Vanajavesi
Vanajavesi is a large lake in southern Finland, in the regions of Pirkanmaa and Kanta-Häme. It is part of the Kokemäenjoki basin. The lake gathers waters from a wide area in Pirkanmaa, Kanta-Häme and parts of the Päijät-Häme region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Finland
- Also known as: “Vanajanselkä” and “Vanajaselkä”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sääksmäki and Tyrväntö.
Sääksmäki
Village
Sääksmäki is a former municipality, currently part of Valkeakoski in the Pirkanmaa region of Western Finland. A past president of Finland, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, the Finnish film producer and director Veikko Aaltonen, eminent Finnish historian Eino Jutikkala, and actress Pirkko Mannola, were born there. Sääksmäki is situated 7 km northwest of Vanajavesi.
Tyrväntö
Town
Tyrväntö is a former municipality of Finland in the Häme Province, now in Kanta-Häme. It was consolidated with Hattula in 1971. The northern part of the former municipality was transferred to Valkeakoski in 1978. Tyrväntö is situated 9 km east of Vanajavesi.
Vanajavesi
- Categories: lake or pond and body of water
- Location: Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Vanajavesi” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Vanajavesi lakua”
- Basque: “Vanajavesi”
- Catalan: “Vanajavesi”
- Cebuano: “Vanajavesi (lanaw sa Finlandia, lat 61,16, long 24,17)”
- Cebuano: “Vanajavesi”
- Chinese: “瓦納亞韋西”
- Chinese: “瓦纳亚韦西”
- Czech: “Vanajavesi”
- Dutch: “Vanajavesi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ڤاناچاڤيسى”
- Esperanto: “Vanajavesi”
- Finnish: “Vanaja”
- Finnish: “Vanajaveden kapeikko”
- Finnish: “Vanajavesi”
- French: “Vanajavesi”
- German: “Vanajavesi”
- Irish: “Vanajavesi”
- Italian: “Vanajavesi”
- Japanese: “ヴァナヤヴェシ湖”
- Japanese: “バナジャベシ湖”
- Polish: “Vanajavesi”
- Romanian: “Vanajavesi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vanajavesi”
- Slovak: “Vanajavesi”
- Spanish: “Vanajavesi”
- Swedish: “Vanajavesi”
- Swedish: “Vångån”
- Turkish: “Vanajavesi”
- Uzbek: “Vangavesi”
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