Large Lakes of the World Alphabetical Name List of Large Lakes The 50 Largest Lakes Lakes with large water volume Deep Lakes (including small lakes) Pictures of World Lakes Large Lakes with surface area in excess of 500km2 Click continent name to find information and Google map of lakes. Continent Number of lakes Area 103km2 Countries (number of lakes) ASIA 61 559 China(25), Russia(7),Kazakhstan(7), Mongolia(5),Turkey(4), Iran(3), Afghanistan(2), India(2),....., Japan(1) AFRICA 23 197 Congo(6), Ethiopia(5), Uganda(4), Tanzania(3), Zambia(3), EUROPE 25 61 Russia(11), Finland(5), Sweden(3), Germany(2), Switzerland(2) NORTH AMERICA 122 486 Canada(97), USA(25), Nicaragua(2), Mexico(2) SOUTH AMERICA 14 46 Argentina(8), Chile(4), Bolivia(2), Brazil(2) OCEANIA 8 23 Australia(7), New Zealand(1) TOTAL 253 1,372 fresh(188), brackish(15), salt(50)

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REFERENCES Herdendorf, C.E..(1982):Large lakes of the world, J. Great Lakes Res., 8(3):379-412. Tilzer, M.M. and Serruya, C. (1990): "Large Lakes", Springer-Verlag. pp.691. International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC):World Lakes Database, http://wldb.ilec.or.jp/ World Lakes Network, http://www.worldlakes.org/lakes.asp National Astronomical Observatory, Japan(2007): Chronological Scientific Tables, Maruzen,pp.1022.

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