List of brackish bodies of water
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Bodies of water of brackish nature are found around the world in a wide variety of settings, shapes and sizes. The following is a list of notable bodies of brackish water.
- Baltic Sea (the world’s largest inland brackish sea)
- Black Sea
- Hudson Bay and James Bay
- Salish Sea
- Ariake Sea
Brackish lakes
Africa
- Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia
Americas
- Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
- Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
- Lake Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada[1]
- Lake Maurepas in Louisiana, United States
- Lake Monroe in Florida, United States
- Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
- Lake Titicaca, in the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Peru
- Lake Texoma, on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States
Asia
- Caspian Sea
- Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
- Pangong Tso Ladakh, India
- Lake Van, in eastern Turkey
Europe
- Loch of Stenness in Scotland
- Lake Mogil'noe on Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
- Lake Vouliagmeni located south of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece
Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas
Africa
- Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
- Lake Burullus in the Nile Delta, Egypt
Americas
- Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States
- Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Budi Lake in Araucanía, Chile
- Indian River Lagoon in Florida, United States
- Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
- Lagoa dos Patos in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
- Laguna de Términos in Campeche, Mexico
- Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
- Simpson Bay Lagoon on the island of Saint Martin
- Rodeo Lagoon in Marin County, California
Asia
- Chilika Lake in Odisha, India
- Kaliveli Lake in Tamil Nadu, India
- The Kerala Backwaters, a series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala, India
- Muthupet Lagoon in Tamil Nadu, India
- Pulicat Lake in Andhra Pradesh, India
- The Rann of Kutch between Gujarat, India and Sindh, Pakistan
- Lake Shinji in Japan
- Lake Hamana in Japan
- Lake Saroma in Japan
Europe
- The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
- The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England
- Loch Etive in Scotland[2]
- Loch Long in Scotland[3]
- Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: an area known as the Camargue
- Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England