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1.4% (variable) Balkhash. Kazakhstan. Karaganda Region, Jambyl Region and Almaty Region. 16,400 km 2 (6,300 sq mi) 100 km 3 (24 cu mi) (decreasing) 0.3% (variable) In 1960, the Aral Sea was the world's twelfth-largest known lake by volume, at 1,100 km 3 (260 cu mi). However, by 2007 it had shrunk to 10% of its original volume and was divided ...
Recursive islands and lakes. Aral Sea, formerly the third largest lake in the world, with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi) Lake Chad, formerly the eleventh largest lake in the world, with an area of 26,000 km 2 (10,000 sq mi) Lake Urmia, formerly with an area of 5,200 km 2 (2,000 sq mi), but down to a tenth that size in 2017.
Pangong Tso; Lake Baikal – Lake Baikal is located in Siberia in southeastern Russia, just north of Mongolia. Considered the oldest surviving freshwater lake on the planet, it is also the deepest body of water in Asia at 5,315 feet (1,620 m), and the largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 20% of the planet's fresh water.
List of alpine lakes; List of Antarctic subglacial lakes; List of dams and reservoirs; List of drying lakes; List of international lakes; List of lakes by area; List of lakes by depth; List of lakes by volume; List of lakes; List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System; List of largest lakes of Europe; List of prehistoric lakes; Recursive ...
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, (Swahili: Ziwa Nyasa) is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is the fourth largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, the ninth largest lake in the world by area ...
Collectively, Earth's lakes hold 199,000 km 3 of water. [7] Most lakes are in the high northern latitudes, far from human population centers. [8] [9] The North American Great Lakes, which contain 21% of the world's fresh water by volume, [10] [11] [12] are an exception. The Great Lakes Basin is home to 33 million people. [13]
Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the Earth's crust is slowly pulling apart. [5] At 636 km (395 mi) long and 79 km (49 mi) wide, Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi), and is the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 fathoms).
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Sea, while larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish. Lake Superior deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map.