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Can you name the world's largest natural lakes?

Enter a lake in the box below
Correctly named lakes will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: davidr
Lake is defined as a body of water surrounded by land
Source: U.S. Dept. of Interior (from The World Almanac 2009)

You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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Rank	Lake	Area (km²)
1.		371,000
2.		82,414
3.		69,485
4.		59,569
5.		57,756
6.		32,893
7.		31,500
8.		31,080
9.		30,044
10.		28,930

Rank	Lake	Area (km²)
11.		25,719
12.		23,553
13.		19,477
14.		18,428
15.		18,130
16.		13,300
17.		9,891
18.		9,500
19.		8,135
20.		8,001
15,690 km²
33,670 km²

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	Bees:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 09:32 GMT	10 points
	Am I the only one who tried Lake Hylia?

	Robert_Lo:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 09:36 GMT	6 points
	I only got the 5 HOMES lakes...can't believe I didn't think of the Caspian Sea.

	nhrafan:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 10:02 GMT	3 points
	I didnt do so hot either, although i'm glad that i am part of only 4.1% of people to get number 16

	marpocky:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 10:40 GMT	-4 points
	15/20, and never heard of 4 of the other 5.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 10:47 GMT	3 points
	Only got 7. I've never heard of most of them.

	phw:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:00 GMT	11 points
	If the Aral sea is 3 lakes with total area of 33000 km^2 as stated in the bonus answer, then at least one of those three lakes should have the 10000 km^2 needed to be on the top 20. (Although the way the Aral's going, in a few more years it may not matter.)

	chillicothe20:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:10 GMT	-4 points
	why is the black sea not a lake?

	jjuva13:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:18 GMT	10 points
	I think it's because the Black Sea is not completely enclosed by land.

	jjuva13:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:20 GMT	3 points
	and it's not formed by a river.

	Chumley:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:31 GMT	5 points
	What about Lake Vostok?

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 12:53 GMT	1 point
	@phw: The admins have edited this quiz somewhat from the version I submitted (from an admittedly undersourced Wikipedia page). The World Almanac gives a much higher area for the Aral Sea than the 17,160km² quoted by Wikipedia. The latter figure means that none of the components has to be bigger than 6000km².

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 13:36 GMT	5 points
	@chillicothe20: The Black Sea is connected to the Atlantic via the Bosporus, the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar.

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 13:57 GMT	2 points
	`Lake' Maracaibo is also connected to the Atlantic Ocean. It's just a bay of the Caribbean Sea. It's at sea level and opens directly out into the ocean across a five-mile-wide boundary: there's not even a short river between the two.

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 14:26 GMT	0 points
	@Jake M.: No, I tried it too, after your prompt. ;-)

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	ZacharyTaylor:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 15:58 GMT	-4 points
	bonus aral sea

	Art:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 15:59 GMT	1 point
	Lake Huron? Surface area 23,010 sq mi (59,600 km2)[1]

	ZacharyTaylor:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 15:59 GMT	0 points
	10/20 and 1 bonus

	OscilatingGibbon:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 16:44 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz, I'm pretty sure Lake Vostok should be on there as it fits the definition given.

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 16:48 GMT	4 points
	@raveneleni: The Red Sea is connected to the Indian Ocean via the Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden.

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	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	3 points
	@RunnDMC: Seriously? Loch Ness is under 60km²: the twentieth lake on this list is more than 140 times its size. Also, Loch Lomond is bigger than Loch Ness (a little over 70km²) and Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is considerably bigger than either (388km²). The top two lakes here are bigger than the whole of Scotland and the top twelve are bigger than Wales. For American context, the top fifteen are bigger than Connecticut and number two is fractionally smaller than South Carolina.

	davidr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 18:38 GMT	3 points
	@Art: Lake Huron is #4 on the list.

	weizenugb:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 18:40 GMT	4 points
	Served. Nice quiz, davidr. I could only get 11, but my Canadian prowess helped me with Great Bear, Great Slave, and Winnipeg. Also I couldn't remember the name of the lake that borders Rwanda.

	weizenugb:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 18:42 GMT	5 points
	Actually I guess I was thinking of Tanganyika, and it doesn't even border Rwanda. Nevermind.

	Booger:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 19:06 GMT	22 points
	Am I immature? Probably. But I've always loved Lake Titicaca.

	HollywoodLeo:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 20:50 GMT	5 points
	That's where the Great Cornholio hails from!

	Uhlan:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 21:12 GMT	3 points
	Tim, maybe Lake Malawi? Also, where would Vattern and Vanern (not sure about spelling) in Sweden be?

	Morbo:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	3 points
	@Booger: I'm disappointed that I forgot Lake Titicaca. I basically the Caspian Sea, the Great Lakes, No. 2, and the bonus of the Aral Sea (only because I've been reading a book that mentioned it as a huge environmental disaster). Tough quiz.

	leob:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	2 points
	This quiz favors Russians. + Baikal, Balkhash, Ladoga, Onega.

	Tim_Allen:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	0 points
	Nice one, Leo B. :)

	Bray:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 23:03 GMT	3 points
	Disappointed at missing some. Got the top 6, plus Malawi and Ontario.

	ntnon:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 23:24 GMT	-1 points
	Isn't "TitiKaKa" a reasonably widely accepted variant spelling..?

	chambers:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 23:46 GMT	5 points
	recognised all of the top ten but only got 8. should have got winnipeg too

	starboy7:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 00:02 GMT	3 points
	fun quiz but i didnt know many of them, but i got all the great lakes (i should im surrounded by them)

	davidr:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 01:20 GMT	0 points
	@Ben: Lake Vänern is about 26th (5,545km²); Vättern is rather smaller (1,900km²) but is still Sweden's second-largest lake. Data from Wikipedia, which quotes a rather different list to the one used here, hence `about'.

	davidr:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 01:26 GMT	0 points
	@Leo B: Eight of the twenty are at least partly Canadian.

	Tim Allen:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 02:03 GMT	7 points
	@davidr: He was clearly kidding (at least I think so, given Leo's penchant for sarcasm). But thanks for playing into the joke.

	MRS.JONAS:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT	0 points
	i only got my lake [= lol

	HollywoodLeo:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 08:55 GMT	3 points
	What is it with Leos having a penchant for sarcasm?