Lake Balaton
Balaton is the biggest lake by surface area in Central Europe and gives its name to this entire Hungarian Lake Balaton region.
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Lake Balaton
- Type: Lake
- Description: freshwater lake in Hungary
- Also known as: “Balaton Lake”, “Blatenské jezero”, “Platten See”, “Platten-See”, and “بحيرة بالاتون”
- Categories: rift lake, geographical small region of Hungary, and Natura 2000 site
- Location: Veszprém County, Central Transdanubia, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
46.8333° or 46° 50′ north
Longitude of center
17.75° or 17° 45′ east
Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Lake Balaton” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Liqeni Ballaton”
- Arabic: “بالاتون”
- Aragonese: “Laco Balaton”
- Armenian: “Բալատոն”
- Asturian: “Llagu Balatón”
- Azerbaijani: “Balaton gölü”
- Balinese: “Danu Balaton”
- Bashkir: “Балатон”
- Basque: “Balaton”
- Belarusian: “Балатан”
- Belarusian: “Балатон”
- Belarusian: “Возера Балатон”
- Bengali: “বালাতন হ্রদ”
- Breton: “Lenn Balaton”
- Bulgarian: “Балатон”
- Catalan: “Balaton”
- Cebuano: “Balaton (lanaw)”
- Cebuano: “Balaton”
- Chinese: “巴拉顿湖”
- Chuvash: “Балатон”
- Croatian: “Blatno jezero”
- Czech: “Balaton”
- Danish: “Balatonsøen”
- Dutch: “Balatonmeer”
- Eastern Mari: “Балатон”
- Erzya: “Балатон”
- Esperanto: “Balatono”
- Estonian: “Balaton”
- Finnish: “Balaton-järvi”
- Finnish: “Balaton”
- French: “lac Balaton”
- French: “Lac Balaton”
- Galician: “Lago Balaton”
- Georgian: “ბალატონი”
- German: “Balaton”
- German: “Plattensee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Μπάλατον”
- Greek: “Μπάλατον”
- Hebrew: “אגם בלטון”
- Hungarian: “Balaton”
- Icelandic: “Balatonvatn”
- Ido: “Balaton”
- Inari Sami: “Balaton”
- Indonesian: “Danau Balaton”
- Interlingue: “Balaton”
- Italian: “Balaton”
- Japanese: “バラトン湖”
- Kazakh: “Балатон”
- Kirghiz: “Балатон көлү”
- Korean: “벌러톤 호”
- Korean: “벌러톤호”
- Latin: “Lacus Pelso”
- Latin: “Pelso Lacus”
- Latvian: “Balatons”
- Limburgan: “Balatonmeer”
- Literary Chinese: “巴拉頓湖”
- Lithuanian: “Balatonas”
- Lombard: “Balaton”
- Lombard: “Lach Balaton”
- Macedonian: “Балатон”
- Mingrelian: “ბალატონი”
- Mongolian: “Балатон нуур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balaton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balatonsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Balaton”
- Norwegian: “Balatonsjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Balaton”
- Ossetian: “Балатон”
- Persian: “دریاچه بالاتون”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Balatòn”
- Polish: “Balaton”
- Portuguese: “Lago Balaton”
- Romanian: “Lacul Balaton”
- Russian: “Балатон”
- Rusyn: “Балатон”
- Sardinian: “Lagu Balaton”
- Serbian: “Балатон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balaton”
- Sicilian: “Lacu Balaton”
- Slovak: “Balaton”
- Slovenian: “Blatno jezero”
- Spanish: “Balaton”
- Spanish: “Lago Balatón”
- Spanish: “Lago Bálaton”
- Swedish: “Balaton”
- Swiss German: “Balaton”
- Tajik: “Балантон”
- Tatar: “Балатон”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบบอลอโตน”
- Turkish: “Balaton Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Балатон”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Балатон”
- Upper Sorbian: “Błótoń”
- Uzbek: “Balaton”
- Venetian: “Balaton”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Balaton”
- Welsh: “Llyn Balaton”
- Western Mari: “Балатон”
- Wu Chinese: “巴拉顿湖”
- Yakut: “Балатон”
- Yue Chinese: “巴拉頓湖”
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