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Lakes in Europe among the world’s 100 largest

6 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 Ladoga17,700 km²
  2. 2Lake Onega9,800 km²
  3. 3Vänern5,650 km²
  4. 4Saimaa4,400 km²
  5. 5Lake Peipus3,543 km²
  6. 6Vättern1,893 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. Lakes in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica. 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. Ranked in the world first: the 100 largest lakes of the world, and of those the ones in Europe.

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