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  2. List of lakes - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of lakes by area - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Lists of lakes - Wikipedia

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    List of lakes of West Virginia; List of lakes of Wisconsin; List of lakes of Wyoming; See also. Lakes portal This page was last edited on 8 August 2024, at ...

  5. The Most Beautiful Lakes in the World - AOL

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    2. Gurudongmar Lake, India. Located at nearly 18,000 feet above sea level—making this one of the highest lakes in the world—this beautiful alpine lake remains frozen for over six months out of ...

  6. List of international lakes - Wikipedia

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    Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique) Malawi/ Mozambique/ Tanzania: Lake Mweru Democratic Republic of the Congo/ Zambia: Lake Nasser (Arabic: بحيرة ناصر Boħēret Nāṣer; Sudanese: Lake Nubia) Egypt/ Sudan: Lake Rweru Burundi/ Rwanda: Lake Sélingué (artificial lake) Mali/ Guinea: Lake Tanganyika

  7. Ancient lake - Wikipedia

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    Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan is one of the oldest lakes in the world. An ancient lake is a lake that has consistently carried water for more than one million years. Twelve of the 20 ancient lakes have existed for more than 2.6 million years, the full Quaternary period. Ancient lakes continue to persist due to plate tectonics in an active rift zone ...

  8. List of lakes by depth - Wikipedia

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    The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths). Of the 127 registered lakes; 67 are known to be cryptodepressions.

  9. List of waterways - Wikipedia

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    Total length of waterways per country in kilometers. This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries, lakes, or firths.In practice, and depending on the language, the term "waterway" covers maritime or inland transport routes, as suggested by "way".