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2. Lake Superior - North America - 82,100 sq km (31,698 sq mi)
3. Lake Victoria - Africa - 68,800 sq km (26,563 sq mi)
4. Lake Huron - North America - 59,600 sq km (23,011 sq mi)
5. Lake Michigan - North America - 57,800 sq km (22,316 sq mi)
6. Lake Tanganyika - Africa - 32,900 sq km (12,702 sq mi)
7. Baikal - Asia - 30,500 sq km (11,776 sq mi)
8. Great Bear Lake - North America - 31,328 sq km (12,095 sq mi)
9. Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa) - Africa - 30,044 sq km (11,600 sq mi)
10. Great Slave Lake - North America - 28,568 sq km (11.030 sq mi)Oldest Lake
At more than 25 million years old, Baikal is also the world's oldest lake.[8] Like Lake Tanganyika, Lake Baikal was formed as an ancient rift valley, having the typical long crescent shape with a surface area of 31,722 km2/12,248 sq mi, less than that of Lake Superior or Lake Victoria. Baikal is home to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world[9] and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.[10] It is also home toBuryat tribes who reside on the eastern side of Lake Baikal,[11][12] rearing goat, camel, cattle and sheep,[12] where the regional temperature varies from a minimum of -17°C in winter to maximum of 14°C in summer.[13]
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Which is the world's oldest lake?
The worlds oldest lake is in Russia, and is called " Lake Baikal".
Is lake baikal a sea or a lake?
It is the world's oldest lake
The oldest and deepest lake in the world is?
Lake Baikal
How old is the oldest lake?
The oldest lake in the world is Lake Baikal. It is believed to be at least 25 million years old and is located in south-east Siberia. Baikal is a freshwater lake and contains about 20 percent of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
What continent is biakal?
Lake Baikal is the oldest lake in the world and is located in Russia on the continent of Asia.
What deep freshwater is located in central Siberia?
Lake Baikal is the deepest oldest lake in the world and the largest freshwater lake by volume.
What is Earths oldest lake?
Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake at 25 million years Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
What is Japans largest lake?
Lake Biwa. It is said to cover about 259 sq. miles. It is also one of the oldest in the world.
Biakal the widest lake in the world?
Apparently not. It is supposed to be the deepest and the oldest though, and one of the clearest.
What is the oldest manmade lake in South Carolina?
The oldest manmade lake in South Carolina is Lake Wateree. It is in Kershaw County and has 216 miles of shoreline.
What is the worlds oldest and largest lake?
the Hampton lake is the largest lake in America
What is the oldest lake in North America?
Mono Lake is at least 760,000 years old, but some say that Clear Lake is the oldest lake in North America. It is around 480,000 years old it is also the largest natural fresh water lake completely in California.
