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7 World's Largest Lake

1. Caspian Sea
Location: Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran
Area (km ²): 394,299
Length (km): 1199
Maximum depth (m): 946

Caspian Sea or Mazandaran Sea is a landlocked sea between Asia, Azerbaijan, Iran (province of Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan), Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and Europe (Russia), Dagestan, Kalmykia and the Astrakhan Oblast. He is the largest body of water on the mainland, with a surface area of ​​371,000 km ², and therefore has the characteristics possessed by the sea and lakes. He is often classified as the world's largest lake, though he does not contain fresh water but salt water.

2. Superior
Location: United States, Canada
Area (km ²): 82,414
Length (km): 616
Maximum depth (m): 406

Lake Superior is the largest North American Great Lakes that restrict Ontario in Canada, and Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan in the United States. He is the largest freshwater lake in the world in surface area.



3. Victoria
Location: Tanzania, Uganda
Area (km ²): 69,485
Length (km): 322
Maximum depth (m): 82

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe) is the largest lake in Africa, the world's largest tropical lake, and the second largest freshwater lake in surface area of ​​the world after Lake Superior. The lake is located in the highlands in the western Great Rift Valley of Africa and regulated by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.

4. Huron
Location: United States, Canada
Area (km ²): 59,596
Length (km): 397
Maximum depth (m): 229

Salsh Lake Huron is one of the 5 Great Lakes United. Is that the 3rd of the estuary. Such as Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior, the lake is also shared between the United States and Canada.



5. Michigan
Location: United States
Area (km ²): 58,016
Length (km): 517
Maximum depth (m): 281

Lake Michigan is one of the 5 Great Lakes in North America that restrict U.S. states: Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Chicago is the largest city on Lake Michigan.


6. Obstacle
Location: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Area (km ²): 59,596
Length (km): 397
Maximum depth (m): 229

The lake is situated in Central Asia are in northern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the south.



7. Tanganyika
Location: Tanzania, Republic of Congo
Area (km ²): 32,893
Length (km): 676
Maximum depth (m): 1435

This lake is the largest and deepest canyon lake in Africa or the number 2 the deepest in the world and save the largest freshwater reserves in the Western Rift in the Great Rift Valley and is in the region 4 countries namely Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
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