World Lakes

Maracaibo

Lake Maracaibo gets more lightning than anywhere else on Earth. Each year, the lake experiences more than 230 lightning flashes per square kilometer.

Michigan and Huron

The Straits of Mackinac connect these 2 Great Lakes

Michigan

The only great lake entirely in the United States.

Lake Chad

(Africa) Formerly Africa's fourth-largest lake, its surface area has been reduced by over 90% since the 1960s due to droughts and diversion of water for irrigation

Lake Tanganyika

(Africa) Lake Tanganyika is Africa's second largest lake. The second deepest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Tanganyika is part of the border between eastern and central Africa.

Lake Victoria

(Africa) The world's second-largest and Africa's largest freshwater lake by area, Lake Victoria lies along the Equator and is shared between Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Named after Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

Lake Titicana

(Africa) one of the world's highest lakes. Lake Titicaca is located high in the Andes. It is bordered by the countries of Peru and Bolivia. More then 25 rivers feed into this lake.

Aral Sea

(Asia) Once one of the four largest lakes in the world, it lost 90% of its water when the Soviet Union began diverting water during the 1960s for irrigation to grow cotton crops. Unfortunately the canal was never built

Lake Baikal

(Asia) The deepest lake in the world and largest volume fresh water lake in the world; located in eastern Russia. The water in Lake Baikal is the most transparent of all the freshwater lakes in the world.

Caspian Sea

(Asia) The world's largest lake (by surface area). It is a saline (salt) lake.

Great Lakes

(North America) A series of interconnected lakes in North America consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario

Lake Superior

(North America) The largest lake in North America; largest of the Great Lakes