Lake Balaton
Balaton is the biggest lake by surface area in Central Europe and gives its name to this entire Hungarian Lake Balaton region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Keszthely and Balatonfüred.
Keszthely
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Keszthely is a Hungarian city of 20,895 inhabitants located on the western shore of Lake Balaton. It is the second largest city by the lake and one of the more important cultural, educational and economic hubs in the region.
Balatonfüred
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Balatonfüred is a resort town in Veszprém county, in Hungary. The town with a population of 13,000 is situated on the northern shore of Lake Balaton. It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake shore and is a yachting destination.
Hévíz
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Hévíz is a spa town in the Lake Balaton region of Hungary, about 8 km from Keszthely.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Siófok and Tapolca.
Siófok
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Siófok is a town on the south coast of Lake Balaton. The charming little town is one of the most popular holiday resorts in Hungary. The population is around 35,000 people but in the summer season there is another 200,000 people being on vacation at the same time.
Tapolca
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Tapolca is a town in Veszprém County, Hungary, close to Lake Balaton. It is located at around. The town has an outer suburb, Tapolca-Diszel, approximately 5 km to the East.
Gyenesdiás
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Gyenesdiás is a lovely resort village only 100 km from the western border of Hungary, in the West Balaton region 15 km from the Hévíz-Balaton Airport. The towns of Keszthely, known for its fascinating Festetics Palace, and Hévíz with its world famous spa are only a few kilometres from here.
Zalakaros
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Zalakaros is a town of 1,800 people in Lake Balaton region. Zalakaros is famous for its thermal spring bath. For children, it also has a waterpark. It gained its fame in 1962, when prospective oil drilling struck a nearly 96 °C source at a depth of 2,000 m.
Vonyarcvashegy
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Vonyarcvashegy is a town and tourist resort on the north shore of Lake Balaton, in western Hungary. The settlement was created when the former Vonyarc and Vashegy settlements were united in 1850.
Marcali
Marcali is a town in Somogy County, Hungary, and the seat of Marcali District. The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region.
Fonyód
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Fonyód is a town and holiday resort on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, in north-west Somogy County, western Hungary, with over 4,700 residents. It is the seat of Fonyód District.
Balatonszemes
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Balatonszemes is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It lies on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, on the northern slopes of the Outer Somogy hills overlooking the lake and on the half-kilometre wide coastal plain.
Lake Balaton
- Type: Lake
- Description: freshwater lake in Hungary
- Also known as: “Balaton”, “Balaton Lake”, “Platten See”, and “Platten-See”
- 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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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Lake Balaton” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Liqeni Ballaton”
- Arabic: “بالاتون”
- Arabic: “بحيرة 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: “巴拉頓湖”
- Chinese: “巴拉顿湖”
- Chuvash: “Балатон”
- Croatian: “Blatno jezero”
- Czech: “Balaton”
- Czech: “Blatenské jezero”
- 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: “Balatonsjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balatonsjøen”
- 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”
- Tosk Albanian: “Balaton”
- Turkish: “Balaton Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Балатон”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Балатон”
- Upper Sorbian: “Balaton”
- 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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