Top 10 Largest Lakes In the World 2021
A lake is an area that is bigger than that of a pond and it is filled with water. It is generally localized in a basin and surrounded by landmass. Sometimes, a river serves the lake as a source of water. Also, rainfall and melting ice supply water to the lakes.
The area of the lakes varies over time due to several factors. The area of the world’s largest lakes fluctuates due to environmental changes from year to year. Also human activity can turn a massive body of water into a desert within a single generation.
No matter who you are or where you're from, odds are that you enjoy spending time at a beautiful lake. The largest lakes in the world aren’t only known for their enormous size. These lakes are more often visited for their rich flora and fauna, the outdoor activities and tours. These landlocked bodies of water are perfect for outdoor recreation and they truly come in almost all shapes and sizes. Largest lakes of world have many famous beaches of world.
According to satellite data, there are roughly 100 million lakes larger than one hectare covering about 4% of the Earth's surface. The largest lakes, which are the size of entire nations.
Canada has the most lakes of any country, but we know very little. This country has over 2 million lakes.
There are countless lakes around the world. They can be found atop mountains, at sea level and everywhere in between.
The area of the lakes varies over time due to several factors. The area of the world’s largest lakes fluctuates due to environmental changes from year to year. Also human activity can turn a massive body of water into a desert within a single generation.
No matter who you are or where you're from, odds are that you enjoy spending time at a beautiful lake. The largest lakes in the world aren’t only known for their enormous size. These lakes are more often visited for their rich flora and fauna, the outdoor activities and tours. These landlocked bodies of water are perfect for outdoor recreation and they truly come in almost all shapes and sizes. Largest lakes of world have many famous beaches of world.
According to satellite data, there are roughly 100 million lakes larger than one hectare covering about 4% of the Earth's surface. The largest lakes, which are the size of entire nations.
Canada has the most lakes of any country, but we know very little. This country has over 2 million lakes.
There are countless lakes around the world. They can be found atop mountains, at sea level and everywhere in between.
Scroll through to see all Top 10 Largest Lakes In the World 2021.
10. Great Slave Lake :-
Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Canada after Great Bear Lake, the deepest lake in North America at 614 m and the tenth-largest lake in the world. It is 469 km long and 20 to 203 km wide. It encloses an area of 27,200 km2 in the southern part of the territory. Its given volume ranges from 1,070 km³ to 1,580 km³ and up to 2,088 km³ making it the 10th or 12th largest by volume.
Great Slave Lake has one ice road known as the Dettah ice road. It is a 6.5 km road that connects the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife to Dettah,
Rivers that flow into Great Slave Lake include Emile River, Snare River.
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Gr.eat Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system. It is located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
It is the fifth largest fresh water lake in the world by volume, the ninth largest lake in the world by area—and the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa.
Lake Malawi is between 560 kilometres and 580 Km long, and about 75 Km wide at its widest point. The lake has a total surface area of about 29,600
km². The lake is 706 m at its deepest point,
The lake has shorelines on western Mozambique, eastern Malawi, and southern Tanzania. The largest river flowing into it is the Ruhuhu River,
The outflows from Lake Malawi into the Shire River
Malawi or Nyasa is home to various Wildlife found in and around Lake
includes Nile crocodiles, hippopotamus, monkeys, and African fish eagles.
Lake Malawi is home to more species of fish than any other lake, including at least 700 species of cichlids.
Great Bear Lake is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada. It is the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world with the surface area of 31,153 km² and a volume of 2,236 km³.
Its maximum depth is 446 m and average depth 71.7 m. The shoreline is 2,719 km. Great Bear Lake is covered with ice from late November to July.
Rivers flowing into Great Bear Lake include the Whitefish River, Big Spruce River, Haldane River, Bloody River, Sloan River, Dease River and the Johnny Hoe River.
Lake Baikal is a lake located in southern Siberia, Russia. It is bounded by Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. With 23,615.39 km³ of fresh water. It contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m. Baikal is the world's deepest lake. It is among the world's clearest lakes and is the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years. It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
It is 636 km long and 79 km wide. Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km². And is the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 m. The bottom of the lake is 1,186.5 m below sea level.
Lake Baikal is rich in biodiversity. It is home to 1,000 species of plants and 2,500 species of animals, of which
More than 80% of the animals are endemic.
A wide range of land mammals also found in the habitats around the lake, such as Eurasian brown bear, Eurasian wolf, red fox, sable, stoat, elk, Siberian red deer, reindeer, Siberian roe deer, Siberian musk deer, wild boar.
There are 236 species of birds that inhabit Lake Baikal.
Fewer than 65 native fish species exist in the lake basin, but more than half of these are endemic.
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. The lake is divided between four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Zambia, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It drains into the Congo River system and which drains into the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the deepest lake in Africa and holds the greatest volume of fresh water, accounting for 16% of the world's available fresh water. It spans for 676 km in a general north-south direction and 50 km in width. The lake covers 32,900 km², with a shoreline of 1,828 km, a mean depth of 570 m and a maximum depth of 1,471 m. It holds an estimated 18,900 km³ water.
Lake Tanganyika are home to Nile crocodiles. Storm's water cobra, a threatened subspecies is only found in Lake Tanganyika.
The lake holds at least 250 species of cichlid fish.
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes with volume of 4,900 km³, and the third-largest with surface area of 58,030 km², after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is connected with that of Lake Huron through the narrow Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its easterly counterpart; the two are technically a single lake.
Lake Michigan is the largest lake by area in one country. It is Located in the United States, it is shared, from west
by the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and
to east by Michigan.
It is 494 km long by 190 km wide with a shoreline 2,640 km long. The lake's average depth is 279 ft, while its greatest depth is 923 ft. It encloses a volume of 4,918 km³ of water.
Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It comprises the easterly portion of Lake Michigan–Huron, having the same surface elevation as its westerly counterpart, to which it is connected by the 8.0 km, 120 ft Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded by the Canadian province of Ontario on the north and east
and by the U.S. state of Michigan on the south and west.
The name of the lake is originated from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region. The northern parts of the lake include the North Channel and Georgian Bay. The main inlet is the St. Marys River, and the main outlet is the St. Clair River.
Lake Huron has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands.
By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 59,590 km² – of which 23,580 km² lies in Michigan; and 36,010 km² lies in Ontario – making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth. In terms of volume however, Lake Huron is only the third largest of the Great Lakes.
The surface of Lake Huron is 577 feet above sea level. The lake's average depth is 195 ft, while the maximum depth is 750 ft. It has a length of 332 km and breadth of 295 km.
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was renamed after Queen Victoria in the reports of the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to report it.
With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km², Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km³ of water. The lake has a maximum depth of between 80 and 84 m and an average depth of 40 m. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 km. The lake's area is distributed among three countries: Kenya occupies 6%, Uganda 45%, and Tanzania 49%.
Lake Victoria receives 80 percent of its water from direct rainfall. Lake Victoria also receives its water additionally from rivers, and thousands of small streams. The Kagera River is the largest river flowing into this lake. Lake Victoria is drained by the Nile River near Jinja, Uganda.
Many mammal species live in the region of Lake Victoria. Among these are the hippopotamus, African clawless otter, spotted-necked otter, marsh mongoose, sitatunga, bohor reedbuck, defassa waterbuck, cane rats, and giant otter shrew. Lake Victoria and its wetlands has a large population of Nile crocodiles, as well as African helmeted turtles, variable mud turtles, and Williams' mud turtle.
Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America, and among freshwater lakes, it is the world's largest by surface area and the third-largest by volume. It is bounded by Ontario, Canada to the north, and Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south.
The largest island in Lake Superior is Isle Royale in Michigan. Isle Royale contains several lakes, some of which also contain islands.
Lake Superior empties into Lake Huron via the St. Marys River and the Soo Locks. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world in area and the third largest in volume.
Lake Superior has a surface area of 82,103 km². It has a maximum length of 560 km and maximum breadth of 257 km. Its average depth is 483 ft with a maximum depth of 1,333 ft 406 m. Lake Superior contains 12,100 km³ of water. The shoreline of the lake stretches 4,387 km.
Lake Superior is supported by more than 200 rivers, including the Nipigon River, the St. Louis River,
More than 80 species of fish have been found in Lake Superior. Species native to the lake include: banded killifish, bloater, brook trout, burbot, cisco, lake sturgeon, lake trout, lake whitefish,
many fish species have been either intentionally or accidentally introduced to Lake Superior.
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest lake. It is located between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia. It covers 371,000 km² and a volume of 78,200 km³. It is bounded by Kazakhstan from mid-north to mid-east, Russia from mid-north to mid-west, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south and Turkmenistan along southern parts of its eastern coast.
The sea stretches nearly 1,200 kilometres from north to south, with an average width of 320 km. Its gross coverage is 386,400 km² and the surface is about 27 m below sea level. Its main freshwater inflow is the Europe's longest river, the Volga, enters at the north end. Two deep basins form its central and southern zones. These lead to horizontal differences in temperature, salinity, and ecology.
The Caspian Sea is home to a wide range of species and may be best known for its oil industries. Pollution from the oil industry have harmed its ecology.
Great Slave Lake has one ice road known as the Dettah ice road. It is a 6.5 km road that connects the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife to Dettah,
Rivers that flow into Great Slave Lake include Emile River, Snare River.
9. Malawi :-
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Gr.eat Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system. It is located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
It is the fifth largest fresh water lake in the world by volume, the ninth largest lake in the world by area—and the third largest and second deepest lake in Africa.
Lake Malawi is between 560 kilometres and 580 Km long, and about 75 Km wide at its widest point. The lake has a total surface area of about 29,600
km². The lake is 706 m at its deepest point,
The lake has shorelines on western Mozambique, eastern Malawi, and southern Tanzania. The largest river flowing into it is the Ruhuhu River,
The outflows from Lake Malawi into the Shire River
Malawi or Nyasa is home to various Wildlife found in and around Lake
includes Nile crocodiles, hippopotamus, monkeys, and African fish eagles.
Lake Malawi is home to more species of fish than any other lake, including at least 700 species of cichlids.
8. Great Bear Lake :-
Great Bear Lake is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada. It is the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world with the surface area of 31,153 km² and a volume of 2,236 km³.
Its maximum depth is 446 m and average depth 71.7 m. The shoreline is 2,719 km. Great Bear Lake is covered with ice from late November to July.
Rivers flowing into Great Bear Lake include the Whitefish River, Big Spruce River, Haldane River, Bloody River, Sloan River, Dease River and the Johnny Hoe River.
7. Baikal :-
Lake Baikal is a lake located in southern Siberia, Russia. It is bounded by Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. With 23,615.39 km³ of fresh water. It contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m. Baikal is the world's deepest lake. It is among the world's clearest lakes and is the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years. It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
It is 636 km long and 79 km wide. Lake Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia, at 31,722 km². And is the deepest lake in the world at 1,642 m. The bottom of the lake is 1,186.5 m below sea level.
Lake Baikal is rich in biodiversity. It is home to 1,000 species of plants and 2,500 species of animals, of which
More than 80% of the animals are endemic.
A wide range of land mammals also found in the habitats around the lake, such as Eurasian brown bear, Eurasian wolf, red fox, sable, stoat, elk, Siberian red deer, reindeer, Siberian roe deer, Siberian musk deer, wild boar.
There are 236 species of birds that inhabit Lake Baikal.
Fewer than 65 native fish species exist in the lake basin, but more than half of these are endemic.
6. Tanganyika :-
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. The lake is divided between four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Zambia, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It drains into the Congo River system and which drains into the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the deepest lake in Africa and holds the greatest volume of fresh water, accounting for 16% of the world's available fresh water. It spans for 676 km in a general north-south direction and 50 km in width. The lake covers 32,900 km², with a shoreline of 1,828 km, a mean depth of 570 m and a maximum depth of 1,471 m. It holds an estimated 18,900 km³ water.
Lake Tanganyika are home to Nile crocodiles. Storm's water cobra, a threatened subspecies is only found in Lake Tanganyika.
The lake holds at least 250 species of cichlid fish.
5. Michigan :-
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes with volume of 4,900 km³, and the third-largest with surface area of 58,030 km², after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is connected with that of Lake Huron through the narrow Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its easterly counterpart; the two are technically a single lake.
Lake Michigan is the largest lake by area in one country. It is Located in the United States, it is shared, from west
by the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and
to east by Michigan.
It is 494 km long by 190 km wide with a shoreline 2,640 km long. The lake's average depth is 279 ft, while its greatest depth is 923 ft. It encloses a volume of 4,918 km³ of water.
4. Huron :-
and by the U.S. state of Michigan on the south and west.
The name of the lake is originated from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region. The northern parts of the lake include the North Channel and Georgian Bay. The main inlet is the St. Marys River, and the main outlet is the St. Clair River.
Lake Huron has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands.
By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 59,590 km² – of which 23,580 km² lies in Michigan; and 36,010 km² lies in Ontario – making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth. In terms of volume however, Lake Huron is only the third largest of the Great Lakes.
The surface of Lake Huron is 577 feet above sea level. The lake's average depth is 195 ft, while the maximum depth is 750 ft. It has a length of 332 km and breadth of 295 km.
3. Victoria :-
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was renamed after Queen Victoria in the reports of the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to report it.
With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km², Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km³ of water. The lake has a maximum depth of between 80 and 84 m and an average depth of 40 m. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 km. The lake's area is distributed among three countries: Kenya occupies 6%, Uganda 45%, and Tanzania 49%.
Lake Victoria receives 80 percent of its water from direct rainfall. Lake Victoria also receives its water additionally from rivers, and thousands of small streams. The Kagera River is the largest river flowing into this lake. Lake Victoria is drained by the Nile River near Jinja, Uganda.
Many mammal species live in the region of Lake Victoria. Among these are the hippopotamus, African clawless otter, spotted-necked otter, marsh mongoose, sitatunga, bohor reedbuck, defassa waterbuck, cane rats, and giant otter shrew. Lake Victoria and its wetlands has a large population of Nile crocodiles, as well as African helmeted turtles, variable mud turtles, and Williams' mud turtle.
2. Superior :-
Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America, and among freshwater lakes, it is the world's largest by surface area and the third-largest by volume. It is bounded by Ontario, Canada to the north, and Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south.
The largest island in Lake Superior is Isle Royale in Michigan. Isle Royale contains several lakes, some of which also contain islands.
Lake Superior empties into Lake Huron via the St. Marys River and the Soo Locks. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world in area and the third largest in volume.
Lake Superior has a surface area of 82,103 km². It has a maximum length of 560 km and maximum breadth of 257 km. Its average depth is 483 ft with a maximum depth of 1,333 ft 406 m. Lake Superior contains 12,100 km³ of water. The shoreline of the lake stretches 4,387 km.
Lake Superior is supported by more than 200 rivers, including the Nipigon River, the St. Louis River,
More than 80 species of fish have been found in Lake Superior. Species native to the lake include: banded killifish, bloater, brook trout, burbot, cisco, lake sturgeon, lake trout, lake whitefish,
many fish species have been either intentionally or accidentally introduced to Lake Superior.
1. Caspian Sea :-
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest lake. It is located between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia. It covers 371,000 km² and a volume of 78,200 km³. It is bounded by Kazakhstan from mid-north to mid-east, Russia from mid-north to mid-west, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south and Turkmenistan along southern parts of its eastern coast.
The sea stretches nearly 1,200 kilometres from north to south, with an average width of 320 km. Its gross coverage is 386,400 km² and the surface is about 27 m below sea level. Its main freshwater inflow is the Europe's longest river, the Volga, enters at the north end. Two deep basins form its central and southern zones. These lead to horizontal differences in temperature, salinity, and ecology.
The Caspian Sea is home to a wide range of species and may be best known for its oil industries. Pollution from the oil industry have harmed its ecology.
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