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25 largest lakes in Central 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. 1Lake Balkhash18,200 km²
  2. 2South Aral Sea7,300 km²
  3. 3Issyk-Kul6,236 km²
  4. 4Sarygamysh Lake3,955 km²
  5. 5North Aral Sea3,300 km²
  6. 6Aydar Lake3,000 km²
  7. 7Lake Alakol2,650 km²
  8. 8Lake Zaysan1,860 km²
  9. 9Lake Tengiz1,590 km²
  10. 10Siletiteniz777 km²
  11. 11Lake Sasykkol600 km²
  12. 12North Caspian swamp572 km²
  13. 13Lake Marqaköl455 km²
  14. 14Barsakelmes Lake450 km²
  15. 15Shaghalalytengiz Lake267 km²
  16. 16Kushmurun210 km²
  17. 17Teke205 km²
  18. 18Sarykopa184 km²
  19. 19Qyzylqaq Lake181 km²
  20. 20Qarasor Lake158 km²
  21. 21Iken Aqsuat Lake140 km²
  22. 22Zharman Lake137 km²
  23. 23Lake Shalkar104 km²
  24. 24Shreksor Lake98 km²
  25. 25Qalybek Lake96 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. Central Asia: what lies inside the region’s outline, by each item’s point (a lake’s centre, a river’s mouth, a summit).

On the map

Map of 25 largest lakes in Central Asia, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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