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Huge List of Famous Lakes

Difficulty level: hard. Try to name these 44 lakes from around the world.
Area in square kilometers
Some of these are called "seas" in vernacular English. Please do your best to remain calm.
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Last updated: December 5, 2025
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Lake
Considered the largest lake in the world, but also a full-fledged sea
389,000
Caspian Sea
Largest freshwater lake by area
82,100
Lake Superior
Named for a queen
59,940
Lake Victoria
Named for a Native American group
59,590
Lake Huron
Largest lake entirely within the United States
58,030
Lake Michigan
Largest lake in Africa by volume
32,900
Lake Tanganyika
One of two Canadian lakes starting with "Great"
31,153
Great Bear Lake
Deepest and oldest lake in the world, and also the largest freshwater
lake by volume
31,722
Lake Baikal
Shares its name with a country in southern Africa
29,600
Lake Malawi
One of two Canadian lakes starting with "Great"
27,200
Great Slave Lake
Cleveland's lake
25,667
Lake Erie
Toronto's lake
18,970
Lake Ontario
Largest in Europe, second largest in Russia
17,700
Lake Ladoga
Largest in Kazakhstan
16,400
Lake Balkhash
Buried under 4000 meters of ice, it is the largest lake in Antarctica
12,500
Lake Vostok
Largest lake in South America, and largest lake in the mountains
8,372
Lake Titicaca
Largest in Central America. Has freshwater sharks.
8,264
Lake Nicaragua
Named for a northern mammal, part of it lies on an ancient meteor impact crater
6,650
Lake Reindeer
Formed by the creation of the Aswan Dam and named for an Egyptian president
5,250
Lake Nasser
Found at the northernmost point of the lower 48 U.S. states
4,350
Lake of the Woods
Largest in Turkey
3,755
Lake Van
Remnants of what was the world's 4th largest lake in 1950
3,300
North Aral Sea
Lake in northern Africa which was 100 times as large 10,000 years ago
2,000
Lake Chad
Largest in Florida
1,900
Lake Okeechobee
Located in the caldera of an Indonesian supervolcano which erupted
74,000 years ago
1,130
Lake Toba
Formed by the closing off of the Zuiderzee on the Dutch coast
1,100
IJsselmeer
Largest in Utah
950
Great Salt Lake
Largest in New Zealand
616
Lake Taupo
Its shoreline has the lowest elevation of any place on the Earth's surface
605
Dead Sea
Largest in Hungary
600
Lake Balaton
Largest in Switzerland and France
580
Lake Geneva
Largest in Italy
370
Lake Garda
Known as the "Missouri Dragon" due to its irregular coastline
220
Lake of the Ozarks
Found on the California/Nevada border
191
Lake Tahoe
Where Jesus walked on water in the Bible
166
Sea of Galilee
The town of Bellagio lies on this Italian lake known for its ritzy villas
146
Lake Como
Located in a national park, it is the largest lake in North America with an
elevation over 2000 meters
136
Yellowstone Lake
Largest in Scotland
71
Loch Lomond
The deepest lake in the United States, it sits atop a volcano
53
Crater Lake
Lake in Scotland known for its sea monster
36.2
Loch Ness
Largest in England
14.7
Windermere
Located in New York near the site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics
8.8
Lake Placid
Lake in Palau with marine creatures that have evolved to lose
the power of their stings
0.05
Jellyfish Lake
Former lake located where Mexico City now sits
0
Lake Texcoco
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16 Comments
cathlete
+3
Level 78
Dec 5, 2025
Can you accept "Crater" and "Placid" as typeins?
sumguy
+3
Level 87
Dec 5, 2025
And "Okeechobee". I tried a dozen spellings before I figured out that you had to type "Lake Placid", and then guessed that you need to type "Lake Okeechobee". "Lake" should be a given for all lakes in a lakes quiz.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 5, 2025
Fixed, sorry about that.
cathlete
+1
Level 78
Dec 5, 2025
I just gave up trying to spell Okeechobee lol
FlabberBapper
+2
Level 77
Dec 5, 2025
Some type-ins require you to type in "lake" for the answer. I noticed it with Placid and Okeechobee at least, there could be more.
MrPi2002
+2
Level 77
Dec 5, 2025
Maybe accept Lac Leman or even just Leman for lake Geneva? Otherwise, great quiz although a bit short and US centric.
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Dec 5, 2025
Lac Leman will work now.

Don't you mean Canadian centric? A lot of the world just doesn't have big lakes...

Camnob19
+1
Level 68
Dec 5, 2025
Yes please, as MrPi said, please accept Lac Leman as that is the name we use in Geneva
Xtrordinary
+6
Level 75
Dec 6, 2025
Largest lake not on here: Lake Onega

Most viewed lake on Wikipedia not on here (since mid 2015): Salton Sea

Lake in the most Wikipedia languages not on here: Issyk-Kul

Koopa
+1
Level 88
Dec 6, 2025
That's a lot of lakes. Contiguous US, not lower 48.
eibi
+2
Level 80
Dec 16, 2025
Northern Africa, for me, are the countries bordering the Mediterranean. The Chad/Nigeria border area does not come to mind. Otherwise, great quiz!
Rade
+1
Level 96
Dec 18, 2025
Chad is in central Africa.
NQChien
+1
Level 69
Jan 7, 2026
You forgot Tonlé Sap, the biggest lake in Cambodia.
MindWax
+1
Level 87
Feb 15, 2026
They also forgot Lake Loumbila, the 2nd-largest manmade lake in the Ganzourgou Province of Burkina Faso.
Swatcat
+1
Level 79
Jan 7, 2026
Loved this! I’ve just been to two of the lakes in the quiz.. and they were just 😍
S1llver
+1
Level 51
Jan 8, 2026
Dang it, misspelling Lake Erie got me again. I definitely missed a good amount that I should’ve gotten…

Good quiz though!

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