As of 2026-10-12, Chagan Lake tops the list with 700,000 km3.
- #1 Chagan Lake — 700,000 km3
lake in Songyuan, Jilin, People's Republic of China
Chagan Lake is a lake in Jilin, China. The name "Chagan" is from Mongolian, meaning white / pure lake). It is often referred to as the Sacred Lake or Holy Water Lake by local people. The lake is known for its traditional winter fishing, featuring a technique which dates back to prehistoric times. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 Caspian Sea — 78,700 km3
largest landlocked salt lake, located between Europe and Asia
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, also described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it is situated in both Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau. It covers a surface area of 371,000 km2 (143,244 sq mi), an area similar to Japan, with a volume of... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 Lake Markkleeberg — 60,700 km3
lake in Germany
Markkleeberger See (in English: Lake Markkleeberg) is an artificial lake in Saxony, Germany, next to Markkleeberg, a suburb on the south side of Leipzig. At an elevation of 112.5 m, its surface area is 2.52 km2. It is a former open-pit coal mine, flooded in 1999 with groundwater and developed in 2006 as a tourist area. On its southeastern shore is Germany's only pump-powered artificial whitewater slalom course, the Kanupark Markkleeberg. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 Lake Baikal — 23,615 km3
freshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia; the greatest mountain lake in Asia and the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world
Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 Lake Tuusula — 19,000 km3
lake in Uusimaa region, Finland
Lake Tuusula or Lake Tuusulanjärvi is a lake on the border of the municipalities of Tuusula and Järvenpää in Southern Finland. The lake has an area of 6.0 square kilometres. Since the beginning of the twentieth century the shores of Lake Tuusula has been an artist's colony. The houses of Aino and Jean Sibelius, Juhani Aho, Pekka Halonen, Eero Järnefelt, Joonas Kokkonen and Aleksis Kivi are on the edges of the lake. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 Lake Tanganyika — 18,900 km3
lake between Tanzania, DR Congo, Burundi and Zambia
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. It is also the 6th largest lake by area. The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Zambia—with Tanzania (46%) and the DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It drains via the Lukuga River into the Congo River system,... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 Lake Iruka — 15,188 km3
lake in Inuyama, Chūbu region, Japan
Lake Iruka is a reservoir located near the Meiji Mura theme park in Inuyama, Aichi, Japan. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 Großer Wariner See — 12,210 km3
lake in Nordwestmecklenburg District, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Großer Wariner See is a lake in the Nordwestmecklenburg district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 21.1 m, its surface area is 2.6 km2. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 Lake Superior — 12,100 km3
largest of the Great Lakes of North America
Lake Superior is a lake in central North America. The northernmost, westernmost, and highest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior straddles the Canada–United States border with the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east and the U.S. states of Minnesota to the west and Michigan and Wisconsin to the south. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest freshwater lake by volume. It drains into Lake Huron via St. Marys River, then through the lower... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #10 Lieps — 9,700 km3
lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Lieps is a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 14.8 m, its surface area is 4.31 km². Read more on Wikipedia.
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