Femunden
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Femunden<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is Norway's third largest lake and the second largest natural lake in Norway. It is located in Innlandet and Trøndelag counties in Norway, just Template:Convert west of the border with Sweden. The lake lies primarily in Engerdal Municipality (in Innlandet) and also smaller parts are located in Os Municipality (Innlandet) and Røros Municipality (Trøndelag). Femundsmarka National Park borders the northeastern part of the lake.<ref name="snl" />
The Template:Convert lake holds about Template:Convert of water and reaches a maximum depth of Template:Convert. The surface of the lake sits about Template:Convert above sea level.
NameEdit
The first element (Fe- or Fem-) has no known meaning, and the last element is the suffix -mund or -und (both are common in Norwegian place names). The final part -en is the definite article in the Norwegian language.<ref name="snl">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
After Sweden had conquered the parishes of Idre and Särna in 1644, the lake Femunden was considered to be part of the border between Norway and Sweden. But this was never officially recognised by the Dano-Norwegian government (since Norway was ruled from Copenhagen in the early modern age), and during border adjustments in 1751 the Femundsmarka area east of the lake was granted to Norway from Sweden.
The new (and current) border from 1751 is quite special: For a length of Template:Convert, it makes a completely straight line between the summits of the Template:Convert tall mountain Våndsjögusten and the Template:Convert tall mountain Østerhogna. Straight-line national borders are very unusual in Scandinavia, except in the very northernmost parts.