The World's Largest Lakes

371,000 Square Kilometers

• The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world,It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers (143,244 sq mi) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers (18,761 cu mi).
• It is bound by northern Iran, southern Russia, western Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and eastern Azerbaijan. It has a maximum depth of about 1,025 meters (3,363 ft).
  

11,610 Square Kilometers

• Lake Michigan-Huron is a traditionally considered to be two separate lakes: Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
• Hydrologically, however, they are a single body of water, connected by the Straits of Mackinac, which are 5 miles wide and 120 feet deep.
• flow between them sometimes reverses from eastward to westward.
  

82,100 Square Kilometers

• Superior Lake is the world's third-largest freshwater lake. It is bounded to the north by Ontario, Canada and Minnesota, United States, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area .

• Superior Lake has a surface area of 31,820 square miles which is larger than South Carolina. It has a maximum length of 350 miles (563 km) and maximum breadth of 160 miles.
  

69,500 Square Kilometers

• It is the worlds largest tropical lake and the second largest freshwater lake. Lake Victoria touches the Equator in its northern side.Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda share Lake Victoria.
• It covers a total area of 68,800 sq. km [km²] and with a maximum depth of 80 m it is relatively shallow. A population of over 30 million people live in its basin
  

33,640 Square Kilometers

• The Aral Sea is an endorheic basin in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south.
• The name roughly translates as "Sea of Islands", referring to more than 1,500 islands of one hectare or more that once dotted its waters.
• The Aral Sea was the world's fourth-largest lake, with an area of approximately 68,000 km2 and a volume of 1100 km³; by 1998, it had dropped to 28,687 km2, and eighth-largest.

32,900 Square Kilometers

• African Great Lake is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia.
• The lake is divided between four countries – Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia.
• The water flows into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.
  
• The lake covers 32,900 km², with a shoreline of 1,828 km and a mean depth of 570 metres (1,900 ft) and a maximum depth of 1,470 metres (4,800 ft) (in the northern basin) it holds an estimated 18,900 km³ (4500 cubic miles).
  

31,128 Square Kilometers

• Lake Baikal is the world's second most voluminous lake, after the Caspian Sea.

• It is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world with an average depth of 744.4 m (2,442 ft) and contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined, a total of roughly 20 percent of the world's surface fresh water.
• Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, the body of water is also known as the "Blue Eye of Siberia".
  

31,128 Square Kilometers

• Great Bear Lake is the largest lake entirely within Canada, the third largest in North America, and the seventh largest in the world.
• The lake is situated on the Arctic Circle between 65 and 67 degrees of northern latitude and between 118 and 123 degrees western longitude, 186 m (610 ft) above sea level.
• The lake has a surface area of 31,153 km² (12,028 mi²) and a total volume of 2,236 km³ (536 mi³). Its maximum depth is 446 m (1,463 ft)

28,880 Square Kilometers

• Lake Malawi is an African Great Lake and the most southerly lake in the East African Rift valley system.
• The lake, third largest in Africa and eighth largest in the world, is situated between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
• The lake's tropical waters teem with more fish species than any other lake on Earth.
• Lake Malawi is between 560and 579 km longand is 75 km wide at its widest point ,its total surface area is approximately 29,600 km².

28,570 Square Kilometers

• Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada and the deepest lake in North America at 614 m, and the ninth-largest lake in the world.

• It is 480 km (300 mi) long and 19 to 109 km (12 to 68 mi) wide. It covers an area of 27,200 km2 (10,502 sq mi) in the southern part of the territory.