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.
Photo: Vesta, Public domain.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Dalarna, central Sweden
- Also known as: “Lake Silja”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lundbjörken.
Siljan
- Categories: crater, lake water body, and body of water
- Location: Dalarna, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.83333° or 60° 50′ north
Longitude
14.75° or 14° 45′ east
Elevation
162 metres (531 feet)
Open location code
9FGPRQM2+82
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Satellite Map
Discover Siljan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Catalan: “Llac Siljan”
- Chinese: “錫利揚湖”
- Chinese: “锡利扬湖”
- Chuvash: “Сильян”
- Czech: “Orsasjon”
- Czech: “Orsasjön”
- Czech: “Siljan”
- Danish: “Siljansøen”
- Dutch: “Siljan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سيلچان”
- Esperanto: “Siljan”
- Finnish: “Siljan”
- Finnish: “Siljanjärvi”
- French: “lac Siljan”
- 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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