Monday, January 2, 2012

10 World's Largest Lake


1. Caspian Sea

 Location: Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, IranArea (km ²): 394 299Length (km): 1199Maximum 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 Astrakhan Oblast. He is the largest inland body of water, with a surface area of ​​371,000 km ², and therefore has the characteristics possessed by the sea and lakes. He is often ranked as the world's largest lake.
 
2. Superior
 Location: United States, CanadaArea (km ²): 82 414Length (km): 616Maximum depth (m): 406
Lake Superior is the largest North American Great Lakes are limiting Ontario in Canada, and Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan in the United States. He is the largest freshwater lake in the world in a wide permukaan.3.  


3. Victoria
 Location: Tanzania, UgandaArea (km ²): 69 485Length (km): 322Maximum depth (m): 82
Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza (also known as Ukerewe) is the largest lake in Africa, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest freshwater lake in surface area of ​​the world after Lake Superior. The lake is located in a plateau in the western Great Rift Valley of Africa and arranged by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.
4. Huron

 Location: United States, CanadaArea (km ²): 59 596Length (km): 397Maximum depth (m): 229
Salsh Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes United. Is that all three 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 StatesArea (km ²): 58 016Length (km): 517Maximum depth (m): 281
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes in North America that limits the states of the United States: Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Chicago is the largest city on Lake Michigan.


6. Aral

 Location: Kazakhstan, UzbekistanArea (km ²): 59 596Length (km): 397Maximum depth (m): 229
The lake is located in Central Asia are in northern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.


7. Tanganyika
 Location: Tanzania, Republic of CongoArea (km ²): 32 893Length (km): 676Maximum depth (m): 1435
This lake is the largest and deepest canyon lake in deepest Africa or number 2 in the world and save the largest freshwater reserves in the Western Rift in the Great Rift Valley and is in the area of ​​four countries, namely Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia, 


8 .Baikal
 Location: RussiaArea (km ²): 31 500Length (km): 636Maximum depth (m): 1741
Lake Baikal or also known as Blue Eye of Siberia and the Holy Sea is the deepest and oldest lake in the world and the most (in content) bargaining water on Earth. This lake contains more than 20% of the world's fresh water and more than 90% of freshwater Russia.


9. Great Bear
 Location: CanadaArea (km ²): 31 080Length (km): 373Maximum depth (m): 820

10. Nyasa
 Location: Malawi, Mozambique, TanzaniaArea (km ²): 30 044Length (km): 579Maximum depth (m): 706.

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