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25 largest lakes in the Near 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. 1Lake Van3,755 km²
  2. 2Lake Tuz2,075 km²
  3. 3Lake Beyşehir650 km²
  4. 4Dead Sea605 km²
  5. 5Lake Eğirdir482 km²
  6. 6Lake Akşehir353 km²
  7. 7Lake İznik290 km²
  8. 8Lake Skadar265 km²
  9. 9Great Bitter Lake250 km²
  10. 10Lake Burdur250 km²
  11. 11Sea of Galilee168 km²
  12. 12Lake Kuş160 km²
  13. 13Lake Uluabat123 km²
  14. 14Lake Çıldır120 km²
  15. 15Lake Erçek106 km²
  16. 16Sabkhat al-Jabbul100 km²
  17. 17Lake Trichonida99 km²
  18. 18Lake Hazar81 km²
  19. 19Limni Vilvi66 km²
  20. 20Lake Bafa63 km²
  21. 21Lake Vegoritida54 km²
  22. 22Lake Marmara53 km²
  23. 23Lake Köyceğiz52 km²
  24. 24Lake Salda44 km²
  25. 25Dojran Lake43 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 Near East: 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 the Near East, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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