word | | Geography - note |
| 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 by surface area (8,482 sq km; 3,275 sq mi) |
| Lake | Israel | Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) is an important freshwater source; there are about 355 Israeli civilian sites including about 145 small outpost communities in the West Bank, 41 sites in the Golan ... |
| 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 | ... glaciers (the other is Mount Kenya); 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 |
| Lake | Zambia | landlocked; the Zambezi forms a natural riverine boundary with Zimbabwe; Lake Kariba on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border forms the world's largest reservoir by volume (180 cu km; 43 cu mi) |
| Lake | Zimbabwe | ... the massive Victoria Falls on the river forms the world's largest curtain of falling water; Lake Kariba on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border forms the world's largest reservoir by volume (180 ... |
| 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 the US Government from 1941 to 1995 |
| lakes | Kyrgyzstan | ... mountainous, dominated by the Tien Shan range; 94% of the country is 1,000 m above sea level with an average elevation of 2,750 m; many tall peaks, glaciers, and high-altitude lakes |
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