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Baikal –
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Deepest Lake
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Tanganyika –
Longest Lake
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1.3) World’s
Highest and
Lowest Lakes
1.4) The
Largest Lakes
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by Continent
1.5) Great
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1.6) Dead Sea

1.7) Aral Sea
1.8) African
Great Lakes
1.9) Largest
Lakes by
Surface Area
1.10) Largest
Lakes by
Volume
1.11) Deepest
Lakes in the
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Note 1: Black Sea is not a lake since Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits

connect it to the Mediterranean Sea. Many big rivers fall into the Black Sea,
making the salinity of its surface water half that of the ocean: 17‰.
Note 2: Caspian Sea and Dead Sea are lakes. The surface and shores of
the Dead Sea are 423 metres below sea level, making it Earth’s lowest
elevation on land.
Note 3: While writing facts about lakes, people ignore Caspian Sea because
for them it is too big to be considered a lake. But it is still a lake.
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Lake Baikal – Deepest Lake

Located in Siberia, Russia.
The deepest lake in the world [1,637

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It is the world’s largest lake by volume.
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Lake Tanganyika – Longest Lake
The longest lake in the world. [660 kilometres long]
It is also the second largest by volume.
It is the second deepest lake in the world, after lake Baikal.
World’s Highest and Lowest Lakes
The world’s highest lake, if size is not a criterion, may be the crater
lake of Ojos del Salado, at 6,390 metres. It is in Andes.
The highest large lake in the world is the Pumoyong Tso

(Pumuoyong Tso), in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. [5,018
metres above sea level]
The world’s highest commercially navigable lake is Lake Titicaca

in Peru and Bolivia border at 3,812 m. It is also the largest lake in
South America.
The world’s lowest lake is the Dead Sea, bordering Israel and Jordan
at 418 metres below sea level. It is also one of the lakes with highest
salt concentration.
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Australia – Lake Eyre (salt lake)
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Africa – Lake Victoria, also the third-largest freshwater lake on

Earth. It is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.
Antarctica – Lake
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Asia – Lake Baikal (if the Caspian Sea is considered a lake, it is the
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Europe – Lake Ladoga, followed by Lake Onega, both located in

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northwestern Russia.
North America – Lake Superior.
South America – Lake Titicaca, which is also the highest navigable

body of water on Earth at 3,812 metres above sea level. The much
larger Lake Maracaibo is a contiguous body of water with the sea, so
it is ignored. ,
Great Lakes
Great Lakes of North America are a series of interconnected

freshwater lakes which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the
Saint Lawrence Seaway.
Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario

[in the order of west to east]. Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and
Ontario [In the order of largest to smallest].
Lake Superior is the largest continental lake in the world by area,

and Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one
country.
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The Great Lakes are today used as a major water transport corridor
for bulk goods.
The Great Lakes Waterway connects all the lakes; the smaller Saint
Lawrence Seaway connects the lakes to the Atlantic oceans.
Dead Sea
Also called the Salt Sea.
Lake bordering Jordan to the east, and Palestine and Israel to the
west.
It Earth’s lowest elevation on land.
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Aral Sea
It was a lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan,

in the south.
Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers
that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
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The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2008 (right)
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Series of lakes constituting the
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They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the
world, and Lake Tanganyika, the world’s second largest in volume as
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1. Lake Superior – North America
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2. Lake Victoria – Africa
3. Lake Huron – North America

4. Lake Michigan – North America
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2. Tanganyika – Africa
3. Superior – North America
Deepest Lakes in the World
1. Lake Baikal – Asia
2. Lake Tanganyika
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1.6) Dead Sea

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Note 1: Black Sea is not a lake since Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits

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The deepest lake in the world [1,637

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The longest lake in the world. [660 kilometres long]

It is also the second largest by volume.

It is the second deepest lake in the world, after lake Baikal.

World’s Highest and Lowest Lakes

The highest large lake in the world is the Pumoyong Tso

The world’s highest commercially navigable lake is Lake Titicaca

Africa – Lake Victoria, also the third-largest freshwater lake on

Europe – Lake Ladoga, followed by Lake Onega, both located in

North America – Lake Superior.

South America – Lake Titicaca, which is also the highest navigable

Great Lakes of North America are a series of interconnected

Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario

Lake Superior is the largest continental lake in the world by area,

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Also called the Salt Sea.

It Earth’s lowest elevation on land.

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It was a lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan,

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Largest Lakes by Surface Area x

3. Lake Huron – North America

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3. Superior – North America

Deepest Lakes in the World

1. Lake Baikal – Asia

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