Vänern
Vänern is the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake in Europe after Ladoga and Onega in Russia. It is located in the provinces of Västergötland, Dalsland, and Värmland in the southwest of the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: largest lake in Sweden
- Also known as: “Lake Wener”, “Vaenern”, “Väner”, “Väner Lake”, “Vänern Lake”, “Vener Lake”, “Wener”, “Wenern”, and “Wenner”
Vänern
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vänern” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vänernmeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة فنرن”
- Armenian: “Վենեռն”
- Asturian: “Llagu Vänern”
- Azerbaijani: “Vanern gölü”
- Azerbaijani: “Venern gölü”
- Bashkir: “Венерн”
- Basque: “Vanern”
- Basque: “Vänern”
- Belarusian: “Венерн”
- Belarusian: “Возера Венерн”
- Belarusian: “Вэнэрн”
- Bosnian: “Vänern”
- Breton: “Vänern”
- Bulgarian: “Венерн”
- Catalan: “llac Vänern”
- Catalan: “Llac Vänern”
- Catalan: “Vänern”
- Cebuano: “Vänern”
- Chinese: “維納恩湖”
- Chinese: “维纳恩湖”
- Chuvash: “Венерн”
- Croatian: “Vänern”
- Czech: “Vanern”
- Czech: “Vänern”
- Czech: “Vänernské jezero”
- Danish: “Vænern”
- Danish: “Vänern”
- Dutch: “Vanermeer”
- Dutch: “Vänermeer”
- Dutch: “Vanern”
- Dutch: “Vänern”
- Dutch: “Vanernmeer”
- Dutch: “Vänernmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره فنرن”
- Esperanto: “Vanern”
- Esperanto: “Vänern”
- Estonian: “Vänern”
- Fiji Hindi: “Vanern Talaab”
- Finnish: “Vänern”
- French: “Lac Väner”
- French: “Lac Vanern”
- French: “Lac Vänern”
- French: “Vanern”
- French: “Vänern”
- French: “Vener”
- Galician: “Lago Vänern”
- Georgian: “ვენერნი”
- German: “Dalbosjön”
- German: “Vänern”
- German: “Vänernsee”
- German: “Vänersee”
- German: “Värmlandssjön”
- Greek: “Βένερν”
- Hebrew: “ונן”
- Hebrew: “ונרן”
- Hindi: “वेनर्न”
- Hungarian: “Vänern-tó”
- Hungarian: “Vänern”
- Icelandic: “Vænir”
- Icelandic: “Vänern”
- Indonesian: “Vänern”
- Italian: “Lago Vänern”
- Italian: “Vänern”
- Japanese: “ヴェーネルン湖”
- Kazakh: “Venern”
- Kazakh: “Венерн”
- Kazakh: “ВЕНЕРН”
- Kazakh: “ۆەنەرن”
- Kirghiz: “Венерн көлү”
- Korean: “베네른 호”
- Korean: “베네른호”
- Kurdish: “Vänern”
- Latin: “Lacus Vener”
- Latvian: “Vänern”
- Latvian: “Venerns”
- Latvian: “Vēnerns”
- Lithuanian: “Venernas”
- Macedonian: “Венерн”
- Mingrelian: “ვენერნი”
- Northern Frisian: “Vänern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vänern”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Venern”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vänern”
- Norwegian: “Vänern”
- Ossetian: “Венерн”
- Persian: “دریاچه ونرن”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Vänern”
- Polish: “Jezioro Wener”
- Polish: “Vänern”
- Polish: “Wener”
- Portuguese: “Lago Vänern”
- Portuguese: “Vänern”
- Romanian: “Lacul Vänern”
- Russian: “Венерн”
- Russian: “Веннерна”
- Scots: “Loch Vänern”
- Scots: “Vänern”
- Serbian: “Vänern”
- Serbian: “Venern”
- Serbian: “Венерн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vänern”
- Slovak: “Vänern”
- Slovenian: “Vänern”
- Spanish: “Lago Vanern”
- Spanish: “Lago Vänern”
- Spanish: “Vanern”
- Spanish: “Vänern”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Vänern”
- Swedish: “Dalbosjön”
- Swedish: “Vänern”
- Swedish: “Värmlandssjön”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบแวเนิน”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบแวแนร์น”
- Thai: “แวเนิน”
- Turkish: “Vanern Gölü”
- Turkish: “Vänern Gölü”
- Turkish: “Vänern”
- Ukrainian: “Венерн”
- Uzbek: “Venern”
- Venetian: “Vänern”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Vänern”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vänern”
- Welsh: “Llyn Vänern”
- Welsh: “Vanern”
- Welsh: “Vänern”
- Western Frisian: “Vänermar”
- Wu Chinese: “维纳恩湖”
- Yue Chinese: “維納恩湖”
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