word | | Geography - note |
| Lake | Chad | landlocked; Lake Chad is the most significant water body in the Sahel |
| Lake | Djibouti | strategic location near world's busiest shipping lanes and close to Arabian oilfields; terminus of rail traffic into Ethiopia; mostly wasteland; Lac Assal (Lake Assal) is the lowest point in Africa |
| Lake | Dominica | ... extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second-largest, thermally active lake in the world |
| Lake | Ethiopia | ... Blue Nile, the chief headstream of the Nile by water volume, rises in T'ana Hayk (Lake Tana) in northwest Ethiopia; three major crops are believed to have originated in Ethiopia: coffee ... |
| Lake | Ghana | Lake Volta is the world's largest artificial lake |
| Lake | Israel | ... as well as 42 sites in the Golan Heights, 0 in the Gaza Strip, and 29 in East Jerusalem (July 2008 est.); Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) is an important freshwater source |
| Lake | Malawi | landlocked; Lake Nyasa, some 580 km long, is the country's most prominent physical feature |
| lake | Peru | shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake, with Bolivia; a remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316 m peak, is the ultimate source of the Amazon River |
| Lake | Tanzania | ... Kilimanjaro is highest point in Africa; bordered by three of the largest lakes on the continent: Lake Victoria (the world's second-largest freshwater lake) in the north, Lake Tanganyika (the world ... |
| Lake | Trinidad and Tobago | Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt |
| lakes | Belarus | landlocked; glacial scouring accounts for the flatness of Belarusian terrain and for its 11,000 lakes |
| lakes | Bermuda | consists of about 138 coral islands and islets with ample rainfall, but no rivers or freshwater lakes; some land was leased by US Government from 1941 to 1995 |
| lakes | Kyrgyzstan | landlocked; entirely mountainous, dominated by the Tien Shan range; many tall peaks, glaciers, and high-altitude lakes |
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