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Albania (Northern Albania) · Montenegro (Central Montenegro)

Lake Skadar

Lake Skadar lies on the border between Montenegro and Albania and is the largest lake in the Balkans. It is a karst lake with a changeable shoreline: its water rises and falls with the seasons over a wide flat plain…

372 square kilometresarea
5 metreselevation
8.3 metresmax. depth
BoatingCampingFishing

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Albania (Northern Albania) · Montenegro (Central Montenegro)

Lake Skadar

Karst, Tectonic · natural

372 square kilometresarea
5 metreselevation
8.3 metresmax. depth
BoatingCampingFishing

Greece (Central Macedonia) · North Macedonia (Southeastern Region)

Lake Dojran

Karst, Tectonic · natural

40 square kilometresarea
144 metreselevation
10 metresmax. depth
CampingSwimming
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Bosnia and Herzegovina · Central Bosnia

Veliko Plivsko jezero

Dam-regulated, Karst · natural, regulated

1.3 square kilometresarea
425 metreselevation
36 metresmax. depth
BoatingCampingFishing

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Herzegovina

Blidinje Lake

Karst · natural

4.75 square kilometresarea
1,179 metreselevation
3 metresmax. depth
Hiking

Croatia · Lika-Karlovac

Gavanovac

Karst · natural

0.01 square kilometresarea
516 metreselevation
10 metresmax. depth