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Lakes with a water volume over 100 km³, listed by volume.
''Note: information on lake volumes can vary considerably from source to source. For consistency, this article uses the printed source listed below (values from other sources are listed in parentheses). Lake volumes can also change dramatically over time and during the year, especially for salt lakes in arid climates.

Contents

The list

By continent

Notes

See also

Sources

The list

Continent colour key Africa Asia Europe North America Antarctica South America

	Name and location	Water volume
		mi³	km³
1.	Caspian Sea,[1] Azerbaijan-Russia-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran	18,768	78,200
2.	Baikal,[2] Russia	5,520	23,000
3.	Tanganyika, Tanzania-DRC-Burundi-Zambia	4,536	18,900
4.	Superior, Canada - U.S	2,784	11,600
5.	Michigan-Huron, Canada - U.S	1,982	8,260
6.	Malawi, Malawi-Mozambique-Tanzania	1,854	7,725
7.	Vostok, Vostok-Antarctica	1,300	5,400
8.	Victoria, Kenya-Tanzania-Uganda	648	2,700
9.	Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan	415	1,730
10.	Ontario, Canada - U.S	410	1,710
11.	Great Slave Lake, Canada	257(502)	1,070(2,090)
12.	Aral Sea, Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan (information as of 1990)	245	1,020
13.	Great Bear Lake, Canada	242(436)	1,010(2,236)
14.	Ladoga, Russia	218	908
15.	Titicaca, Bolivia-Peru	170	710
16.	Kivu, Rwanda-Congo	137	569
17.	Erie, Canada - U.S	131	545
18.	Khövsgöl, Mongolia	115	480
19.	Onega, Russia	70.8	295
20.	Turkana, Kenya	49.0	204
21.	Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan	45.1	188
22.	Vänern, Sweden	43.2	180
23.	Albert, Kenya-Tanzania-Uganda	31.7	132
24.	Winnipeg, Canada	30.5	127
25.	Balkhash, Kazakhstan	25.9	112
26.	Athabasca, Canada	26.4	110
27.	Nicaragua, Nicaragua	25.9	108

By continent

★ 'Africa' - Lake Tanganyika

★ 'Antarctica' - Lake Vostok

★ 'Asia' - Caspian Sea

★ 'Australia' - Lake MacKay, WA, 3494 km³

★ 'Central America' - Lake Nicaragua (second largest in Latin America, first in Central America)

★ 'Europe' - Lake Ladoga

★ 'North America' - Lake Superior

★ 'South America' - Lake Titicaca (Lake Maracaibo)

Notes

''Note: Lake volumes may slightly vary depending on the sources. For consistency, this article uses the source listed below.''
1. The salty Caspian Sea is considered a lake because it is land-locked.
2. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and the largest freshwater lake by volume.

See also

★ List of lakes by depth

★ List of lakes by area

★ Largest Lakes of Western Europe - Rank Order

Sources

★ van der Leeden, Troise, and Todd, eds., ''The Water Encyclopedia.'' Second Edition. Chelsea, MI: Lewis Publishers, 1990. pp. 198-200.

★ Factmonster.com