 1IJsselmeer1,100 km²
  2. 2Lake Geneva581 km²
  3. 3Lake Constance536 km²
  4. 4Neusiedl Lake315 km²
  5. 5Lake Neuchâtel218 km²
  6. 6Lake Lucerne114 km²
  7. 7Müritz113 km²
  8. 8Lake Zurich89 km²
  9. 9Chiemsee80 km²
  10. 10Schweriner See62 km²
  11. 11Hourtin-Carcans Lake57 km²
  12. 12Lake Starnberg56 km²
  13. 13Étang de Cazaux et de Sanguinet55 km²
  14. 14Lake Lugano49 km²
  15. 15Ammersee47 km²
  16. 16Attersee46 km²
  17. 17Lac du Bourget45 km²
  18. 18Lake Thun44 km²
  19. 19Étang de Bonnevais41 km²
  20. 20Lake Biel39 km²
  21. 21Plauer See38 km²
  22. 22Kummerower See33 km²
  23. 23Lake Brienz30 km²
  24. 24Steinhuder Meer29 km²
  25. 25Lake Annecy28 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. Western Europe: what lies inside the region’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit).

On the map

Map of 25 largest lakes in Western Europe, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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