Lac de Joux
Lac de Joux is a lake in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. With a surface area of 9.5 km2, it is the largest lake in Switzerland lying above 1,000 metres. Lac de Joux is located in the Jura Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Le Lieu railway station and Temple du Lieu.
Le Lieu railway station
Railway station
Le Lieu railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Le Lieu, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Vallorbe–Le Brassus line of Swiss Federal Railways and Travys.
Lake Ter
Photo: Pmau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Ter is a small lake at Le Lieu, in the Vallée de Joux of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Lieu and Le Séchey.
Le Lieu
Village
Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Le Lieu is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the Vallée de Joux.
Le Séchey
Hamlet
Photo: Pmau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Le Séchey is a part of Le Lieu, a municipality in the La Vallée district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
L’Abbaye
Village
L'Abbaye is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, located in the Jura-Nord Vaudois district in the Vallée de Joux. It takes its name from Lac de Joux Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery.
Lac de Joux
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland
- Categories: reservoir, 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 Arpitan to Ukrainian—“Lac de Joux” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Lèc de Jor”
- Catalan: “Lac de Joux”
- Catalan: “Llac de Joux”
- Cebuano: “Lac de Joux”
- Chinese: “茹湖”
- Chuvash: “Жу”
- Czech: “Lac de Joux”
- Dutch: “Lac de Joux”
- Esperanto: “Lago de Joux”
- French: “lac de Joux”
- French: “Lac de Joux”
- French: “Tour du lac de Joux”
- German: “Lac de Joux”
- Italian: “lago di Joux”
- Italian: “Lago di Joux”
- Japanese: “ジュー湖”
- Latvian: “Žū ezers”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lac de Joux”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lac de Joux”
- Norwegian: “Lac de Joux”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac de Joux”
- Polish: “Joux”
- Polish: “Lac de Joux”
- Portuguese: “Lago de Joux”
- Portuguese: “Lago Joux”
- Romansh: “Lac de Joux”
- Russian: “Жу”
- Slovak: “Lac de Joux”
- Spanish: “Lago de Joux”
- Swedish: “Lac de Joux”
- Swiss German: “Lac de Joux”
- Tosk Albanian: “Lac de Joux”
- Turkish: “Joux Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Жу (озеро)”
- Ukrainian: “Жу”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lac de Joux”. Photo: Crox, CC BY 2.5.