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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Long Lake is the highest, largest and deepest lake in Jiuzhaigou. The Zechawa Gully (则查洼沟, Zécháwā Gōu) is the south-eastern branch of Jiuzhaigou. It is approximately the same length as Rize gully (18 km) but climbs to a higher altitude (3150 m at the Long Lake). Going downhill from its highest point, it features the following sites:
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 ...
This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km 3, ranked by volume. The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. [1] Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration. Lake volumes can also change dramatically over time and during the year, especially for salt lakes in arid climates.