Lakes in Asia

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is, by standard definition, the largest lake on Earth. It is the largest enclosed inland body of water, and thus sometimes referred to as a ...

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is nothing short than a natural wonder. It is the deepest, oldest and largest freshwater lake by volume, containing one fifth of the ...

Lake Akan

Lake Akan (Akan-ko), probably the most famous Japanese lake, is found in the North-Eastern part of Hokkaido Island, in a caldera-type volcanic crater which ...

Aral Sea

The Aral Sea is an endorheic lake lying between the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan. Once ...

Lake Balkhash

Lake Balkhash, the third largest lake in Kazakhstan after the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea, plays a significant role in preserving and managing the natural ...

Issyk Kul

Issyk Kul, located in the Eastern part of Kyrgyzstan, is the 10th largest lake in the world by volume, and the second largest salt lake on the planet, after ...

Lake Van

Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey and the second largest in the Middle East, situated in the Eastern part of the country in the Van district, close to ...

Bratsk Reservoir

Bratsk Reservoir is an artificial lake on the upper part of the Angara River, located in the Irkutsk Oblast of ...

Lake Toba

Lake Toba is located in one of Indonesia’s most populous provinces, North Sumatra, in the middle of the northern part of the island of Sumatra, ...

Lake Matano

Lake Matano is a tectonic lake in the South Sulawesi. It is the deepest lake in the country and the tenth deepest in the ...

Lake Khovsgol

Nicknamed “the Dark Blue Pearl of Mongolia”, Khovsgol Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Mongolia by volume and second largest by ...

Lake Taymyr

Lake Taymyr is the second largest lake after Lake Baikal in the Asian part of Russia, located in the central regions of the Taymyr Peninsula. It is located ...

Sarez Lake

Sarez Lake is located deep in the inaccessible Pamir Mountains, in the Rushon district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Province in Central Tajikistan. It is ...

Lake Urmia

Lake Urmia is a hypersaline lake situated in Iran, close to the border with Turkey. At its full size, it once was the largest lake in the Middle ...

Qinghai Lake

The saline Qinghai Lake, the largest lake located entirely in China, is located between the Hainan and Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures in the ...

Lake Khanka

Lake Khanka is the largest freshwater lake in the Far East of Russia, with 72% of it located in Russia, while the remaining 28% belongs to China. It is also ...

Dead Sea

The Dead Sea is a terminal hypersaline lake bordering the countries of Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. Because of its low elevation and its beneficial ...

Lake Shikotsu

Lake Shikotsu is the second deepest lake in Japan after Lake Tazawa, and the 8th largest in the country by surface area. It is located in Chitose, on the ...

Uvs Lake

Uvs Lake is the largest lake in Mongolia by surface area, and also the largest saline lake in the country. The lake area is one of the most important ...

Karakul Lake

Karakul Lake, also known as Lake Siob, is located in the Pamir Mountains in the Tajik National Park of Tajikistan, in one of the most beautiful and remote ...

Lake Mash?

Lake Mashu is an endorheic crater lake located in Akan National Park on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. It is mostly known for its exceptional clarity, and ...

Lake Sevan

Lake Sevan is one of the largest freshwater high-altitude lakes in the world, and the largest lake in Armenia and the Transcaucasus Region. The basin of the ...

Lake Zaysan

Lake Zaysan is a freshwater lake in eastern Kazakhstan. It is located in a hollow between the Altai Mountains to the northeast and the Tarbagatay Mountains ...

Lake Biwa

Lake Biwa is the largest freshwater lake in Japan, located northeast from the former capital city of Kyoto, in Shiga ...

Lake Tuz

Lake Tuz is the second largest lake in Turkey after Lake Van, and is one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the ...

Lake Lanao

Lake Lanao is a large, oligotrophic freshwater lake, located on Mindanao Island in the Philippines. It is the second largest lake in the country, the ...

Lake Iznik

Lake Iznik is located in the province of Bursa in Turkey and is one of the most important sites for Christianity in the ...

Laguna de Bay

Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines and the third largest inland body of water in South-East Asia, after Toule Sap of Cambodia and Lake ...

Lake Arpi

Lake Arpi is a lake located in the northwestern part of Armenia, in the Shirak Province, near the border with Georgia and ...