Lake Thun
Lake Thun is an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named after the city of Thun, on its northern shore. At 48.3 km2 in surface area, it is the largest Swiss lake entirely within a single canton.
- Lake
- …lies at an elevation of 558 metres (1,831 feet)
- Description: lake in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as“Lake of Thoune”“Thunersee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ralligen estate and Spiez Castle.
Spiez Castle
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merligen and Faulensee.
Sigriswil
Village
Lake Thun
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
46.69228° or 46° 41′ 32″ north
Longitude
7.72085° or 7° 43′ 15″ east
Open location code
8FR9MPRC+W8
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Thun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة ثون”
- Armenian: “Թուն լիճ”
- Bulgarian: “Тунско езеро”
- Bulgarian: “Тхунерсе”
- Catalan: “Llac de Thun”
- Cebuano: “Thunersee”
- Chinese: “图恩湖”
- Chuvash: “Тун кӳлли”
- Chuvash: “Тун”
- Czech: “Thunské jezero”
- Dutch: “Meer van Thun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ثون”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Thun”
- Estonian: “Thuni järv”
- Finnish: “Thun-järvi”
- Finnish: “Thuninjärvi”
- French: “lac de Thoune”
- French: “Lac de Thoune”
- Georgian: “თუნის ტბა”
- German: “Thunersee”
- Hebrew: “אגם תון”
- Hungarian: “Thuni-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Thun”
- Italian: “lago di Thun”
- Italian: “Lago di Thun”
- Japanese: “トゥーン湖”
- Korean: “툰호”
- Latvian: “Tūnas ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Tuno ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Тун”
- Mingrelian: “თუნიშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thunersjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thunsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Thunersjøen”
- Polish: “Thun”
- Polish: “Thunersee”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Thun”
- Romanian: “Lacul Thun”
- Romansh: “Lai da Thun”
- Russian: “Тунское озеро”
- Slovak: “Thunské jazero”
- Slovenian: “Thunersee”
- Slovenian: “Thunsko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Thun”
- Spanish: “Thun”
- Swedish: “Thunsjön”
- Swiss German: “schönscht-see-ir-schwiz”
- Swiss German: “Thunersee”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบทูน”
- Turkish: “Thun Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Тунське озеро”
- Venetian: “lago de Thun”
- Welsh: “Llyn Thun”
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