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UPPCS World Geography Gap Sheet: Lakes of the World.
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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.
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Record lakes
- Caspian Sea · The largest lake; Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan
- Superior · USA–Canada; largest freshwater lake by area
- Baikal · Siberia; deepest, oldest, most fresh water
- Victoria · Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania; Africa's largest; source of the White Nile
- Tanganyika · East Africa; longest freshwater lake, second deepest
- Titicaca · Peru–Bolivia; the highest navigable lake
- Dead Sea · Israel–Jordan; the lowest point on land
Great Lakes of North America
- Michigan · The only Great Lake wholly in the USA
- Huron, Erie, Ontario · USA–Canada
- Niagara Falls · Between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
- Soo Canal · Joins Lake Superior and Lake Huron
- Great Bear and Great Slave · Canada
Salt and shrinking lakes
- Aral Sea · Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan; shrank after its rivers were used for cotton
- Lake Chad · Africa; has shrunk sharply
- Great Salt Lake · Utah, USA
- Balkhash · Kazakhstan; half fresh, half salt
- Van · Turkey; a soda lake
Other lakes
- Malawi (Nyasa) · Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania; rift valley
- Tana · Ethiopia; source of the Blue Nile
- Maracaibo · Venezuela; oil
- Geneva and Constance · Switzerland–France; Germany–Switzerland–Austria
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Record lakes: 1 · Salt and shrinking lakes: 1 · Other lakes: 1
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⚠️ 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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