Lake Murten
Lake Morat or more rarely Lake Murten is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore.
- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 429 metres (1,407 feet)
- Description: lake in Switzerland
- Also known as“Lac de Morat”“Lake Morat”“Murtensee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guevaux Castle and Murten/Morat railway station.
Murten/Morat railway station
Murten/Morat railway station is a railway station… Murten/Morat railway station is situated 2½ km east of Lake Murten.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Môtier and Meyriez.
Meyriez
Meyriez is a municipality in the district of See or du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Greng
Village
Greng is a municipality in the district of See/Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Lake Murten
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Latitude
46.9316° or 46° 55′ 54″ north
Longitude
7.08304° or 7° 4′ 59″ east
Open location code
8FR9W3JM+J6
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Wu Chinese—“Lake Murten” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Lèc de Morât”
- Bulgarian: “Муртенсе”
- Catalan: “Llac Murten”
- Cebuano: “Murtensee”
- Chinese: “穆尔滕湖”
- Chuvash: “Муртен кӳлли”
- Croatian: “Murtensko jezero”
- Czech: “Lac de Morat”
- Czech: “Murtensee”
- Czech: “Murtenské jezero”
- Dutch: “Meer van Murten”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورتين”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Morato”
- Finnish: “Murtensee”
- French: “Lac de Morat”
- French: “Murtensee”
- Galician: “Lago de Morat”
- German: “Lac de Morat”
- German: “Murtensee”
- German: “Murtenersee” (historical)
- German: “Üchtsee” (historical)
- Hebrew: “אגם מוראט”
- Hungarian: “Murteni-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Morat”
- Italian: “Lago di Morat”
- Italian: “Lago di Murten”
- Japanese: “ムルテン湖”
- Japanese: “モラ湖”
- Korean: “무르텐호”
- Latin: “Lacus Muratensis”
- Latvian: “Murtenes ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Murteno ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Муртенско Езеро”
- Mingrelian: “მურტენიშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lac de Morat”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moratsjøen”
- Polish: “Murtensee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Murten”
- Romanian: “Lac de Morat”
- Romanian: “Lacul Murten”
- Romanian: “Murtenersee”
- Romansh: “Lai da Murten”
- Russian: “Муртензе”
- Russian: “Муртенское озеро”
- Serbian: “Језеро Муртен”
- Serbian: “Муртенско језеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murtensko jezero”
- Sicilian: “Lacu di Murten”
- Slovenian: “Murtensee”
- Slovenian: “Murtensko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago de Murten/Morat”
- Swedish: “Murtensee”
- Swedish: “Murtensjön”
- Swiss German: “Murtensee”
- Swiss German: “Murtesee”
- Turkish: “Murten Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Муртензее”
- Venetian: “lago de Morat”
- Welsh: “Llyn Murten”
- Wu Chinese: “穆尔滕湖”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Guévaux and Lugnorre.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include freiburger spital HFR, Standort Meyriez-Murten and Faoug railway station.
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