Here’s a list of the top 10 largest lakes in the world, showing their relative area compared to Lake Windermere. Incredibly, four are in the same country.

Paratethys deemed Earth's largest known lake by Guinness World Records Megalake Paratethys formed 12 million years ago and stretched from the eastern Alps of Europe to what is now Kazakhstan in ...

Biggest Saltwater Lake in the World: The Caspian Sea is the largest saltwater lake in the world. It spreads across five countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan.

By the time the 1980s ended, the lake had already split in two. The Large Aral was located in the south, still on the border, and the Small Aral was now completely in Kazakhstan.