Lakes from above: 30 sourced records

What this topic measures

The Caspian Sea is included as an inland water body. Connected Great Lakes are counted as the separate entries shown in the source. The unit is km². This topic uses ratio scoring: a value half the target and a value twice the target are equally far away, so think in multiplicative bands rather than fixed steps.

A record is a named row in the frozen catalog, not necessarily a unique entity. Some topics contain several records with the same value, and a name round accepts any record at the closest distance. The table below is the complete answer set for this topic; there is no hidden shortlist.

All 30 records

Every row links to the original source used for that record. Values are rounded for display only; the scoring engine uses the stored source value. The snapshot date and unit are part of the topic’s definition, so a current live figure may differ.

The table has 30 rows, one for each accepted record. It does not list every alias or spelling variant; the game’s name matcher handles those at answer time. If two records share a value, both remain separate rows.

The range and the gaps

The 30 records run from 4,848 km² to 389,000 km². The median is 14,450 km², with a middle half from 6,278.3 km² to 30,764.8 km². The largest adjacent gap is 306,900 km² between Lake Superior and Caspian Sea. Every record has a distinct value in this snapshot.

The highest listed records are Caspian Sea (389,000 km²), Lake Superior (82,100 km²), Lake Victoria (59,940 km²). The lowest are Lake Nipigon (4,848 km²), Lake Mweru (5,120 km²), Lake Winnipegosis (5,370 km²). Use these as anchors before you make a ratio or year estimate; the table below gives every value.

What the table does not tell you

These are single snapshot values in km² for 30 large lakes · listed surface area · Caspian Sea included. The table is not a time series, a range of typical values or a measure of uncertainty. A source can round, revise or use a different definition in a later release; the game uses the stored snapshot for every score. Read the source and the record label before treating a value as a current live measurement.

How to estimate this topic

Lake areas are square kilometres of surface area, not shoreline length or volume. Use 1,000 km², 10,000 km² and 80,000 km² bands. Large lakes cluster near the top, so a target above 30,000 km² has few close records.

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Source, licence and snapshot

The listed source is Wikipedia contributors · Lakes by area ↗. Snapshot: 2026-10-24. Licence / attribution: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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