From the Caspian Sea to Lake Huron, here's a list of the top 8 largest lakes in the world
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The Caspian Sea (386,400 square km) is the world's largest lake by both volume and surface area. It's also the world's largest inland body of water
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Superior Lake (82,100 square km) is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest freshwater lake by volume
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Lake Victoria (69,484 square km), located in east-central Africa, is the largest lake in Africa and the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, per Encyclopedia Britannica
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Lake Huron (59,570 square km), situated in North America, is the third largest of the lakes by volume with 3,540 km of water
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Lake Michigan (57,757 square km) is the largest freshwater lake in the United States and the fifth-largest lake in the world by volume
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Lake Tanganyika (32,900 square km), situated in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, is the longest freshwater lake in the world
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Lake Baikal (31,500 square km) in Russia is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing about one-fifth of the fresh water on Earth's surface
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Great Bear Lake (31,328 square km) is the largest lake in Canada and the eighth-largest lake in the world