The largest lake in the world based on the volume and surface area

WHAT IS THE LARGEST LAKE IN THE WORLD? There are two basic ways to determine which lake is the largest. Can be judged by its surface area, and can be judged by the volume of water. In addition, should participate in such comparisons ponds with salt water? It turns out that the question in the title, it is not as simple as it may seem from the beginning. Therefore, we consider the responses to it, using all possible criteria of evaluation. Salty Caspian Sea - the largest natural body of water, bounded on all sides by land. The volume of the Caspian - 78,700 cubic miles. Lake Baikal - the largest freshwater lake, if we assume that the volume of water. It contains 23 thousand cubic kilometers of fresh water. It's about a fifth of all freshwater on Earth. Only one Lake Baikal contains as much water as all the five U.S. Great Lakes region. If you take the surface area, in the first place is the Caspian Sea. Its surface area 370,900 square kilometers. However, among the freshwater lakes championship keeps Lake Superior, which is located on the border of Canada and the United States, the area of ??its "mirror" of 82,100 square kilometers. See also: Land Basin biggest edifice that was built on the planet living beings ... It flows from the rocks water ordinary record of a tsunami wave height Desert-record record highs over the world have a rival Everest! The deepest point of the oceans cuho Here, as in the space where much warmer planet Fridge not very deep, but one of the longest caves Powerful tremors did not bring trouble, but the tsunami places of extreme temperatures longest river in the world as formed the largest seamounts Dead Sea - why is it called so? The place where the biggest annual rainfall Ice celestial bombardment Giants ice kingdom's longest bridge in the world