Lake Geneva

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (September 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,587 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Léman]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Léman}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Lake Geneva
French: Léman German: Genfersee Italian: Lago Lemano Romansh: Lai da Genevra
Satellite image
Lake Geneva Show map of Rhône-Alpes Lake Geneva Show map of Canton of Vaud Lake Geneva Show map of Canton of Valais Lake Geneva Show map of Switzerland Lake Geneva Show map of France Lake Geneva Show map of Alps
Location	Switzerland, France
Coordinates	46°27′N 6°33′E / 46.450°N 6.550°E / 46.450; 6.550
Lake type	Glacial lake
Primary inflows	Rhône, Dranse
Primary outflows	Rhône
Catchment area	7,975 square kilometres (3,079 sq mi)
Basin countries	Switzerland, France
Max. length	73 km (45 mi)
Max. width	14 km (8.7 mi)
Surface area	580.03 km2 (224 sq mi)
Average depth	153.4 metres (503 feet)
Max. depth	310 metres (1,020 feet)
Water volume	89 km3 (72 million acre⋅ft; 21 cu mi)
Residence time	11.4 years
Shore length1	156 km (97 mi)
Surface elevation	372 m (1,220 ft)
Islands	Île de Peilz, Château de Chillon, Île de Salagnon, Île de la Harpe, Île Rousseau, Île de Choisi
Settlements	Geneva (CH), Lausanne (CH), Évian (F), Montreux (CH), Thonon (F), Vevey (CH) (see list)
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Les Grangettes
Designated	11 September 1990
Reference no.	504[1]
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Rives du Lac Léman
Designated	8 April 1991
Reference no.	519[2]
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Lake Geneva^{[note 1]} is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent (345.31 km² or 133.32 sq mi) of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Geneva and Valais) and forty percent (234.71 km² or 90.62 sq mi) to France (the department of Haute-Savoie).

Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).