List of lakes

This list of lakes includes those which are among the largest by area, depth, volume, or have cultural or environmental significance.

• Lake Albert (Mobuto-Sese-Seko)
• Lake Chad
• Lake Edward
• Lake Fianga
• Lake Kariba
• Lake Kivu
• Lake Tana
• Lake Mweru
• Lake Nasser (Lake Nubia in Sudan)
• Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi)
• Lake Tanganyika
• Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf or Rudolph)
• Lake Victoria shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

• Chott Ech Chergui
• Chott el Hodna
• Lake of Fetzara
• Lake Akfadou
• Lake Menghough
• Réghaïa lake
• Sebkha el Melah
  See also: Category:Lakes of Algeria

• Dilolo Lake

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• Makadikadi Basin
• Lake Ngami

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  Lake Awing

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  Lake Bambili
• Lake Bamendjing
• Lake Bankim

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  Lake Barombi
• Lake Edip
• Lake Kendall
• Lake Lagdo
• Lake Mbakaou

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  Lake Monoun

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  Muanenguba Lakes (Twin Lakes)
• Lake Nyos

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  Lake Oku
• Lake Wum

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• Lake Assal

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• Lake Volta
• Lake Bosomtwe

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• Lake Alaotra
• Lake Bedo
• Lake Itasy
• Lake Ihotry
• Lake Kinkony
• Lake Tritriva
• Lake Tsimanampetsotsa
• Lakes Manambolomaty

• Lake Chilwa
• Lake Malawi

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• Lac de Mâl

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• Cabora Bassa Lake

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• Kainji Lake
• Oguta Lake
• Asejire Lake

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• Roseires Reservoir
• Lake No
• Lake Nubia (southern reaches of Lake Nasser)

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There are hundreds of lakes deep below the ice of Antarctica.^[1]

• Basalt Lake
• Lake Brownworth
• Don Juan Pond
• Parochlus Lake
• Penny Lake
• Lake Pewe
• Lake Vanda
• Lake Vida
• Lake Vostok
• Lake Whillans

• 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. An elongated lake, it has a maximum width of 60 miles (97 km) with an approximate length of 389 miles (626 km), and is fed by more than 300 rivers and streams.^[2]
• Caspian Sea – Situated between Asia and Europe and fed by the Volga and Ural Rivers in the north, the Caspian Sea is nevertheless somewhat salty in its central and south portions. The surface area measures 371,000 square kilometres (143,000 sq mi), with a maximum depth of 1,025 metres (3,363 ft).^[2]

• Aral Sea – Also in far-western Asia, just east of the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea straddles the boundary between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The Aral Sea is shrinking due to evaporation and diversion for irrigation (among other factors) and what remains (only 10% of its former size)^[3] is now almost totally polluted by fertilizer runoff, Soviet weapon testing residue and industrial projects,^[2] leading to it being called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters".^[4]
  • North Aral Sea
  • South Aral Sea

• Dead Sea – Located on the border of Israel and Jordan.

• Lake Khanka

• Gowd-e-Zereh

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• Kaptai Lake

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• Cypt

• Tonlé Sap

• Dongting Lake
• Poyang Lake
• Qinghai Lake
• Lake Tai

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• Avalanche Lake
• Dal Lake
• Emerald Lake
• Chandra Taal
• Nainital Lake
• Sheshnag Lake
• Suraj Tal
• Tso Moriri
• Tsongmo Lake
• Chaluk lake
• Chilka Lake
• Shanti Sagara

• Lake Toba

• Caspian Sea
• Lake Urmia
• Gavkhouni
• Hamun Lake
• Namak Lake
• Bakhtegan Lake
• Maharloo Lake
• Zarivar Lake

• Lake Habbaniyah (Hawr al Habbaniyah)
• Lake Milh (Bahr al Milh)
• Lake Tharthar (Buhayrat ath Tharthar)
• Sawa lake

• Dead Sea
• Sea of Galilee

• Lake Mashū

• Dead Sea

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• Lake Alakol
• Lake Balkhash
• Chagan Lake
• Kaindy Lake
• Lake Sasykkol
• Lake Tengiz
• Lake Zaysan

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• Ala Köl
• Besh-Tash Lake
• Chatyr-Kul
• Issyk-Kul
• Jashyl Köl
• Juukuchak Lake
• Kapka Tash Lake
• Kara-Suu Lake
• Köl-Suu
• Költör Lake
• Kölükök
• Kulun Lake
• Kylaköl
• Ökürgön Lake
• Lake Sary-Chelek
• Merzbacher Lake
• Saryköl
• Song Köl Lake

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• Fewa Lake
• Rara Lake
• Rupa Lake
• Begnas Lake
• Shey phoksundo lake
• Tilicho Lake
• Gosaikunda Lake

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• Attabad Lake
• Ansoo Lake
• Banjosa Lake
• Dudipatsar Lake
• Hanna Lake
• Karambar Lake
• Kundol Lake
• Lulusar Lake
• Mahodand Lake
• Payee Lake
• Pyala Lake
• Shangrila Lake

• Laguna de Bay
• Lake Lanao

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• Lake Baikal

• Al-Asfar Lake
• Sabkhat Matti

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• Lake Assad
• Lake Qattinah
• Lake Al-Rastan
• Lake Muzairib
• Zarzar Lake
• Lake Ballouran

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• Lake Van

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• Dead Sea
• Sea of Galilee

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• Bitan Lake
• Changpi Lake
• Chengcing Lake
• Chiaming Lake
• Cueifong Lake
• Gugang Lake
• Jinshi Lake
• Lantan Lake
• Liyu Lake
• Longtan Lake
• Meihua Lake
• Milk Lake
• Sun Moon Lake
• Zhongzheng Lake

• Lake Constance (Austria, Germany, Switzerland; Bodensee)
• Dojran Lake (North Macedonia and Greece)
• Lake Geneva (France, Switzerland; Lac Léman)
• Lake Lugano (Switzerland, Italy)
• Lake Maggiore (Switzerland, Italy; Lago Maggiore)
• Lake Neusiedl (Neusiedler See)/Fertő (Austria, Hungary)
• Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia, Albania; Liqeni i Ohrit)
• Lake Peipsi-Pihkva (Estonia, Russia)
• Lake Great Prespa (Albania, North Macedonia, Greece)
• Lake Small Prespa (Albania, Greece)
• Lake Skadar (Montenegro, Albania; Liqeni i Shkodrës)
• Lake Vištytis (Lithuania, Russia)
• Lago di Lei (an artificial lake created by a dam; the waters are mostly in Italy but the dam is in Switzerland).

• Lake Ohrid

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• Lake Sevan
• Lake Lessing

• Ahornsee

• Lake Sarysu
• Lake Ağgöl

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• Lake Atanasovsko
• Banderishki Lakes
• Batak Reservoir
• Lake Burgas
• Dospat Reservoir
• Lake Durankulak
• Iskar Reservoir
• Lake Mandrensko
• Lake Pomorie
• Lake Varna
• Seven Rila Lakes
• Lake Srebarna

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• Larnaca Salt Lake
• Limassol Salt Lake

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• Lake Balaton
• Lake Tisza
• Lake Velencei
• Lake Hévíz
• Lake Vadkert

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• Lake Garda

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• Lake Lubāns
• Lake Rāzna
• Lake Engure

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• Lake Śniardwy
• Lake Mamry
• Lake Ruda Woda
• Lake Łebsko
• Lake Dąbie
• Lake Miedwie
• Lake Jeziorak
• Lake Niegocin
• Lake Hańcza

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• Lake Palić
• Perućac Lake
• Vlasina Lake

• Blatné
• Devínske
• Jazero
• Morské oko
• Štrbské pleso
• Zemplínska šírava
• Zlaté Piesky

• Lake Cerknica

• Lake of Banyoles
• El Atazar Dam
• Estanys de Baiau
• Lakes of Covadonga
• Embalse de Navacerrada
• Sanabria Lake Natural Park

• Vänern
• Vättern
• Mälaren
• Hjälmaren
• Storsjön

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Listed in order of occurrence from easternmost border terminus to the westernmost

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• Turtle Lake (Vancouver Island)
• Lake Huron
• Lake Superior
• Great Bear Lake
• Great Slave Lake
• Lake Erie
• Lake Winnipeg
• Lake Ontario
• Lake Athabasca
• Reindeer Lake
• Smallwood Reservoir
• Nettilling Lake
• Lake Winnipegosis
• Lake Nipigon
• Lake Manitoba
• Lake of the Woods
• Caniapiscau Reservoir
• Dubawnt Lake

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• Lago de Coatepeque (Coatepeque Lake)
• Lago De Ilopango (Ilopango Lake)
• Laguna De Güija (Güija Lake)
• Laguna Verde
• Laguna de Alegria
• Olomega Lake
• Suchitlán Lake

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• Lake Atitlan

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• Lake Yojoa

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• Lake Chapala
• Lake Texcoco
• Lake Catemaco
• Lake Patzcuaro
• Lake Cuitzeo
• Lake Zirahuen

• Lake Apanás
• Lake Nicaragua (Lake Cocibolca)
• Lake Managua
• Laguna de Apoyo

• Lago Bayano
• Gatun Lake

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• Crater Lake
• Great Salt Lake
• The Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
• Lake Champlain
• Lake Okeechobee
• Lake Pontchartrain
• Lake Tahoe
• Lake Winnebago

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• Buada Lagoon

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• Lake Titicaca (in Peru and Bolivia)
• General Carrera Lake (in Chile and Argentina)
• O'Higgins/San Martín Lake (in Chile and Argentina)
• Cochrane/Pueyrredón Lake (in Chile and Argentina)
• Cami/Fagnano Lake (in Chile and Argentina)
• Palena/General Vintter Lake (in Chile and Argentina)
• Lake Viedma (undefined border near the Southern Patagonian Ice Field between Chile and Argentina)

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• Lake Titicaca
• Quñuqqucha

• Brokopondo Reservoir

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• Guri (man-made)
• Lake Maracaibo (sometimes considered a sea)
• Lake Valencia

• Lake Agassiz
• Lake Ballivián
• Lake Hula
• Lake Makgadikgadi
• Lop Nur
• Owens Lake
• Tulare Lake

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• List of lakes by area
• List of lakes by depth
• List of lakes by volume
• List of dams and reservoirs
• List of international lakes