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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. It has since increased in area under a ...
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 more than 35 million people. [13]
List of lakes and lochs of the United Kingdom; List of lakes and reservoirs – Mogollon Rim – Mogollon Plateau; List of lakes in Aust-Agder; List of lakes in Bavaria; List of lakes in Bucharest; List of lakes in Greater Sudbury; List of lakes in Himachal Pradesh; List of lakes in Jyväskylä; List of lakes in Kentucky; List of lakes in Kosovo
Download QR code; Print/export ... Lakes by country (174 C) Rivers by country ... Bodies of water of Greece (10 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Grenada ...
This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered fresh. Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Lists of bodies of water" ... Lake Ifni; List of lakes;
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. An elongated lake, it has a maximum width of 60 miles (97 km) with an approximate length of 389 miles (626 km), and is fed by ...
List of lakes of Pakistan; List of lakes of the State of Palestine; List of lakes of Panama; List of lakes of Papua New Guinea; List of lakes of Peru; List of lakes of the Philippines; List of lakes of Poland; List of lakes of Portugal