Lake

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest, largest and deepest freshwater lake. Drained, it would take the total volume of all the Great Lakes to refill it.

Source: usgs.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Lake Baikal label sits at 53.5° N, 107.7° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Also labelled Baikal.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Asia — about 1,100 km south-west
• Tian Shan — about 2,600 km west
• Yangtze — about 2,600 km south
• Kamchatka Peninsula — about 3,300 km north-east

Play with it

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