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Lake Prespa

lakes in Southeastern Europe
LakeBodyOfWater lake Q204392

Facts

16 properties

Designation

Instance of
lake
Heritage designation
Ramsar site[12]

Location

Country
North Macedonia, Albania, Greece[5][6][7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.900°, 21.050°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Prespes Municipality, Pustec Municipality, Resen Municipality[2][3][4]

Period and style

Inception
2000[10]
More facts +10
Area
+273[18]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11]
Elevation above sea level
+853[17]
Has part(s)
Great Prespa, Small Prespa lake[8][9]
Length
+34[16]
Located in protected area
Albanian Prespa Lakes[21]
Native label
Liqeni i Prespës, Λίμνες Πρέσπες, Преспанско Езеро[13][14][15]
Perimeter
+107[20]
Vertical depth
+54[22]
Width
+10[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lake Prespa en Prespa lakes ar بحيرة بريسبا cs Prespanské jezero da Prespasøen da Prespa-søen de Prespasee de Großer Prespasee el Πρέσπες el Βρυγηίδες el Λίμνες Πρέσπες es Lago Prespa fa دریاچه پرسپا fi Megáli Préspa fr lac Prespa he אגם פרספה hu Preszpa-tó id Danau Prespa it Lago di Prespa ja プレスパ湖
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
239622119
GND ID
4359193-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Lake Prespa Albania.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Lake-Prespa
Freebase ID
/m/05x595
GNS Unique Feature ID
-93070
GeoNames ID
786766
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7015656
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
prespa
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0052684
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Prespasjøen
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3176315, 5661933
Show all 24 identifiers +12
Grove Art Online ID
T069509
Hikr waypoint ID
69969
Lex ID
Prespasøen
Macedonian cadastral municipality ID
23100
NL CR AUT ID
ge759844
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3962118
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2905510
Ramsar Sites Information Service ID
726
Topic's main category
Category:Lake Prespa
Wiki Loves Monuments ID
GR-C63-0032
WikiKids ID
Prespameer
Yale LUX ID
place/2fec7a16-42fa-4cb3-9000-04c9df05a562

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🔗 Connections
Country 3
Albania, Greece, North Macedonia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Resen Municipality, Prespes Municipality, Pustec Municipality
← Located in or next to body of water 2
Golem Grad, Maligrad
Has part(s) 1
Small Prespa lake
Has these parts 1
Small Prespa lake
Heritage designation 1
Ramsar site
Instance of 1
lake
Named after 1
Spongilla prespensis
← Endemic to 1
Spongilla prespensis
← FactGrid item ID 1
Gifford
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
Brajčino River
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Summary

Lake Prespa is a lake[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Lake Prespa include Spongilla prespensis[23], a taxon[24].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Spongilla prespensis[23], a taxon[24].

Related Entities

Albania Greece North Macedonia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26w ago · Ceaseless Watcher · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 40.9, 'lon': 21.05}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Prespes Municipality, Pustec Municipality, Resen Municipality
    Located in protected area → Albanian Prespa Lakes
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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