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Lake Name | Shoreline length in miles | Lake Description |
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Lake of the Woods
(Manitoba, Canada / Ontario, Canada / Minnesota, USA) |
25,000 |
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Great Salt Lake
(Utah, USA) |
10,000 |
![]() Sometimes called "America's Dead Sea," the Great Salt Lake occupies approximately 1,700 square miles of Utah's real estate. It is the second largest lake (by surface area) that is wholly contained within the USA; only Lake Michigan is larger. Great Salt Lake boasts the USA's longest lake shoreline - ... |
Lake Saimaa
(Finland) |
8,500 |
![]() ![]() Lake Saimaa, in Finland's Lakeland Region, is a lake you could spend a lifetime exploring! Nearly 1700 square miles of water and over 13,500 islands make the Saimaa Lake District one of Finland's most striking water bodies. Created by the last receding glacier, the inter-connected lake basins cover ... |
Lake Nasser
(Egypt) |
5,592 |
![]() ![]() Lake Nasser, in Egypt's Upper Region, is a modern technological marvel with ancient roots. In Egypt's extremely arid climate, the Nile and its annual floods have provided fertile sediments since before the time of recorded history. Attempts to dam the Nile have been on-going since at least the year ... |
Lake Michigan-Huron
(Ontario, Canada / Great Lakes / Illinois, USA / Indiana, USA / Michigan, USA / Wisconsin, USA) |
5,463 |
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Lake Huron
(Ontario, Canada / Great Lakes / Michigan, USA) |
3,825 |
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Bratsk Reservoir
(Eastern Siberia, Russia) |
3,728 |
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Gouin Reservoir
(Quebec, Canada) |
3,510 |
![]() ![]() When the directions say 'turn off the paved road', you know you're on your way to Gouin Reservoir. Visitors can drive to the lake, but most opt to fly. Although leisurely driving along gravel roads through forests teeming with wildlife is attractive, most visitors are anxious to arrive at the massive ... |
Caspian Sea
(Azerbaijan / Iran / Kazakhstan / Northern Caucases, Russia / Povolzhsky, Russia / Turkmenistan) |
3,467 |
![]() ![]() With the largest volume of any saltwater "lake" on earth, the Caspian Sea holds well over 62 billion acre-feet of saltwater. Many classify the Caspian Sea not as a lake, but as an inland sea. (There is no widely accepted definition of "lake," but most exclude bodies of saltwater.) Considered by many ... |
Caniapiscau Reservoir
(Quebec, Canada) |
3,010 |
![]() "The money is not as useful as the land was before we lost it." -Chisasibi Cree Native About 9,000 years ago, the glaciers receded on the Laurentian Plateau of the Canadian Shield, leaving pockets of lakes in their wake. The rivers were fast and ran with snowmelt, and lakes covered the landscape. ... |
Lake Volta
(Ghana) |
2,983 |
![]() ![]() Lake Volta, the world's fourth largest reservoir, is located in the west African nation of Ghana. Known to locals as Volta Lake, it was built to provide electricity, fresh water and economic opportunities to the people of Ghana. The lake borders the regions of Volta, Central, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, and ... |
Reservoir Cabonga
(Quebec, Canada) |
2,800 |
![]() ![]() A trip to Cabonga Reservoir in Quebec is the true definition of 'getting away from it all'. The massive reservoir covers 261 square miles, but only 187 square miles are water. Islands, peninsulas, and slivers of land between different pools within the reservoir occupy the remaining area. The entire ... |
Lake Superior
(Ontario, Canada / Great Lakes / Michigan, USA / Minnesota, USA / Wisconsin, USA) |
2,726 |
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Wollaston Lake
(Saskatchewan, Canada) |
2,700 |
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Kentucky Lake
(Kentucky, USA / Tennessee, USA) |
2,380 |
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Lake Oahe
(North Dakota, USA / South Dakota, USA) |
2,250 |
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Lake Victoria
(African Great Lakes / Nyanza, Kenya / Western, Kenya / Kagera, Tanzania / Mara, Tanzania / Mwanza, Tanzania / Uganda) |
2,138 |
![]() Lake Victoria -- also known as Victoria Nyanza, Ukerewe, and Nalubaale -- rakes in the superlatives: it is the largest lake on the African continent by surface area, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. Joined by five others, Lake ... |
Great Slave Lake
(Northwest Territories, Canada) |
1,900 |
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Lake Powell
(Arizona, USA / Utah, USA) |
1,900 |
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Smallwood Reservoir
(Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) |
1,756 |
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Lake Inari
(Finland) |
1,724 |
![]() ![]() Lake Inari, in the Lapland area of northern Finland, is a hot fishing destination. Also called Lake Inarijarvi, the huge lake near the northern tip of Finland is well-known as an ideal fishing lake for brown trout, lake trout, grayling, Arctic char, perch and whitefish. The third-largest lake in Finland, ... |
Great Bear Lake
(Northwest Territories, Canada) |
1,690 |
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Lake Michigan
(Great Lakes / Illinois, USA / Indiana, USA / Michigan, USA / Wisconsin, USA) |
1,638 |
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Kuybyshev Reservoir
(Povolzhsky, Russia) |
1,618 |
![]() The Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir is a 1,593,823-acre lake in the middle of the Volga and lower Kama rivers in west central (Middle Volga Region) Russia. The reservoir was created by the Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station dam located between the cities of Zhigulevsk and Togliatti in Samara ... |
Fort Peck Lake
(Montana, USA) |
1,520 |
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