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Lake Van: salt lake: Turkey [34] 1.40 Qinghai Lake: salt lake China [35] 1.25: Caspian Sea: salt lake: Eastern Europe/ Western Asia [36] 1.14: Sarygamysh Lake: salt lake: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan [37] 1.00–1.20: Sea of Azov: mediterranean sea: Ukraine, Russia [38] [39] 0.8–1.0: Baltic Sea: marginal sea: Northern Europe [40] [n 2] 0.59 ...
Large lakes near Lake Van are Lake Erçek (16km), Lake Turna (23km), Lake Nemrut (12km), Lake Nazik (16km), Lake Batmış (10km), Lake Aygır (5km) and Lake Süphan (18km). Lake Erçek is by far the biggest, with an area of 106.2 square kilometres (41.0 sq mi), [ 35 ] and is the second biggest Van Province .
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Lake Michigan is the largest lake, by surface area, that is entirely within one country, the United States. The Great Lakes began to form at the end of the Last Glacial Period around 14,000 years ago, as retreating ice sheets exposed the basins they had carved into the land, which then filled with meltwater.
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The reservoir was created by the damming of the Red River of the South, which (along with several of its tributaries) receives large amounts of salt from natural seepage from buried deposits in the upstream region. The salinity is high enough that striped bass, a fish normally found only in salt water, has self-sustaining populations in the lake.
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English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.