Hjälmaren: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Fourth largest lake in Sweden}}

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Hjälmaren is 63 kilometres long, about 20 kilometres wide, and has an average depth of 6 metres, and a surface of 483 km². The largest towns around the lake is [[Örebro]] and [[Eskilstuna]] situated at the western and eastern ends of the lake.

 

Between 1878 and 1887, a damming project lowered the surface level of Hjälmaren {{Convert|1.3|m|ft}} to free up land for agriculture and to reduce the risk of flooding.

 

==References==

{{commons category|Hjälmaren}}

 

{{Large lakes of Sweden}}

 

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