Great lakes by country on an interactive map — Environment.
The world's largest lakes by surface area — a points layer, 30 lakes in total (top 5 per continent).
Reference geographic sources (GlobeLand30, FAO).
Point size encodes surface area in km².
Lake Superior (82,103 km², straddling the United States and Canada) is the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area — but Lake Baikal (31,500 km², sixth in the world ranking), in Siberia, alone holds more liquid freshwater than all five North American Great Lakes combined: depth, not surface, makes the difference.