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by Kim Siever on March 9th, 2004

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What is the largest lake in the world?

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  • by AlwaysHope on November 25th, 2008

    AlwaysHope

    By volume or area, the largest salt water lake is the Caspian Sea. The largest freshwater lake by area is Lake Superior. By volume the largest freshwatre lake is Lake Baikal.

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  • by Kim Siever on March 9th, 2004

    Kim Siever

    Below are the ten largest lakes in the world. They are followed by their country/countries and in parenthesis by their sizes first in square miles and then in square kilometers.

    Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan-Russia-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran (152,239, 394,299)
    Called a sea because the Romans, finding it salty, named it Mare Caspium. Many geographers, however, consider it a lake because it is land-locked.
    Superior, USA-Canada (31,820, 82,414)
    Victoria, Tanzania-Uganda (26,828, 69,485)
    Huron, USA-Canada (23,010, 59,596)
    Michigan, USA (22,400, 58,016)
    Aral, Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan (13,000, 33,800)
    Tanganyika, Tanzania-Congo (12,700, 32,893)
    Baikal, Russia (12,162, 31,500)
    Great Bear, Canada (12,000, 31,080)
    Nyasa, Malawi-Mozambique-Tanzania (11,600, 30,044)

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  • by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on September 25th, 2007

    Highlander is semi-retired from AB

    Lake Superior

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  • by Sweet T on November 25th, 2008

    Sweet T

    A lake any body of water surrounded by land and very large lakes are sometimes called seas.

    The world's largest lake is the salty Caspian Sea at 143,200 square miles, (370,886 km).

    The world's second largest lake, and the world's largest freshwater lake is North America's Lake Superior at 31,700 mi2 (82,103 km)

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  • by Anonymous on September 25th, 2007

    Anonymous

    It's actually Lake Baikal : ) thats if you are counting VOLUME combined with FRESH water. By surface area- but with SALT water - it's the Caspian Sea. Although a 'Sea' it is landlocked so it's classed as a Lake.
    The largest in SURFACE area AND Fresh water is - as my esteemed friend Highlander said - Lake Superior. : )

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  • by Anonymous on September 25th, 2007

    Anonymous

    The Caspian Sea. It's called a sea but it's really a lake, because it's completely surrounded by land.

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  • by Ruby Doomsday on September 25th, 2007

    Ruby Doomsday

    That's kind of a tough question since people seem to be divided as to whether The Caspian Sea is a lake or an actual sea. Being enclosed though, it fits the definition of "lake" better than that of "sea".

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  • by samareene on November 25th, 2008

    samareene

    Michigan-Huron! 117 702Km²

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  • by printz007 on March 10th, 2004

    printz007

    The following is a list of the top 5 largest lakes of the world (in sq miles)
    Caspian Sea (salt water)
    370,992
    Superior
    82,103
    Victoria
    69,464
    Aralb
    64,501
    Huron
    59,600

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  • by Finland on January 13th, 2011

    Finland

    Caspian Sea

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  • by lisa on November 1st, 2007

    lisa

    caspian sea

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  • by MrBLT needs to be contained on November 1st, 2007

    MrBLT needs to be contained

    Lake Baikal in Russia - athough the Caspian sea may be correct

    Yeah - it's the Caspian Sea

    Baikal is the deepest

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  • by CousinVinny on November 25th, 2008

    CousinVinny

    Lake Superior (U.S.-Canada)
    31,700 square miles.

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  • by king jan on October 24th, 2008

    king jan

    the largest lake in the world is the caspian sea
    but lake superior is the largest fresh water lake in the world but second largest in the world.The caspian is a lake despite the fact that it is called a sea.

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  • by answer_ace on January 27th, 2010

    answer_ace

    The largest freshwater lake is the Great lakes which is in Michigan. This lake constitutes to 81% of America's freshwater drinking source and 21% of the world's!

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