Lake Iijärvi (Inari)
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Lake Iijärvi (Inari) (, , ) is a medium-sized lake in Lapland in
Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
. It is located in
Kaldoaivi Wilderness Area The Kaldoaivi Wilderness Area () is the largest wilderness reserve in Finland, located in the municipalities of Utsjoki and Inari in Lapland. It was established in 1991 like all the other 11 wilderness areas in Lapland. Its area is . The larg ...
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Näätämö River Neiden (also: , , , and , previously also ) is a village area in the Sápmi (area), Sápmi area along the Finland–Norway border with about 250 inhabitants. Neiden, situated along the Neiden River, actually consists of two villages 12 kilometer ...
(, ) flows from it to
Neiden Fjord Neiden may refer to: *Neiden, Norway, a village in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark county, Norway * Neiden Chapel, a chapel in the village of Neiden, Sør-Varanger, Finnmark county, Norway *''Neidenelva'', the Norwegian name of the Näätämö River that f ...
in
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
.Iijärvi in the Jarviwiki Web Service
Retrieved 2014-03-01.
Quite near is a similar lake Pautujärvi, although it belongs to a different main catchment area, catchment of
Paatsjoki The Paatsjoki River (, , , , , , ''Paz or Patsoyoki'') is a river that flows through Finland, Norway, and Russia. Since 1826, the river has marked parts of the Norway–Russia border, except from 1920 to 1944 when it was along the Finland–N ...
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See also

*
List of lakes in Finland Most lakes in Finland are small, but there are 309 lakes or reservoirs with a surface area larger than 10 km². There are about 5,600 lakes in Finland that are larger than 0.1 km² (10 hectares or 100'000 square metres), and 187,888 lakes ...


References

Näätämö River basin Lakes of Inari, Finland {{LaplandFI-geo-stub