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Lakes in the tropics among the world’s 100 largest

21 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 Victoria68,100 km²
2. 2Lake Tanganyika32,900 km²
3. 3Lake Malawi29,600 km²
4. 4Lake Titicaca8,372 km²
5. 5Lake Nicaragua8,264 km²
6. 6Lake Turkana6,405 km²
7. 7Lake Albert5,270 km²
8. 8Lake Mackay4,737 km²
9. 9Lake Mweru4,650 km²
10. 10Lake Tana3,600 km²
11. 11Lake Bangweulu2,700 km²
12. 12Lake Kivu2,700 km²
13. 13Tonle Sap2,700 km²
14. 14Lake Rukwa2,600 km²
15. 15Lake Mai-Ndombe2,300 km²
16. 16Lake Edward2,150 km²
17. 17Lake Kyoga1,720 km²
18. 18Lake Chad1,540 km²
19. 19Kumpupintil Lake1,500 km²
20. 20Lake Mweru Wantipa1,500 km²
21. 21Poopó Lake1,340 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 tropics: between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.44° N to 23.44° S). 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. Ranked in the world first: the 100 largest lakes of the world, and of those the ones in the tropics.

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