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25 largest lakes and reservoirs in the US West Coast

25 lakes and reservoirs, 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 and reservoirs

  1. 1Salton Sea888 km²
  2. 2Lake Tahoe502 km²
  3. 3Goose Lake380 km²
  4. 4Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake320 km²
  5. 5Upper Klamath Lake250 km²
  6. 6Malheur Lake201 km²
  7. 7Honey Lake190 km²
  8. 8Mono Lake180 km²
  9. 9Clear Lake177 km²
  10. 10Harney Lake164 km²
  11. 11Lake Abert154 km²
  12. 12Summer Lake153 km²
  13. 13Owyhee Reservoir136 km²
  14. 14Lake Chelan135 km²
  15. 15Shasta Lake135 km²
  16. 16Lake Almanor114 km²
  17. 17Banks Lake109 km²
  18. 18Lake Oroville108 km²
  19. 19Trinity Lake99 km²
  20. 20Eagle Lake97 km²
  21. 21Lake Washington88 km²
  22. 22Lower Klamath Lake87 km²
  23. 23Clear Lake Reservoir80 km²
  24. 24Lake Berryessa78 km²
  25. 25Lake Havasu78 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. Reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) count along with the natural lakes. The US West Coast: California, Oregon and Washington. 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.

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