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A lake is a large body of water, usually fresh water, surrounded by land. Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland seas" and small seas are sometimes referred to as lakes. For examples (of saline lakes): the Great Salt Lake, but the Dead Sea. The largest "lake" in the world is the Caspian Sea, and the deepest is Lake Baikal in Siberia. The term lake is also used to describe a feature such as Lake Eyre which is dry most of the time but become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rainfall.

Finland is known as The Land of the Thousand Lakes and Minnesota is known as The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

There are dark basaltic plains on the Moon, similar to lunar maria but smaller, that are called lacus (singular lacus, Latin for "lake"). They were once thought by early astronomers to be literal lakes.

Over 60% of the world's lakes are in Canada; this is because of the deranged drainage system that dominates the country.

Kielder WaterKielder Water is Britain's largest man-made lake, cradled within Kielder Forest and set deep within the Northumberland landscape. The lake is owned by Northumbrian Water, and holds 200 billion litres of water to ensure the people and industry of North Eas is Northern Europe's largest man-made lake.

List of lakesA list of lakes ordered by continent: Africa International Lakes in Africa Lake Albert (Mobuto-Sese-Seko) Lake Chad Lake Edward Lake Kariba Lake Kivu Lake Mweru Lake Nasser Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) Lake Tanganyika Lake Victoria See also: Great Lakes of Af
LochA loch is the name given to a body of water in Scotland or Ireland. The spelling lough is used in Hiberno-English, although it is an anglicisation of the Irish form of the word, also "loch". The Scottish spelling is retained by many in Northern Ireland, w
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PondA pond is: A body of water smaller than a lake. Used for small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross; Also: garden ponds, engineered treatment features (see treatment pond), and field units in agriculture (for example,
LagoonSee lagoon (disambiguation) for other possible meanings. A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank), coral reef, or similar feature. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a barr
geographyGeography is the scientific study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. The word derives from the Greek words g ("the Earth") and graphein ("to write," as in "to describe"). Geography is also the title of v
TarnA tarn is a mountain lake, formed in a valley excavated by a glacier. A moraine may form a natural dam below a tarn. Glaciology Forms of water.

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LakeA lake is a large body of water, usually fresh water, surrounded by land. Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland seas" and small seas are sometimes referred to as lakes. For examples (of saline lakes): the Great Salt Lake, but the Dead Sea.	Lake TanaLake T'ana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia. It is approximately 84 km long 66 km wide and is located in the country's north-west highlands (Lat 12° 0' North, Lon 37° 15' East). Greatest depth is 15 m, over 3000 km2 in ar	Lake ErieLeamington, Ontario Lake Erie is one of the five large freshwater Great Lakes in North America, the world's largest such lakes. Lake Erie itself is the 13th largest natural lake, if the Caspian and Aral Seas are counted. It has a surface area of 24,000 km
Lake OntarioWolcott, New York Lake Ontario bounded on the north by Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by New York State, is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The name of the lake is an Iroquois word meaning either "beautiful lake"	Lake MichiganLake Michigan is one of the five North American Great Lakes. It is bounded, in clockwise order from the south, by the US states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which is named for it. Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes wholly w	Lake SuperiorLake Superior is the largest of North America's Great Lakes. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area with Lake Baikal in Siberia having more volume. The Caspian Sea is larger, but contains salt water. Lake Superior has a surface are
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