Siljan
Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's seventh largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is 354 km2.
Vesta, Public domain.- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 161 metres (528 feet)
- …is also known as “Lake Silja”
- Description: lake in Dalarna, central Sweden
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lundbjörken.
Lundbjörken
Hamlet
Lundbjörken is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km southwest of Siljan.
Siljan
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Latitude
60.83333° or 60° 50′ north
Longitude
14.75° or 14° 45′ east
Open location code
9FGPRQM2+82
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Siljan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Siljan lakua”
- Basque: “Siljan”
- Belarusian: “Возера Сільян”
- Belarusian: “Сільян”
- Bulgarian: “Силян”
- Catalan: “Llac Siljan”
- Chinese: “錫利揚湖”
- Chinese: “锡利扬湖”
- Chuvash: “Сильян”
- Czech: “Orsasjön”
- Czech: “Siljan”
- Danish: “Siljansøen”
- Dutch: “Siljan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سيلچان”
- Esperanto: “Siljan”
- Finnish: “Siljan”
- Finnish: “Siljanjärvi”
- French: “Lac Siljan”
- French: “Siljan”
- Galician: “Lago Siljan”
- German: “Siljan”
- German: “Siljansee”
- Hebrew: “אגם סיליאן”
- Hungarian: “Siljan”
- Icelandic: “Siljan (vatn)”
- Icelandic: “Siljan”
- Italian: “Siljan”
- Japanese: “シリヤン”
- Kurdish: “Siljan”
- Latvian: “Siljan”
- Latvian: “Siljana ezers”
- Latvian: “Siljans”
- Limburgan: “Siljan”
- Lithuanian: “Siljanas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Siljan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Siljan i Sverige”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Siljan-vatnet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Siljan”
- Norwegian: “Siljan”
- Polish: “Krater Siljan”
- Polish: “Siljan”
- Portuguese: “Lago Siljan”
- Portuguese: “Siljan”
- Romanian: “Lacul Siljan”
- Russian: “Сильян”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Siljan”
- Spanish: “Lago Siljan”
- Spanish: “Siljan”
- Swedish: “Siljan”
- Turkish: “Siljan Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Сільян”
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