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25 largest lakes in the Middle East

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 Urmia5,200 km²
  3. 3Lake Van3,755 km²
  4. 4Lake Tuz2,075 km²
  5. 5Lake Milh1,501 km²
  6. 6Lake Hammar1,300 km²
  7. 7Lake Beyşehir650 km²
  8. 8Dead Sea605 km²
  9. 9Lake Eğirdir482 km²
  10. 10Lake Akşehir353 km²
  11. 11Lake İznik290 km²
  12. 12Great Bitter Lake250 km²
  13. 13Lake Burdur250 km²
  14. 14Sea of Galilee168 km²
  15. 15Lake Kuş160 km²
  16. 16Lake Uluabat123 km²
  17. 17Lake Çıldır120 km²
  18. 18Suwayqiyah118 km²
  19. 19Lake Erçek106 km²
  20. 20Sabkhat al-Jabbul100 km²
  21. 21Lake Hazar81 km²
  22. 22Lake Bafa63 km²
  23. 23Lake Marmara53 km²
  24. 24Lake Köyceğiz52 km²
  25. 25Lake Salda44 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. The Middle East: 17 countries from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus to Iran and Yemen. 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 largest lakes in the Middle East, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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