Lakes and Rivers:
LAKES:
1. Caspian Sea (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Russia) is the world's largest lake.
2. Michigan-Huron (Canada - United States) Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are hydrologically a single body of water. If counted separately, Huron and Michigan are the third and fourth largest freshwater lakes, respectively.
3. Superior (Canada - United States) is the largest freshwater lake in the world, if Michigan-Huron is counted as two lakes.
4. Victoria (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya) - The largest lake in Africa; also the second largest freshwater lake in the world if Michigan-Huron is counted as two lakes.
Largest lakes by continent:
Africa: Lake Victoria (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya)
Antarctica: Lake Vostok (Subglacial Lake)
Asia: The Caspian Sea (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkemenistan, Iran, Russia)
Australia: Lake Eyre
Europe: Lake Ladoga (North-western Russia)
North America: Lake Superior (or Lake Michigan-Huron, if they are counted as one lake, both in US-Canada)
South America: Lake Titicaca (Peru, Bolivia)
Deepest lake in the world is Baikal Lake in Siberia (Russia). Also, Baikal Lake is the world's largest fresh water lake by volume. It contains nearly 1/5th of world's fresh water.
Largest freshwater lake in India is Wular Lake in Jammu & Kashmir.
Largest saline water lake in India is Lake Chilka in Orissa.
Lake Tana is called as Blue Nile; Lake Victoria is called as White Nile.
RIVERS:
A river can be defined as a stream of water flowing in a particular direction on land. Depending upon the continuity of flow, the rivers can be seasonal or perennial. Rivers carry the surface run off of their catchment areas into lakes or seas.
A large number of smaller rivers carry the water of their catchments into larger rivers. Such smaller rivers are called tributaries of the major rivers and together with the major river into which they flow, they constitute a river system.
RIVERS:
1. Nile (Africa) 4,180 mi [flows through Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt and finally reaches the Mediterranean Sea.]
2. Amazon (South America) 3,912 mi [starts from Andes Mountains in Peru and Ecuador, flows through Brazil and reaches the Atlantic Ocean]
3. Mississippi-Missouri-Red Rock (United States) 3,710 mi [Starts in Canada, flows through Canada & USA and finally reaches the Gulf of Mexico]
4. Chang Jiang (Yangtze) (China) 3,602 mi [fianlly reaches East China Sea]
5. Ob(Russia) 3,459 mi
6. Huang Ho (Yellow) China 2,900 mi
The longest rivers on each Continent are as follows:
Asia: Yangtze (Chang Jiang) - Located in east-central China.
Africa: Nile - Located in north-east Africa.
South America: Amazon - Located in northern South America.
North America: Missouri - Located in the central USA.
Australia: Murray - Located in South Australia.
Antarctica: Onyx - Located in Victoria Land.
Europe: Volga - Located in Russia. (11 cities of Russia are on the banks of Volga including Moscow).
Longest River in India is Ganges.
Some of the major waterfalls of the world:
Name Location
Angel Falls Venezuela (River Gauja) (Highest waterfall in the world).
Iguazu Falls Argentina (River Iguazu)
Victoria Falls Zambia (River Zambezi)
Niagara Falls Canada - USA (River Niagara)
Dettifoss Falls Iceland
Sutherland Falls New Zealand (River Arthur)
Langfoss Falls Norway
Yosemite Falls California (USA) (Yosemite Creek)
Ribbon Falls California (USA)
Dudhsagar Falls India (River Mandovi)
Tin Mine Falls Australia (Tin Mine Creek)
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