Artike berikut adalah daftar danau dari tiga hingga lima danau utama per wilayah, dengan tautan ke daftar danau wilayah yang lebih rinci. Sebuah danau "utama" didefinisikan sebagai danau yang terbesar berdasarkan luas, kedalaman, volume, atau signifikansi budaya dan/atau lingkungan.

Afrika

Danau Besar Afrika

Daftar berdasarkan negara

Aljazair


Angola


Benin

Botswana


Burkina Faso


Kamerun

 
Pemandangan Danau Awing yang terletak di Wilayah Barat Laut Kamerun
 
Danau Bambili, Kamerun
 
Seluruh Danau Barombi, Kamerun
 
Danau Monoun, Kamerun
 
Danau Manengouba, Kamerun
 
Lake Oku, Kamerun

Cape Verde


Republik Afrika Tengah


Chad

Komoro


Republik Demokrasi Kongo


Republic of the Congo


Djibouti


Mesir

Equatorial Guinea


Eritrea


Eswatini


Etiopia

Gabon


The Gambia


Ghana


Guinea


Guinea-Bissau


Ivory Coast


Kenya

Lesotho


Liberia


Libya


Madagascar


Malawi


Mali


Mauritania


Mauritius


Morocco


Mozambique


Namibia


Niger


Nigeria


Rwanda

São Tomé and Príncipe


Senegal


Seychelles


Sierra Leone


Somalia


South Afrika


South Sudan


Sudan


Tanzania

Togo


Tunisia


Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe


Antarctica

There are hundreds of lakes deep below the ice of Antarctica.[1]


Asia

International lakes of Asia

  • Lake Baikal – Lake Baikal is located in Siberia in southeastern Russia, just north of Mongolia. Considered the oldest surviving freshwater lake on the planet, it is also the deepest body of water in Asia at 5,315 kaki (1,620 m), and the largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 20% of the planet's fresh water. An elongated lake, it has a maximum width of 60 mil (97 km) with an approximate length of 389 mil (626 km), and is fed by more than 300 rivers and streams.[2]
  • Caspian Sea – Situated between Asia and Europe and fed by the Volga and Ural Rivers in the north, the Caspian Sea is nevertheless somewhat salty in its central and south portions. The surface area measures 371,000 kilometer persegi (143,244 sq mi), with a maximum depth of 1.025 meter (3.363 ft).[2]
  • Aral Sea – Also in far-western Asia, just east of the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea straddles the boundary between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The Aral Sea is shrinking due to evaporation and diversion for irrigation (among other factors) and what remains (only 10% of its former size)[3] is now almost totally polluted by fertilizer runoff, Soviet weapon testing residue and industrial projects,[2] leading to it being called "one of the planet's worst environmental disasters".[4]

Daftar berdasarkan negara

Afghanistan


Armenia



Azerbaijan


Bahrain



Bangladesh


Bhutan



Brunei


  • Cypt

Cambodia


 
Tonlé Sap Lake, Cambodia

China


Siprus



East Timor



Georgia



India


Indonesia

Iran

Iraq


Israel

Japan


Jordan


Kazakhstan

North Korea



South Korea



Kuwait



Kyrgyzstan


Laos



Lebanon



Malaysia


Maldives



Mongolia


Myanmar



Nepal


Oman



Pakistan


 
Lake Saiful Muluk, Kaghan Valley, Pakistan
 
Rush Lake (Pakistan), the highest lake in Pakistan and 27th-highest in the world[5]

Filipina


Qatar


Russia


Saudi Arabia



Singapura



Sri Lanka



Suriah


Tajikistan



Thailand


Turki

Turkmenistan


Uni Emirat Arab - UEA



Uzbekistan


Vietnam



Yemen



Palestina


Taiwan


 
Chiaming Lake di Taitung County, Taiwan

Eropa

Danau Internasional Eropa

Daftar berdasarkan negara

Republik Albania


Andorra



Armenia


Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus



Belgia



Bosnia dan Herzegovina



Bulgaria


Kroasia



Siprus


Republik Ceko



Denmark



Estonia


Finlandia


Prancis



Georgia



Jerman


Yunani



Hungaria

Islandia


Irlandia



Italia

Kazakhstan


Latvia


Liechtenstein



Lithuania



Luxembourg



Malta



Moldova



Monako



Montenegro



Belanda



Macedonia Utara



Norwegia



Polandia


Portugal



Romania



Russia



San Marino



Serbia


Slovakia


Slovenia


Spanyol


Swedia

Swiss


Turki


Ukraina


Britania Raya



Amerika Utara dan Amerika Tengah

Danau Internasional Amerika Utara

Tercantum dalam urutan terjadinya dari ujung perbatasan paling timur ke paling barat

Daftar berdasarkan negara

Antigua dan Barbuda



Bahamas



Barbados



Belize



Kanada

Kosta Rica



Kuba



Dominika



Republik Dominika



El Salvador


Grenada



Guatemala

Haiti



Honduras


Jamaica



Meksiko


Nikaragua

Panama


Saint Kitts dan Nevis


Saint Lucia


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines


Trinidad dan Tobago


Amerika Serikat - AS

 
The Great Lakes on June 23, 2022, from the International Space Station


Oceania

Daftar berdasarkan negara

Australia


Negara Federasi Mikronesia



Fiji



Kiribati



Kepulauan Marshall



Nauru


Selandia Baru


Palau



Papua New Guinea



Samoa



Kepulauan Solomon



Tonga



Tuvalu



Vanuatu



Wallis dan Futuna



Amerika Selatan

Danau Internasional Amerika Selatan

Daftar berdasarkan negara

Argentina



Bolivia


Brasil



Chili



Kolombia



Ekuador



Guyana



Paraguay


Peru

Suriname


Uruguay



Venezuela


Bekas danau

Danau ekstraterestrial

Templat:Category see also if exists

Titan



Berikut adalah Daftar danau berdasarkan spesifikasinya:

Berdasarkan ukuran

Berdasarkan kawasan

Lihat juga

Templat:Daftar badan air

Referensi

  1. ^ See map in Aldhous, Peter (August 23, 2014). "First samples of Antarctic lake reveal thriving life". New Scientist: 12. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(14)61609-2. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal August 23, 2014. 
  2. ^ a b c "Lakes of Asia, Landforms of Asia – Worldatlas.com". WorldAtlas. Reunion Technology Inc. Diakses tanggal August 15, 2020. 
  3. ^ Micklin, Philip; Aladin, Nikolay V. (April 2008). "Reclaiming the Aral Sea". Scientific American. Diakses tanggal May 17, 2008. 
  4. ^ "Aral Sea 'one of the planet's worst environmental disasters'". The Daily Telegraph. London. April 5, 2010. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal April 8, 2010. Diakses tanggal May 1, 2010. 
  5. ^ "The Highest Lake in the World". highestlake.com. Diakses tanggal October 13, 2019. 

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