GeotchaA geography quiz on a real globe
25 largest lakes in the northern 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
- 1Caspian Sea386,400 km²
- 2Lake Superior82,350 km²
- 3Lake Huron59,600 km²
- 4Lake Michigan57,750 km²
- 5Lake Baikal31,722 km²
- 6Great Bear Lake31,153 km²
- 7Great Slave Lake27,209 km²
- 8Lake Erie25,744 km²
- 9Lake Winnipeg24,400 km²
- 10Lake Ontario18,529 km²
- 11Lake Balkhash18,200 km²
- 12Lake Ladoga17,700 km²
- 13Lake Onega9,800 km²
- 14Lake Nicaragua8,264 km²
- 15Lake Athabasca7,850 km²
- 16South Aral Sea7,300 km²
- 17Reindeer Lake6,500 km²
- 18Lake Turkana6,405 km²
- 19Issyk-Kul6,236 km²
- 20Vänern5,650 km²
- 21Lake Albert5,270 km²
- 22Lake Urmia5,200 km²
- 23Lake Winnipegosis5,164 km²
- 24Nettilling Lake5,051 km²
- 25Lake Nipigon4,848 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 northern hemisphere: north of the equator. 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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