Article: List of Important Lakes in India & World

  LIST OF IMPORTANT LAKES IN INDIA & WORLD  

 INDIA 

Sl. No.	Name of the Lakes	Surface Area[km^2]	State
1.	Pulicat Lake	250-450	Andhra Pradesh
2.	Kanwar Taal or Kabr Taal Lake	67.50	Bihar
3.	Sukhna Lake	3	Chandigarh
4.	Thol Lake	6.99	Gujarat
5.	Narayan Sarovar	0.759	Gujarat
6.	Tilyar Lake	0.53	Haryana
7.	Dal Lake	18-22	Jammu & Kashmir
8.	Manasbal Lake	2.81	Jammu & Kashmir
9.	Bellandur Lake	3.61	Karnataka
10.	Ashtamudi Lake	61.4	Kerala
11.	Bhojtal Lake or Upper Lake	31	Madhya Pradesh
12.	Lonar Lake	1.13	Maharashtra
13.	Loktak Lake	287	Manipur
14.	Chilika Lake	900-1165	Odisha
15.	Harike Wetland	4.1	Punjab
16.	Dhebar Lake	87	Rajasthan
17.	Kaylana Lake	84	Rajasthan
18.	Gurudongmar Lake	1.18	Sikkim
19.	Tsomgo Lake	0.24	Sikkim
20.	Ooty Lake	3.89	Tamil Nadu
21.	Hussain Sagar	4.4	Telangana
22.	Belasagar Lake	4.4	Uttar Pradesh
23.	Mirik Lake	122.3	West Bengal
24.	Rabindra Sarobar Lake	3	West Bengal

 WORLD 

Sl. No.	Name of the Lakes	Surface Area[km^2]	Country
1.	Caspian Sea	4,36,000	Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan & Azerbaijan
2.	Superior Lake	82,100	United States & Canada
3.	Victoria Lake	68,870	Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania
4.	Baikal Lake	31,500	Russia
5.	Great Bear Lake	31,000	Canada
6.	Ontario Lake	18,960	United States & Canada
7.	Onega Lake	9,720	Russia
8.	Volta Lake	8,502	Ghana
9.	Great Salt Lake	4,662	United States
10.	Saimaa Lake	4,400	Finland
11.	Khanka	4,190	China & Russia