Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore is a large lake on the south side of the Alps, mostly in the Italian Lake District and the northern part in Switzerland. The west side of the Italian part is in the Piedmont region and the east side in Lombardy.Photo: Corradox, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Awd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Awd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Localities in the Area
Laveno
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Laveno-Mombello is a town on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, in Varese Province, in the Lombardy region of Italy.
Verbania
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Verbania is a city on the promontory at the northern side of the entrance to the Borromean Bay, a western arm of Lake Maggiore in Piedmont, Italy.
Castelveccana
Village
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Castelveccana is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 70 kilometres northwest of Milan and about 20 kilometres northwest of Varese.
Lake Maggiore
- Type: lake
- Description: lake in Italy and Switzerland
- Category: area not part of a municipality of Switzerland
- Location: Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.95° or 45° 57' northLongitude
8.6333° or 8° 38' eastOpen Location Code
8FQCWJXM+X8Wikidata ID
Q14379Lake Maggiore Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Liqeni Maggiore
- Arabic: بحيرة ماجيوري
- Armenian: Լագո Մաջորե
- Arpitan: Lèc Major
- Arpitan: Lèc mayor
- Asturian: Llagu Mayor
- Basque: Maggiore
- Belarusian: Лага-Маджорэ
- Breton: Lenn Maggiore
- Bulgarian: Лаго Маджоре
- Catalan: Llac Maggiore
- Cebuano: Lago Maggiore (lanaw sa Swisa)
- Cebuano: Lago Maggiore
- Chinese: 馬焦雷湖
- Chinese: 马焦雷湖
- Chuvash: Лаго-Маджоре
- Croatian: Maggiore
- Czech: Lago Maggiore
- Danish: Lago Maggiore
- Danish: Verbano
- Dutch: Lago Maggiore
- Egyptian Arabic: بحيره ماجيورى
- English: Lago Maggiore
- English: Lake Verbano
- English: Verbano
- Esperanto: Majora Lago
- Estonian: Lago Maggiore
- Finnish: Maggiorejärvi
- French: Lac Majeur
- French: Verbano
- French: lac Majeur
- Galician: Lago Maior
- Georgian: ლაგო-მაჯორე
- German: Lago Maggiore
- German: Langensee
- Gilaki: ماجيؤره دریاچه
- Greek: Λίμνη Ματζόρε
- Hebrew: אגם מאג'ורה
- Hungarian: Lago Maggiore
- Icelandic: Maggiore-vatn
- Indonesian: Danau Maggiore
- Italian: Verbano
- Italian: lago Maggiore
- Japanese: マッジョーレ湖
- Kirghiz: Лаго-Мажоре
- Korean: 마조레호
- Latin: Verbanus lacus
- Latvian: Lago Madžore
- Latvian: Madžores ezers
- Limburgan: Lago Maggiore
- Lithuanian: Madžorė
- Lombard: Lagh Maggior
- Macedonian: Маџоре
- Mingrelian: ლაგო-მაჯორე
- Northern Frisian: Lago Maggiore
- Norwegian: Maggioresjøen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lago Maggiore
- Norwegian Bokmål: Maggioresjøen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lago Maggiore
- Persian: دریاچه ماجیوره
- Piemontese: Lagh Magior
- Polish: Jezioro Maggiore
- Polish: Lago Maggiore
- Polish: Maggiore
- Polish: Verbano
- Portuguese: Lago Maior
- Romanian: Lacul Maggiore
- Romansh: Lago Maggiore
- Russian: Лаго-Маджоре
- Scots: Loch Maggiore
- Serbian: Мађоре
- Serbo-Croatian: Maggiore
- Sicilian: Lacu Maggiuri
- Slovak: Lago Maggiore
- Slovenian: Jezero Maggiore
- Slovenian: Lago Maggiore
- Slovenian: jezero Maggiore
- Spanish: Lago Mayor
- Swahili: Ziwa Maggiore
- Swedish: Lago Maggiore
- Swedish: Lago Verbano
- Swiss German: Lago Maggiore
- Swiss German: Langesee
- Thai: ทะเลสาบมัจโจเร
- Thai: ทะเลสาบแวร์บาโน
- Tosk Albanian: Langensee
- Turkish: Maggiore Gölü
- Ukrainian: Маджоре
- Urdu: جھیل ماجیوری
- Venetian: Łago Magiór
- Venetian: Łago Major
- Vietnamese: Hồ Maggiore
- Welsh: Lago Maggiore
- Welsh: Llyn Maggiore
- Welsh: lago Maggiore
- Welsh: llyn Maggiore
- Wu Chinese: 马焦雷湖
Other Places Named Lake Maggiore
Localities in the Area
- GhiffaVillage
- RoncoVillage
- Villaggio Giulio NoiaHamlet
- L'AmericanaLocality
- Sasso ScisenoLocality
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