Vesijärvi
Vesijärvi is a lake of 111 square kilometres near Lahti in southern Finland. It suffered severe effects of eutrophication in the 1960s and a restoration programme began in the 1970s; by the start of the 2020s, the lake's water quality and ecosystem had significantly improved.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Päijänne Tavastia region, Finland
- Also known as: “Vesijärvi (Lahti)” and “Vesijärvi (Päijänne Tavastia)”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vääksy and Vesivehmaa.
Vääksy
Town
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Vääksy is a village and seat of the municipality of Asikkala in southern Finland. It is located on an isthmus between Päijänne and Vesijärvi, about 23 kilometres north of Lahti. Vääksy is situated 8 km north of Vesijärvi.
Vesivehmaa
Village
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Vesivehmaa is a village, which is situated 9 km east of Vesijärvi.
Vesijärvi
- Categories: lake or pond and body of water
- Location: Päijänne Tavastia, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Vesijärvi” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Весіярві”
- Belarusian: “Возера Весіярві”
- Cebuano: “Vesijärvi”
- Chinese: “韋西湖”
- Chinese: “韦西湖”
- Chuvash: “Весиярви”
- Czech: “Vesijärvi”
- Dutch: “Vesijärvi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ڤيسيچارڤى”
- Esperanto: “Vesijärvi”
- Finnish: “Hollolan vesijärvi”
- Finnish: “Lahden Vesijärvi”
- Finnish: “Vesijärvi (Lahti)”
- Finnish: “Vesijärvi (Päijät-Häme)”
- Finnish: “Vesijärvi”
- French: “Vesijärvi”
- German: “Vesijärvi (Lahti)”
- German: “Vesijärvi (Päijät-Häme)”
- German: “Vesijärvi”
- Interlingue: “Vesijärvi”
- Irish: “Vesijärvi”
- Japanese: “ヴェシ湖”
- Latvian: “Vesijervi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vesijärvi”
- Russian: “Веси-йерви”
- Russian: “Веси-Ярви”
- Russian: “Весиярви”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vesijärvi”
- Slovak: “Vesijärvi”
- Spanish: “Lago Vesijärvi”
- Spanish: “Lahden Vesijärvi”
- Spanish: “Vesijarvi”
- Spanish: “Vesijärvi”
- Swedish: “Vesijärvi (Lahti)”
- Swedish: “Vesijärvi (Päijänne-Tavastland)”
- Swedish: “Vesijärvi”
- Turkish: “Vesijärvi”
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