Saimaa
Saimaa is a lake in south-eastern Finland. At 1,147 km², it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fifth largest in Europe. There are 13,710 islands in Saimaa and the connected waterways.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: largest lake in Finland and the fourth largest in Europe
- Also known as: “Lake Saimaa”, “Ozero Sayma”, “Saima Lake”, “Saimen”, and “Suur-Saimaa”
Saimaa
- Category: body of water
- Location: Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saimaa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saimaameer”
- Arabic: “سايما”
- Armenian: “Սայմա”
- Asturian: “Llagu Saimaa”
- Azerbaijani: “Sayma gölü”
- Bashkir: “Сайма”
- Basque: “Saimaa”
- Belarusian: “Возера Сайма”
- Belarusian: “Сайма”
- Belarusian: “Саймаа”
- Breton: “Saimaa”
- Bulgarian: “Саима”
- Bulgarian: “Саимаа”
- Catalan: “Llac Saimaa”
- Catalan: “Saimaa”
- Cebuano: “Saimaa”
- Chinese: “塞馬湖”
- Chinese: “塞马湖”
- Chuvash: “Сайма”
- Croatian: “Saimaa”
- Czech: “Jezero Saimaa”
- Czech: “Saimaa”
- Danish: “Saimaa søen”
- Danish: “Saimaa-sø”
- Danish: “Saimaa”
- Dutch: “Saimaa”
- Dutch: “Saimaameer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سايما”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سايما”
- Esperanto: “Saimaa”
- Estonian: “Saimaa järv”
- Estonian: “Saimaa järvistu”
- Estonian: “Saimaa”
- Fiji Hindi: “Saimaa Talaab”
- Finnish: “Iso-Saimaa”
- Finnish: “Saimaa”
- Finnish: “Saimen”
- Finnish: “Suur-Saimaa”
- French: “Lac Saimaa”
- French: “Saimaa”
- French: “Saimen”
- French: “Suur-Saimaa”
- Galician: “Saimaa”
- Georgian: “საიმა”
- German: “Saimaa”
- German: “Saimaasee”
- German: “Suur-Saimaa”
- Greek: “Σάιμαα”
- Hebrew: “אגם סאימה”
- Hebrew: “סאימה”
- Hungarian: “Saimaa”
- Icelandic: “Saimaa”
- Inari Sami: “Saimaa”
- Indonesian: “Danau Saimaa”
- Indonesian: “Saimaa”
- Interlingue: “Saimaa”
- Inupiaq: “Saimaa”
- Italian: “Lago Saimaa”
- Italian: “Saimaa”
- Japanese: “サイマー湖”
- Kazakh: “Сайма”
- Korean: “사이마 호”
- Korean: “사이마호”
- Latin: “Saima”
- Latin: “Saimaa”
- Latvian: “Saima ezers”
- Latvian: “Saimā ezers”
- Latvian: “Saimā”
- Latvian: “Saimaa”
- Latvian: “Saimas ezers”
- Latvian: “Saimen”
- Lithuanian: “Saima”
- Macedonian: “Сајма”
- Malagasy: “Saimaa”
- Mingrelian: “საიმა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iso-Saimaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saimaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saimen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Södra Saimen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Storsaimen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suur-Saimaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saimaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saimen”
- Norwegian: “Saimen”
- Persian: “دریاچه سایما”
- Polish: “Jezioro Saimaa”
- Polish: “Saimaa”
- Portuguese: “Lago Saimaa”
- Portuguese: “Saimaa”
- Quechua: “Saimaa”
- Russian: “Озеро Саймаа”
- Russian: “Сайма”
- Russian: “Саймаа”
- Scots: “Saimaa”
- Serbian: “Saimaa”
- Serbian: “Saimen”
- Serbian: “Sajma”
- Serbian: “Језеро Сајма”
- Serbian: “Сајма”
- Serbian: “Сајмен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saimaa”
- Skolt Sami: “Saimaa”
- Slovak: “Saimaa”
- Slovenian: “jezero Saimaa”
- Slovenian: “Saimaa”
- Spanish: “Lago Saimaa”
- Spanish: “Saimaa”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Saimaa”
- Swedish: “Haukivesi”
- Swedish: “Saima”
- Swedish: “Saimaa”
- Swedish: “Saimen”
- Swedish: “Stor-Saimen”
- Tatar: “Сайма”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบไซมา”
- Turkish: “Saimaa Gölü”
- Turkish: “Saimaa”
- Ukrainian: “Саімаа”
- Ukrainian: “Саїмаа”
- Ukrainian: “Сайма”
- Ukrainian: “Саймаа”
- Urdu: “سائی ما(جھیل)”
- Urdu: “سائی ما”
- Uzbek: “Sayma”
- Venetian: “Saimaa”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Saimaa”
- Vietnamese: “Saimaa”
- Volapük: “Saimaa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saimaa”
- Welsh: “Llyn Saimaa”
- Welsh: “Saimaa”
- Western Mari: “Саймаа йӓр”
- Wu Chinese: “塞马湖”
- Yue Chinese: “塞馬湖”
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