Countries with Large Lakes

47 of the 172 countries in Geo Atlas answer yes to the question “Does the country have a lake larger than 1000 km²?”. They are spread across 6 continents, mostly Africa (16). The largest is Russia (17,098,242 km²) and the smallest Rwanda (26,338 km²). The most populous is China with 1.4 billion people; together these countries are home to about 3.8 billion people. Each country below links to its full geography profile — then try to find them all on the map in a game.