Lakes are popular recreational areas and provide the livelihood for millions of people. Reason enough to take a look at the 10 largest lakes in the world.
10. Great slave lake
His German name owes the Great Slave Lake in northwestern Canada a translation error. Because the 28,568 km ² large lake is not named after slaves, but after the formerly settled in the area around the lake Indian people of the Slavey, whose members were formerly referred to in English as "slaves", which also means slave.
9. Malawi Lake
The Lake Malawi, which extends over the territories of Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania and is 29,600 km ² and 579 km long, is called in the national languages of the coastal states Nyassa or Nyasa or Niassa and is the third largest lake in Africa.
8. Great Bear Lake
Around the shores of the lake in northwestern Canada, silver and uranium were formerly mined and traded in furs. Today, the 31,328 km ² and 373 km long lake attracts mainly adventurous tourists.
7. Baikal Lake
The lake, located in the heart of Siberia, is the oldest freshwater lake in the world at over 25 million years old, and the deepest, with a maximum depth of 1,642 meters. Its area of 31.722 km² and its length of 636 km are impressive.
6. Tanganyika Lake
The lake, located between Tanzania, DR Congo, Burundi and Zambia, is the second largest lake in Africa with an area of 32,893 km² and a length of 676 km. With a maximum depth of 1,470 m, it is also the second deepest in the world.
5. Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, spanning Canada and the United States. Unlike the other four, he is completely in the US. It has an area of 58,016 km² and a length of 517 km.
4. Lake Huron
Across the 59,596 km ² and 397 km long Lake Huron runs part of the border between Canada and the USA. It is part of the five Great Lakes of North America and was named after the Indian tribe of the Hurons.
3. Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world with its huge area of 68,894 km² and the largest in Africa. It covers the states of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya and is the lifeblood of nearly 30 million people.
2. Lake Superior
With an area of 82,103 km² (roughly the size of Austria) and a length of 616 km, the Upper Lake is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America and the largest freshwater lake in the world.
1. Caspian Sea
Because of its huge area of 386,400 km² and its length of 1,199 km, the Caspian Sea is not called lake but sea. It is thus almost five times the size of the second largest lake on earth. Riparian states are Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
Have you ever been to one?