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25 best known lakes in the world

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.

Free to play, with no account needed. What you miss comes back for review until it sticks.

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

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

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