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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	100%
"...which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s"	Aral Sea	92%
"... the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea."	Caspian Sea	92%
"...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	92%
"the only one of the five Great Lakes located fully in the United States"	Lake Michigan	85%
"It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest average water residence time."	Lake Erie	77%
"It has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands"	Lake Huron	77%
"... 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	77%
"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	77%
"...also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique"	Lake Malawi	69%
"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	62%
"...largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world"	Great Salt Lake	62%
"... the largest lake in Sweden, the largest lake in the European Union and the third-largest lake in Europe."	Vänern	46%
"The lake is situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet."	Lake Constance	38%
"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	38%
"It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe."	Lake Ladoga	38%
"The Chiemgau, the region surrounding the lake, is a popular recreation area."	Chiemsee	31%
"The waters [...] flow out of the lake at its north-west end (Quaibrücke), passing through the city of Zürich"	Lake Zurich	31%
"... 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	23%
"... a lake in the Julian Alps of the Upper Carniolan region of northwestern Slovenia, [...] the area is a tourist destination"	Lake Bled	15%
"The easternmost bay [...], in central Stockholm, is called Riddarfjärden"	Mälaren	15%
"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	0%

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