5 Largest Lakes In The World

5 Largest Lakes In The World

This is a list of the world’s largest lakes by area (you can also take a look at the world’s deepest lakes):
1. Caspian Sea – 371,000 km² (143,000 sq mi). The Caspian Sea is often regarded as the largest lake in the world, but it contains an oceanic basin rather than being entirely over continental crust. This makes it an oceanic lake and differs it from all the other lakes in this list which are continental lakes. The Caspian Sea is also the world’s third deepest lake. It has no outflows and is bounded by Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

The Caspian Sea – the largest lake in the world

2. Lake Superior – 82,414 km² (31,820 sq mi). Bounded by Canada and the United States, Lake Superior is the largest lake of the five Great Lakes of North America

Largest Lakes In The World: Lake Superior

3. Lake Victoria – 69,485 km² (26,828 sq mi). The largest lake in Africa. It is bounded by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania

Largest Lakes In The World: Lake Superior

4. Lake Huron – 59,600 km² (23,000 sq mi). The second largest lake of the Great lakes. Lake Huron also contains Manitoulin Island, the world’s largest lake island

Largest Lakes In The World: Lake Huron

5. Lake Michigan – 58,000 km² (22,000 sq mi). Also one of the five Great Lakes, Lake Michigan is just slightly smaller than Lake Huron. It is also the world’s largest lake entirely within one country – the United States. Chicago and Milwaukee are located on the shore of Lake Michigan

Chicago and Lake Michigan