Lake Zurich
Lake Zurich is a lake in Switzerland, that extends southeast of the city of Zurich. Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or Zürichsee may refer to the entire lake or specifically to the section downstream of the Hurden peninsula and Seedamm causeway.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: major lake in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Lake of Zurich”, “Lake of Zürich”, “Lake Zürich”, “Zuerichsee”, “Züricher See”, “Zürichsee”, and “Zürisee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stäfa railway station and Wädenswil railway station.
Stäfa railway station
Railway station
Stäfa is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich, situated in the municipality of Stäfa on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich. The station is located on the Lake Zurich right-bank line, within fare zone 143 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund.
Wädenswil railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gürbetaler, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wädenswil railway station is a railway station in Switzerland, situated next to the banks of Lake Zurich in the municipality of Wädenswil in the canton of Zurich.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mutzmalen and Richterswil.
Mutzmalen
Hamlet
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mutzmalen is a small village between Stäfa and Männedorf, in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Richterswil
Town
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Richterswil is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Richterswil is situated 2½ km south of Lake Zurich.
Wädenswil
Town
Photo: Voyager, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wädenswil is a municipality located in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The population, as of 2013, was about 21,000. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg were merged into the municipality of Wädenswil. Wädenswil is situated 2½ km west of Lake Zurich.
Lake Zurich
- Categories: area not part of a municipality of Switzerland and body of water
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Zurich” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة زيورخ”
- Armenian: “Ցյուրիխի լիճ”
- Arpitan: “Lèc de Tsurique”
- Balinese: “Danu Zürich”
- Basque: “Zürich aintzira”
- Belarusian: “Цюрыхскае возера”
- Bosnian: “Ciriško jezero”
- Bulgarian: “Цюрихско езеро”
- Catalan: “Llac de Zuric”
- Catalan: “Llac de Zúric”
- Catalan: “Llac de Zurich”
- Catalan: “Llac de Zürich”
- Catalan: “Zürichsee”
- Cebuano: “Zürichsee”
- Chinese: “苏黎世湖”
- Chinese: “蘇黎世湖”
- Chuvash: “Цюрих кӳлли”
- Czech: “Curyšské jezero”
- Dutch: “Meer van Zürich”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة زيوريخ”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره زيورخ”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Zuriko”
- Estonian: “Zürichi järv”
- Finnish: “Zürichinjärvi”
- French: “lac de Zurich”
- French: “Lac de Zurich”
- Galician: “lago de Zürich”
- Georgian: “ციურიხის ტბა”
- German: “Zürichsee”
- German: “Zürisee”
- Hebrew: “אגם ציריך”
- Hungarian: “Zürichi-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Zurich”
- Irish: “Loch Zürich”
- Italian: “lago di Zurigo”
- Italian: “Lago di Zurigo”
- Japanese: “チューリッヒ湖”
- Kazakh: “Цюрих көлі”
- Korean: “취리히 호”
- Korean: “취리히호”
- Latin: “Lacus Tigurinus”
- Latvian: “Cīrihes ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Ciuricho ežeras”
- Luxembourgish: “Zürichsee”
- Luxembourgish: “Zürichséi”
- Macedonian: “Циришко Езеро”
- Malay: “Tasik Zürich”
- Mingrelian: “ციურიხიშ ტობა”
- Northern Frisian: “Zürich Sia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zürichsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zürichsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Zürichsjøen”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੁਰਿਕ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه زوریخ”
- Polish: “Jezioro Zuryskie”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Zurique”
- Romanian: “Lacul Zürich”
- Romansh: “Lai da Turitg”
- Russian: “Цюрихское озеро”
- Serbian: “Циришко језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ciriško jezero”
- Slovak: “Zürišské jazero”
- Slovenian: “Züriško jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Zurich”
- Spanish: “Lago de Zúrich”
- Swedish: “Zürichsjön”
- Swiss German: “Zürisee”
- Tamil: “ஜூரிக் ஏரி”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบซือริช”
- Tosk Albanian: “Zürichsee”
- Turkish: “Zürih Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Цюрихське озеро”
- Venetian: “Łago de Zurigo”
- Welsh: “Llyn Zurich”
- Western Panjabi: “زیورچ جھیل”
- Wu Chinese: “苏黎世湖”
- Yiddish: “ציריך-אזערע”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇黎世湖”
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Localities in the Area
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