Vättern
Vättern is the second-largest lake in Sweden, after Vänern, and the sixth-largest lake in Europe. It is a long, finger-shaped body of fresh water in south central Sweden, to the southeast of Vänern, pointing at the tip of Scandinavia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: second largest lake in Sweden
- Also known as: “Lake Vätter”, “Lake Wether”, “Lake Wetter”, “Vaettern”, “Vätter Lake”, “Vättern Lake”, “Vetter Lake”, “Vettern”, “Wetter”, and “Wettern”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rogslösa.
Rogslösa
Hamlet
Photo: Bernt Fransson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rogslösa is a hamlet, which is situated 9 km east of Vättern.
Vättern
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Vättern from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Vättern” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vätternmeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة فاترن”
- Arabic: “بحيرة فترن”
- Armenian: “Վեթեռն”
- Azerbaijani: “Vettern gölü”
- Basque: “Vattern”
- Basque: “Vättern”
- Belarusian: “Ветэрн”
- Belarusian: “Возера Ветэрн”
- Belarusian: “Вэтэрн”
- Bosnian: “Vättern”
- Breton: “Vättern”
- Bulgarian: “Ветерн”
- Catalan: “Vättern”
- Chinese: “韋特恩湖”
- Chinese: “韦特恩湖”
- Chuvash: “Веттерн”
- Croatian: “Vättern”
- Czech: “Vattern”
- Czech: “Vättern”
- Czech: “Vätternské jezero”
- Danish: “Vättern”
- Dutch: “Vattermeer”
- Dutch: “Vättermeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره فترن”
- Esperanto: “Vattern”
- Esperanto: “Vättern”
- Estonian: “Vättern”
- Finnish: “Vättern”
- French: “Lac de Vättern”
- French: “Lac Vättern”
- French: “Vätter”
- French: “Vattern”
- French: “Vättern”
- French: “Vetter”
- Galician: “Lago Vättern”
- Georgian: “ვეტერნი”
- German: “Vätter-See”
- German: “Vättern-See”
- German: “Vättern”
- German: “Vätternsee”
- German: “Vättersee”
- German: “Wettersee”
- Greek: “Βέτερν”
- Hebrew: “אגם וטרן”
- Hungarian: “Vättern-tó”
- Hungarian: “Vättern”
- Icelandic: “Veitur”
- Indonesian: “Danau Vattern”
- Indonesian: “Danau Vättern”
- Interlingua: “Vättern”
- Irish: “Vättern”
- Italian: “Lago Vättern”
- Italian: “Vättern”
- Japanese: “ヴェッテルン湖”
- Kirghiz: “Веттерн көлү”
- Korean: “베테른 호”
- Korean: “베테른호”
- Kurdish: “Vättern”
- Latin: “Lacus Veter”
- Latvian: “Vättern”
- Latvian: “Veterna ezers”
- Latvian: “Veterns”
- Lithuanian: “Veternas”
- Macedonian: “Ветерн”
- Northern Frisian: “Vättern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vättern”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vättern”
- Norwegian: “Vättern”
- Ossetian: “Веттерн”
- Persian: “دریاچه وترن”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Vättern”
- Polish: “Jezioro Wetter”
- Polish: “Vättern”
- Polish: “Wetter”
- Portuguese: “Lago Vättern”
- Portuguese: “Vättern”
- Romanian: “Lacul Vättern”
- Russian: “Веттерн”
- Russian: “Веттерна”
- Scots: “Loch Vättern”
- Serbian: “Vättern”
- Serbian: “Vetern”
- Serbian: “Ветерн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vättern”
- Slovenian: “Vättern”
- Spanish: “Lago Vättern”
- Spanish: “Vattern”
- Spanish: “Vättern”
- Swedish: “Vättern”
- Thai: “เว็ตเติน”
- Thai: “เวเทิร์น”
- Turkish: “Vättern Gölü”
- Turkish: “Vättern”
- Ukrainian: “Веттерн”
- Venetian: “Vättern”
- Welsh: “Llyn Vättern”
- Western Frisian: “Vättermar”
- Wu Chinese: “韦特恩湖”
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