What do you consider to be the largest lake in the world?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Lake Superior is the largest by area.

Lake Baikal is the largest by volume.

Although hydrologically speaking, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are the same lake (all the other great lakes were connected by rivers while those two exist at the same water level) and they're combined surface area is larger than that of Lake Superior (although Lake Superior still has more volume).

Mackinaw Strait

Lake Superior

Lake Baikal

Lake Michigan-Huron

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largest *freshwater lake in the world?

[DizzyDesii]

Hmm I don't know. Never been to a lake. Have you been to the pink lakes on the other side of AU

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

No not yet.

[abc3643]

The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world by area and by volume and it's not even close.

[Dargil]

Baikal has the most fresh water of any body in the world.

[Dargil]

Tanganyika is second and being part of the Rift Valley in East Africa, will become, over millennia, the largest and then become a new sea/ocean.

[KostasKouvalis]

I actually consider the Caspian Sea the world's largest lake, and geographers agree. It may be salty, but it's still a landlocked body of water, which makes it a lake

[exitseven]

lake superior. It is the biggest by surface area.

[rachel776]

the Caspian Sea