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25 best known lakes in Asia

25 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. 4Sea of Galilee
  5. 5Lake Van
  6. 6Lake Balkhash
  7. 7Issyk-Kul
  8. 8Lake Urmia
  9. 9Lake Toba
  10. 10Lake Sevan
  11. 11Qinghai Lake
  12. 12Lake Biwa
  13. 13Poyang Lake
  14. 14Tonle Sap
  15. 15Lake Manasarovar
  16. 16Lake Khövsgöl
  17. 17Lake Khanka
  18. 18Uvs Lake
  19. 19Dongting Lake
  20. 20Lake Tai
  21. 21Lake Tuz
  22. 22Nam Co
  23. 23Lake Taymyr
  24. 24Lake Zaysan
  25. 25Pangong Tso

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. 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 25 best known lakes in Asia, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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