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Balatonszemes is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It lies on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, on the northern slopes of the Outer Somogy hills overlooking the lake and on the half-kilometre wide coastal plain. It has a train station on the (Budapest-)Székesfehérvár-Gyékényes railway line.

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Balatonszemes
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Region
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Southern Transdanubia
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County
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Somogy
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Kaposvár

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Balatonszemes is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It lies on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, on the northern slopes of the Outer Somogy hills overlooking the lake and on the half-kilometre wide coastal plain. It has a train station on the (Budapest-)Székesfehérvár-Gyékényes railway line.

The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balatonszemes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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