File:Lake_Geneva_by_Sentinel-2.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Lake Geneva
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lake Léman, Geneva Lake, Lake of Geneva, Lake Leman, Léman
lake in Switzerland and France
OverviewAI-generated
Lake Geneva is a body of water with a surface area of 581.3 and a maximum vertical depth of 309. The lake sits at an elevation of 372 above sea level and spans a length of 73 with a width of 14. Its total volume is 89, and the surrounding watershed covers an area of 7395.
The water in the lake has a residence time of 11.8. The name is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as "jɛʑɔrɔ ɡɛnɛfskʲɛ". Visual documentation of the location is available in the Commons category and gallery titled "Lake Geneva". The subject is referenced by 1,005 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 12 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent (345.31 km or 133.32 sq mi) of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Geneva and Valais) and forty percent (234.71 km or 90.62 sq mi) to France (the department of Haute-Savoie).
Name
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Geneva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (12)
On the map
Available in 93 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Albanian
- Aragonese
- Armenian
- Arpitan
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
Show 74 more
- Bashkir
- Basque
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
- Bikol
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chuvash
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Galician
- Georgian
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Ido
- Interlingua
- Javanese
- Kazakh
- Kyrgyz
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Lombard
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mingrelian
- Mongolian
- Nederlands
- Northern Frisian
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Occitan
- Piedmontese
- Polski
- Romanian
- Romansh
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Sicilian
- simple
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Svenska
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Venetian
- Veps
- Waray
- Welsh
- Western Panjabi
- Wu Chinese
- zh_yue
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0