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List of lakes, showing country and size, with European ranking Rank Name Native names Country Average area Notes km 2 mi 2; 1 Ladoga: Ла́дожское о́зеро, Laatokka Russia: 17,700 6,800: 14th largest lake in the world 2 Onega: Onego, Онежское озеро, Ääninen, Äänisjärvi Russia: 9,894 3,820: 18th largest lake in the ...
Dymaxion world map with the 15 largest lakes roughly to scale. This is a pair of lists of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi), ranked by area, [1] [2] [3] excluding reservoirs and lagoons. The area of some lakes can vary considerably over time, either seasonally or from year to ...
The deepest area is oceanic rather than continental crust. However, it is generally regarded by geographers as a large endorheic salt lake. Of these registered lakes; 10 have a deepest point above the sea level. These are: Issyk-Kul, Crater Lake, Quesnel, Sarez, Toba, Tahoe, Kivu, Nahuel Huapi, Van and Poso.
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.
Lake Geneva [note 1] is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône.
Lake Constance is located along the Rhine between the Alpine Rhine, its main tributary, and the High Rhine, its outflow. It is the third largest freshwater lake by surface area in Central and Western Europe (and the second largest in volume), after Lake Geneva and (in surface area) Lake Balaton.
The oldest European lake village in the world featured thousands of wooden spikes for defense. Archaeologists Found an Entire Ancient Village—Built on Stilts!—Under a Lake Skip to main content
The western shore of the lake largely follows a fault scarp associated to Vänern-Göta Fault. [ 8 ] The modern lake was formed after the Quaternary glaciation about 10,000 years ago; when the ice melted, the entire width of Sweden was covered in water, creating a strait between Kattegat and the Gulf of Bothnia .