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Lakes of the World: asked and not asked.
UPSC has asked 11 of these 24. 4 came more than once. 13 have not come yet. Lock the repeated ones first, then read the rest.
First, the concept
The Caspian Sea is the largest lake of all, and salty. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by area; Lake Baikal holds the most fresh water and is the deepest and oldest.
Rift valley lakes are long and deep: Tanganyika, Malawi, Baikal. Lakes in dry basins with no outlet turn salty: the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake.
UPPCS asks the record lakes and the lake–country pair.
🔁 Asked again and again (4)
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Record lakes
✅ Asked once (7)
Record lakes
- Superior · USA–Canada; largest freshwater lake by area
- Victoria · Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania; Africa's largest; source of the White Nile
- Dead Sea · Israel–Jordan; the lowest point on land 2014
Great Lakes of North America
- Huron, Erie, Ontario · USA–Canada
❌ Not asked by UPSC yet (13)
Items marked 'asked in UPPCS' have already come in the UP state exam, so examiners do use them.
Record lakes
- Titicaca · Peru–Bolivia; the highest navigable lake asked in UPPCS
- Ladoga · Russia; Europe's largest lake
Great Lakes of North America
- Michigan · The only Great Lake wholly in the USA asked in UPPCS
- Niagara Falls · Between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario asked in UPPCS
- Soo Canal · Joins Lake Superior and Lake Huron asked in UPPCS
- Great Bear and Great Slave · Canada asked in UPPCS
Salt and shrinking lakes
- Lake Chad · Africa; has shrunk sharply asked in UPPCS
- Great Salt Lake · Utah, USA asked in UPPCS
- Balkhash · Kazakhstan; half fresh, half salt asked in UPPCS
- Van · Turkey; a soda lake asked in UPPCS
- Lake Eyre · Australia; salt lake and the continent's lowest point
Other lakes
- Tana · Ethiopia; source of the Blue Nile asked in UPPCS
- Geneva and Constance · Switzerland–France; Germany–Switzerland–Austria asked in UPPCS
⚠️ Superior is the largest freshwater lake by area, but Baikal holds the most fresh water. Michigan is the only Great Lake wholly in the USA. Lake Victoria feeds the White Nile; Lake Tana the Blue Nile.
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