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25 largest lakes in the eastern hemisphere

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 Sea386,400 km²
2. 2Lake Victoria68,100 km²
3. 3Lake Tanganyika32,900 km²
4. 4Lake Baikal31,722 km²
5. 5Lake Malawi29,600 km²
6. 6Lake Balkhash18,200 km²
7. 7Lake Ladoga17,700 km²
8. 8Lake Onega9,800 km²
9. 9Lake Eyre North8,144 km²
10. 10South Aral Sea7,300 km²
11. 11Lake Turkana6,405 km²
12. 12Issyk-Kul6,236 km²
13. 13Lake Torrens5,700 km²
14. 14Vänern5,650 km²
15. 15Lake Albert5,270 km²
16. 16Lake Urmia5,200 km²
17. 17Lake Mackay4,737 km²
18. 18Lake Mweru4,650 km²
19. 19Lake Taymyr4,560 km²
20. 20Qinghai Lake4,400 km²
21. 21Saimaa4,400 km²
22. 22Lake Gairdner4,350 km²
23. 23Lake Khanka4,190 km²
24. 24Sarygamysh Lake3,955 km²
25. 25Lake Van3,755 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. Lakes in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica. The eastern hemisphere: east of the prime meridian, to 180°. 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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