10/31/2011

7 The World's Largest Lake

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1. Caspian Sea

Location: Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, IranArea (kmТВ): 394 299Length (miles): 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 the Astrakhan Oblast. He is the largest inland body of water, with a surface area of ​​371 000 kmТВ, and therefore has the characteristics possessed by the sea and lakes. He is often ranked as the world's largest lake, though it does not contain fresh water but salt water. 














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SuperiorLocation: United States, CanadaArea (kmТВ): 82,414Length (km): 616Maximum 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. 
VictoriaLocation: Tanzania, UgandaArea (kmТВ): 69,485Length (km): 322Maximum 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 a plateau in the western Great Rift Valley of Africa and regulated by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. 















4. 
HuronLocation: United States, CanadaArea (kmТВ): 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. 
MichiganLocation: United StatesArea (kmТВ): 58,016Length (km): 517Maximum depth (m): 281
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes in North America that restrict U.S. states: Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Chicago is the largest city on Lake Michigan. 















6. 
AralLocation: Kazakhstan, UzbekistanArea (kmТВ): 59,596Length (km): 397Maximum depth (m): 229
The lake is located in Central Asia are in northern Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the south. 















7. 
TanganyikaLocation: Tanzania, Republic of CongoArea (kmТВ): 32,893Length (km): 676Maximum depth (m): 1435
This lake is the largest and deepest canyon lake in deepest Africa or number two 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, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia,

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