Lakes
World’s Largest Lakes
From the Caspian Sea to Lake Titicaca: name the world’s 20 largest lakes on the map in 4 minutes.
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Every place to name is outlined on the map and marked with a dot. Type the names before the 4:00 timer runs out: each one you get is labelled on the map. You can leave out “Lake”: “Superior” is enough.
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The list, the names and sources
The 20 largest lakes by surface area, from the Caspian Sea (about 371,000 km²) down to Lake Taymyr (about 7,000 km²), as in Wikipedia’s list of lakes by area. Left out: Lake Vostok, under the Antarctic ice; lakes whose size swings a lot from year to year (Lake Eyre, Lake Chad); and the Aral Sea, most of which has dried up.
The Caspian Sea has no outlet to the ocean, so it is usually counted as the world’s largest lake, but its water is salty and everyone calls it a sea. It counts as a sea in the seas quizzes and as a lake in the largest lakes quiz.
Lakes Michigan and Huron meet at the Straits of Mackinac and are one lake as far as the water level goes, but they are always named separately.
You can leave out the generic word when the rest of the name is clear: “Mediterranean”, “Caspian”, “Bengal” and “Superior” all count. Other common names count too, such as the Sea of Cortez, Lake Nyasa or the Gulf of Siam.
“Find on the map” names one place at a time: click it on the map. You get one click per name; a wrong click marks the place in red and moves on.
Outlines come from Natural Earth (public domain): its 1:10m marine areas, 1:10m and 1:50m lakes and 1:50m countries. Where two seas meet, the line follows Natural Earth’s areas, which roughly follow the IHO limits; some seas, such as the Sargasso Sea, have no coast at all.
Natural Earth: physical vectors (marine areas, lakes, regions; public domain)