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Lakes by Wikipedia Description

Each of the wikipedia excerpts refer to one lake - can you guess which one?
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Last updated: October 29, 2023
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"the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of water or 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water, more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined"
Lake Baikal
"The lake is situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet."
Lake Constance
"The waters [...] flow out of the lake at its north-west end (Quaibrücke), passing through the city of Zürich"
Lake Zurich
"...which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s"
Aral Sea
"...largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world"
Great Salt Lake
"the only one of the five Great Lakes located fully in the United States"
Lake Michigan
"It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, between Brescia and Milan to the west, and Verona and Venice to the east"
Lake Garda
"...it is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water – 9.6 times as salty as the ocean – and has a density of 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating"
Dead Sea
"It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe."
Lake Ladoga
"... the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea."
Caspian Sea
"...also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique"
Lake Malawi
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"Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area"
Lake Victoria
"The Chiemgau, the region surrounding the lake, is a popular recreation area."
Chiemsee
"... the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake in Europe."
Vänern
"... a lake located in the Finnish Lakeland area in southeastern Finland. At approximately 4,279 square kilometres (1,652 sq mi), it is the largest lake in Finland, and the fourth-largest natural freshwater lake in Europe."
Saimaa
"The easternmost bay [...], in central Stockholm, is called Riddarfjärden"
Mälaren
"It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest average water residence time."
Lake Erie
"It has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands"
Lake Huron
"... a lake in the Julian Alps of the Upper Carniolan region of northwestern Slovenia, [...] the area is a tourist destination"
Lake Bled
"The dam was breached on 6 June 2023, which international consensus attributes to Russian forces mining and blowing the base of the dam."
Kakhovka Reservoir
"... a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world."
Lake Titicaca
"By the turn of the 20th century, the lake had become a center of research by Hungarian biologists, geologists, hydrologists, and other scientists, leading to the country's first biological research institute being built on its shore in 1927."
Balaton
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