The largest lake in Finland and one of the largest in Europe, a complex system of interconnected basins in the country's southeast. It is the last refuge of the critically endangered Saimaa ringed seal, a freshwater seal subspecies found nowhere else.
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With a surface area of approximately 4,279 square kilometres (1,652 sq mi), it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth-largest natural freshwater lake in Europe.
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The lake was formed by glacial melting at the end of the Ice Age.
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