List of lakes

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This is a list of the 600 best-known lakes, ranked by reach: how many Wikipedia languages and sister sites have a page about each one.

#	Name	Area
1	Caspian SeaLargest landlocked salt lake, located between Europe and Asia	386,400 km²
2	Lake BaikalFreshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia; the greatest mountain lake in Asia and the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world	31,722 km²
3	Lake VictoriaLake in east-central Africa	68,100 km²
4	Lake TanganyikaLake between Tanzania, DR Congo, Burundi and Zambia	32,900 km²
5	TiticacaAlpine lake in Peru and Bolivia	8,562 km²
6	Lake SuperiorLargest of the Great Lakes of North America	82,350 km²
7	Lake OntarioOne of the Great Lakes in North America	18,529 km²
8	Lake MalawiAfrican Great Lake	29,600 km²
9	Lake MichiganOne of the Great Lakes of North America	57,750 km²
10	Lake ChadLake in Africa	1,540 km²
11	Lake ErieOne of the Great Lakes in North America	25,744 km²
12	Lake HuronOne of the Great Lakes of North America	59,600 km²
13	Lake LadogaFreshwater lake in Russia and largest lake entirely in Europe	17,700 km²
14	Lake BalatonFreshwater lake in Hungary	592 km²
15	Lake AlbertLake in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5,270 km²
16	Lake BalkhashLake in southeastern Kazakhstan	18,740 km²
17	Issyk-KulLake in Kyrgyzstan	6,236 km²
18	Lake GardaLake in Italy	370 km²
19	Lake OnegaFreshwater lake in Russia, second largest in Europe	9,800 km²
20	Lake KivuMeromictic lake in the East African Rift valley	2,700 km²
21	Lake MaggioreLake in Italy and Switzerland	213 km²
22	Loch NessLake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows via Loch Dochfour to the River Ness and Caledonian Canal	56 km²
23	VänernLake in Sweden	5,650 km²
24	Lake NicaraguaLargest lake in Central America in Nicaragua	8,264 km²
25	Lake TanaLake in Ethiopia	3,600 km²
26	SaimaaThe largest lake in Finland and the fourth largest lake in Europe	4,400 km²
27	Lake SevanLake in Armenia	1,271 km²
28	Lake EdwardLake in Uganda and smallest of the African Great Lakes	2,150 km²
29	Lake WinnipegLake in Manitoba, Canada	24,400 km²
30	Great Bear LakeLarge glacial lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada	31,153 km²
31	Lake MaracaiboLarge lake in Venezuela with an outflow to the Caribbean Sea	13,210 km²
32	Qinghai LakeLake in Qinghai, China	4,400 km²
33	Kati Thanda–Lake EyreEndorheic lake in South Australia	9,300 km²
34	Lake MweruLake between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa	4,650 km²
35	Lake PeipusLake in Estonia and Russia, including Lake Pihkva	3,543 km²
36	Poyang LakeLargest freshwater lake in China, located in Jiangxi Province	5,100 km²
37	VätternSecond largest lake in Sweden	1,893 km²
38	Lake LuganoLake in Switzerland and Italy	49 km²
39	MälarenLake in Sweden	1,072 km²
40	Lake OhridLake in North Macedonia and Albania	349 km²
41	Lake ZurichMajor lake in Switzerland	89 km²
42	Tonle SapLake in Cambodia	2,700 km²
43	Lake ManasarovarFreshwater lake in Purang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China	395 km²
44	Lake InariLake in Inari, Finland	1,082 km²
45	Lake LucerneLake at Lucerne, Switzerland	114 km²
46	Lake PrespaLakes in Southeastern Europe	273 km²
47	Lake TrasimenoLake in Umbria, Italy	128 km²
48	West LakeLake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China	6.5 km²
49	ChiemseeFreshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany	80 km²
50	KhankaFreshwater lake located on the border between Primorsky Krai, Russia and Heilongjiang province, Northeast China	4,190 km²
51	Lake AthabascaLarge glacial lake in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada	7,850 km²
52	Lake NeuchâtelLake in Switzerland	218 km²
53	Lake BledLake in Slovenia	1.5 km²
54	Lake SkadarLake on the border of Albania and Montenegro	530 km²
55	Loch LomondFreshwater lake in Scotland, UK	71 km²
56	Dongting LakeLarge, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan province, China	4,350 km²
57	Poopó LakeSalt lake in Bolivia	1,340 km²
58	Crater LakeCaldera lake in south-central Oregon and main feature of Crater Lake National Park	53 km²
59	IlmenLake in Novgorod Oblast, Russia	982 km²
60	Lough NeaghLarge lake in Northern Ireland	392 km²
61	Lake IseoFourth largest lake in Lombardy, Italy	65 km²
62	Lake TaiLake in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, China	2,250 km²
63	Lake ManaguaLake of Nicaragua	1,042 km²
64	VõrtsjärvLake in Estonia	269 km²
65	Lake NyosCrater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon	1.6 km²
66	Lake StarnbergLake in Bavaria, Germany	56 km²
67	NamtsoLake in Nagqu, Tibet, China	1,920 km²
68	KönigsseeLake in Schönau am Königsee, Bavaria, Germany	5.2 km²
69	Lake ChamplainLake in New York, Vermont and Quebec	1,269 km²
70	Lake ÜlemisteLake in Estonia	9.4 km²
71	Lake ZaysanLake in eastern Kazakhstan	1,860 km²
72	Pangong TsoSoda lake in the Himalayas	690 km²
73	RitsaLake in Georgia	1.5 km²
74	TaymyrLake in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia	4,560 km²
75	Lake BangweuluLake in northern Zambia	9,840 km²
76	MývatnLake	37 km²
77	Sarygamysh LakeSalt lake	3,955 km²
78	TeletskoeLake in Altai Republic, Russia	233 km²
79	Lake BielLake at Biel/Bienne, Canton of Bern, Switzerland	39 km²
80	Lake ChaubunagungamaugLake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, United States	5.8 km²
81	MjøsaLake in Norway	369 km²
82	ŚniardwyLake in Poland	114 km²
83	Argentino LakeGlacial lake in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina	1,415 km²
84	Dal LakeLake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India	20 km²
85	Dojran LakeLake in Greece and North Macedonia	43 km²
86	Lake ThunLake in the canton of Bern, Switzerland	44 km²
87	MüritzLarge lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany	113 km²
88	PäijänneThe deepest and the second largest lake of Finland	1,083 km²
89	Pool MaleboLake on the lower Congo River	400 km²
90	Heaven LakeCrater lake in China/North Korea	9.8 km²
91	HjälmarenLake in central Sweden	483 km²
92	Lake BrienzLake in the Berne Canton, Switzerland	30 km²
93	Lake ChilwaLake in Malawi	1,200 km²
94	Lake Saint ClairLake bordering Ontario, Canada and Michigan, US	1,114 km²
95	Hulun LakeLake in New Barag Left Banner, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China	2,399 km²
96	KarakulLake in Tajikistan	380 km²
97	Lake ManitobaLake in Manitoba, Canada	4,624 km²
98	AmmerseeLake in Upper Bavaria, Germany	47 km²
99	Blue LagoonLake in Iceland
100	Bosten LakeLake	1,010 km²