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13 largest lakes in northwest China

13 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. 1Qinghai Lake4,400 km²
  2. 2Bosten Lake1,010 km²
  3. 3Ayakum Lake613 km²
  4. 4Ngoring Lake611 km²
  5. 5Gyaring Lake544 km²
  6. 6Aibi Lake500 km²
  7. 7Aqqikkol Hu348 km²
  8. 8Hoh Xil Hu298 km²
  9. 9Hoh Sai Hu274 km²
  10. 10Huiten Nur256 km²
  11. 11Gas Hure Hu245 km²
  12. 12Elsen Nur207 km²
  13. 13Aksai Chin Lake166 km²

Surface area in km²: the Largest Lakes set’s figure for its lakes, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Seasonal salt pans keep their recorded figure; their area varies. 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. Northwest China: Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Shaanxi. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 13 largest lakes in northwest China, 13 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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