Lake Virmajärvi (; ) is a small ( long)

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

straddling the border between

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, ...

(

Ilomantsi Ilomantsi (, ) is municipality and a village of Finland. It is located in the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The easternmost point of Finland ...

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) and Russia (

Suoyarvsky District Suoyarvsky District (; ) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.Constitution of the Republic of Karelia It is located in the west of the republic on the Finnish border. The area of the dist ...

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). It is located east of the village of Hattuvaara. The easternmost point of Finland and of the

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and of the continental European Union is located on an island in the lake.

References

LVirmayarvi Finland–Russia border Virmayarvi Landforms of North Karelia Lakes of Ilomantsi {{RepublicofKarelia-geo-stub Lakes of the Suoyarvsky District