Lake Narach

Where is Lake Narach?

Countries on its shores: Belarus.

Largest lake of: Belarus.

Middle of the lake: 54.86° N, 26.78° E

The story behind it

Lake Narach covers about 79.6 km² and is up to 24.8 metres deep. It is about 12.8 km long, and tall pine forests grow along its shores. More than 20 kinds of fish live in its fresh water, among them eels, pike and burbot. Mute swans glide across the lake, and ospreys dive down to catch fish. The water leaves the lake through the Narach River, which flows into the Neris, then into the Neman and finally into the Baltic Sea. In 1999 Belarus created Narachanski National Park, which is named after the lake, to protect the lake and the land around it. The resort village of Narach lies close to the water, and many holidaymakers come here. There is even a big children's camp near the lake, called Zubrania.

Find it on the globe

Lake Narach is there as a small blue dot with its name, right on the water. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.