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100 best known lakes in the world

100 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Caspian Sea
  2. 2Lake Baikal
  3. 3Dead Sea
  4. 4Lake Victoria
  5. 5Lake Tanganyika
  6. 6Lake Titicaca
  7. 7Lake Superior
  8. 8Lake Ontario
  9. 9Lake Michigan
  10. 10Lake Malawi
  11. 11Lake Chad
  12. 12Lake Erie
  13. 13Lake Geneva
  14. 14Lake Constance
  15. 15Lake Huron
  16. 16Lake Ladoga
  17. 17Lake Balaton
  18. 18Sea of Galilee
  19. 19Lake Van
  20. 20Lake Balkhash
  21. 21Issyk-Kul
  22. 22Lake Albert
  23. 23Lake Garda
  24. 24Lake Como
  25. 25Lake Turkana
  26. 26Lake Onega
  27. 27Lake Kivu
  28. 28Lake Urmia
  29. 29Loch Ness
  30. 30Vänern
  31. 31Lake Nicaragua
  32. 32Lake Toba
  33. 33Lake Tana
  34. 34Saimaa
  35. 35Lake Sevan
  36. 36Great Slave Lake
  37. 37Lake Edward
  38. 38Lake Winnipeg
  39. 39Great Bear Lake
  40. 40Qinghai Lake
  41. 41Great Salt Lake
  42. 42Lake Mweru
  43. 43Lake Peipus
  44. 44Lake Biwa
  45. 45Poyang Lake
  46. 46Vättern
  47. 47Lake Lugano
  48. 48Mälaren
  49. 49Lake Zurich
  50. 50Neusiedl Lake
  51. 51Tonle Sap
  52. 52Lake Manasarovar
  53. 53Lake Inari
  54. 54Lake Khövsgöl
  55. 55Lake Lucerne
  56. 56Lake Tahoe
  57. 57Lake Trasimeno
  58. 58Lake Khanka
  59. 59Lake Natron
  60. 60Chiemsee

and 40 more, all in the quiz.

How well known each lake is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). A lake known far beyond its country has articles in many languages. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out. Lakes in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica.

On the map

Map of 100 best known lakes in the world, 100 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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