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The Finnish Lakeland

Friday, 20 April 2012 - 01:11 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Finnish Lakeland or Finnish lake district is the largest of the four landscape regions into which the geography of Finland is divided. The hilly, forest-covered landscape of the lake plateau is dominated by drumlins and by long sinuous eskers. Both are glacial remnants after the continental glaciers that scoured and gouged the country’s surface receded about 10,000 years ago.

Lakes occupy about 25 percent of the Lakeland. Much of the territory is forested and has a low population density. The cities in the region are Lappeenranta, Jyväskylä, Mikkeli, Pieksämäki, Joensuu, Savonlinna, Kuopio and Varkaus. Since lakes formed the main transport route in earlier times, urban areas are often located on lakeshore, occasionally even on isthmuses or peninsulas

The largest is Lake Saimaa, which, with a surface area of more than 4400 square kilometres, is the fifth largest lake in Europe. The deepest lake has a depth of only 100 metres; the depth of the average lake is 7 metres. Because they are shallow, these many lakes contain only slightly more water than Finland’s annual rainfall.

The Saimaa Canal connects the Lake Saimaa to the Vyborg Bay of the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea. Another connection to the Baltic Sea is the Vuoksi River, which flows from Saimaa to Lake Ladoga, from where the water subsequently flows through Neva River into the Gulf of Finland, bypassing the Salpausselkä.

Lake Päijänne is the second largest lake in Finland, which drains into the Gulf of Finland via the Kymi River and which is used as a drinking water supply for Helsinki.

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