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Tuanjie Lake: Qinghai: 6 Saline Ulungur Lake: Xinjiang: 827 Saline West Lake: Zhejiang: 5.6 Fresh West Dabusun Lake (Xidabuxun) Qinghai: 0–30 Saline Wu Lake: Hubei: 21.2 Fresh Xiaobiele Lake: Qinghai: 6.3 Saline Xiezuo Lake: Qinghai: 17 Saline Xiliang Lake: Hubei: 85.2 Fresh Xingkai Lake: Heilongjiang and Russia (Amur Oblast) 4070 Fresh Ya'er ...
Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China.Located in an endorheic basin in Qinghai Province, to which it gave its name, Qinghai Lake is classified as an alkaline salt lake.The lake has fluctuated in size, shrinking over much of the 20th century but increasing since 2004.
Once the world's third largest lake. 43: Poyang China: Fresh 3,210 km 2 1,240 sq mi 170 km 110 mi 25.1 m 82 ft 25.2 km 3 6.0 cu mi Largest fresh water lake in China. Variable size. Important location for the birdlife. 44: Tana Ethiopia: Fresh 3,200 km 2 1,200 sq mi 84 km 52 mi 15 m 49 ft 25.6 km 3 6.1 cu mi The source of the Blue Nile. 45
Qinghai Lake is the largest salt water lake in China, and the second largest in the world. Other large lakes are Lake Hala in the Qilian mountains, lakes Gyaring and Ngoring in the headwater region of the Yellow River, Lake Donggi Cona, and many saline and salt lakes in the western part of the province.
Poyang Lake, also known by its Chinese name as Poyang Hu, is the largest freshwater lake in China. [4] Located within Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province , it is fed by the Gan , Xin, and Xiu rivers and flows northward into the Yangtze River through a channel.
There are thousands of lakes in the People's Republic of China, including 945 saltwater lakes and 166 salt lakes. [1] Salt lakes and saltwater lakes are listed down there. The Database of Chinese Lakes provided data on China's salt lakes. Changes in water level, environment, and human activities may increase or decrease the size of each lakes ...
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 into three lakes, none of which are large enough to appear on this list.
Covering an area of about 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) (together with adjacent small lakes), it is the largest lake in Xinjiang and one of the largest inland freshwater lakes in China. [1] Bosten lake receives water inflow from a catchment area of 56,000 km 2 (22,000 sq mi). [2] The lake's Mongol, Uyghur and Chinese names are sometimes rendered as ...