Mälaren
Mälaren, historically referred to as Lake Malar in English, is the third-largest freshwater lake in Sweden. Its area is 1,140 km ) and Svartsjölandet. Mälaren is low-lying and mostly relatively shallow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Sweden
- Also known as: “Lake Malar”, “Lake Mälar”, “Lake Mälaren”, and “Mälar Lake”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sättra and Lilla Stenby.
Sättra
Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sättra, Ekerö kommun is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. Sättra is situated 4 km south of Mälaren.
Lilla Stenby
Village
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Lilla Stenby is a locality situated in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 244 inhabitants in 2010. Lilla Stenby is situated 8 km southeast of Mälaren.
Lundkulla
Hamlet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lundkulla is a village in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. Lundkulla is situated 10 km southeast of Mälaren.
Mälaren
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Mälaren” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mälarmeer”
- Albanian: “Mälaren”
- Arabic: “بحيرة مالارين”
- Armenian: “Մելարեն”
- Basque: “Mälaren”
- Belarusian: “Возера Меларэн”
- Belarusian: “Меларэн”
- Belarusian: “Мэлярэн”
- Breton: “Mälaren”
- Bulgarian: “Меларен”
- Catalan: “Llac Mälaren”
- Catalan: “Mälaren”
- Chinese: “梅拉伦湖”
- Chinese: “梅拉倫湖”
- Chuvash: “Меларен”
- Croatian: “Mälaren”
- Czech: “Malaren”
- Czech: “Mälaren”
- Danish: “Mälaren”
- Dutch: “Malaren”
- Dutch: “Mälaren”
- Dutch: “Malarmeer”
- Dutch: “Mälarmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره مالارين”
- Esperanto: “Malaren”
- Esperanto: “Mälaren”
- Estonian: “Mälar”
- Estonian: “Mälaren”
- Estonian: “Mälareni järv”
- Estonian: “Mälari järv”
- Finnish: “Mälaren”
- French: “Lac Malar”
- French: “lac Mälar”
- French: “Lac Mälar”
- French: “Lac Malaren”
- French: “Lac Mälaren”
- French: “Mälaren”
- Galician: “Lago Mälar”
- Galician: “Lago Mälaren”
- Georgian: “მალარენის ტბა”
- Georgian: “მელარენი”
- Georgian: “მელარენის ტბა”
- German: “Mälar”
- German: “Mälaren”
- German: “Mälarsee”
- German: “Mellersee”
- Greek: “Μέλαρεν”
- Hebrew: “אגם מאלרן”
- Hebrew: “אגם מלארן”
- Hebrew: “מאלרן”
- Hebrew: “מלארן”
- Hebrew: “מלרן”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ מאלרן”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ מלארן”
- Hungarian: “Mälaren-tó”
- Hungarian: “Mälaren”
- Icelandic: “Lögurinn”
- Indonesian: “Danau Malaren”
- Indonesian: “Danau Mälaren”
- Indonesian: “Malaren”
- Indonesian: “Mälaren”
- Interlingua: “Laco Mälaren”
- Irish: “Mälaren”
- Italian: “Lago Mälaren”
- Italian: “Mälaren”
- Japanese: “メーラレン湖”
- Kazakh: “Меларен”
- Korean: “멜라렌 호”
- Korean: “멜라렌호”
- Kurdish: “Mälaren”
- Latin: “Lacus Melorus”
- Latvian: “Mälaren”
- Latvian: “Melarens”
- Latvian: “Mēlarens”
- Latvian: “Mēlerens”
- Lithuanian: “Melarenas”
- Macedonian: “Меларен”
- Mingrelian: “მელარენიშ ტობა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mälaren”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mälaren”
- Norwegian: “Mälaren”
- Persian: “دریاچه مئلارن”
- Persian: “دریاچه ملارن”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Mälaren”
- Polish: “Jezioro Mälaren”
- Polish: “Jezioro Melar”
- Polish: “Mälaren”
- Polish: “Melar”
- Portuguese: “Lago malar”
- Portuguese: “Lago mälaren”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mälaren”
- Portuguese: “Malaren”
- Portuguese: “Mälaren”
- Russian: “Маларен”
- Russian: “Мелар”
- Russian: “Меларен”
- Russian: “Меларна”
- Scots: “Mälaren”
- Serbian: “Mälaren”
- Serbian: “Melaren”
- Serbian: “Меларен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mälaren”
- Slovak: “Mälaren”
- Slovenian: “Mälaren”
- Spanish: “Lago Mälar”
- Spanish: “Lago Malaren”
- Spanish: “Lago Mälaren”
- Spanish: “Mälar”
- Spanish: “Malaren”
- Spanish: “Mälaren”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Mälaren”
- Swedish: “Mälaren”
- Swedish: “Mälarn”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบแมลาร์”
- Thai: “แมลาเริน”
- Turkish: “Mälaren Gölü”
- Turkish: “Mälaren”
- Ukrainian: “Меларен”
- Venetian: “Mälaren”
- Vietnamese: “Mälaren”
- Welsh: “Llyn Mälaren”
- Western Frisian: “Mälarmar”
- Wu Chinese: “梅拉伦湖”
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