Lake
Caspian Sea
The largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth. Saline and endorheic, it is technically a lake, and its legal classification as sea or lake has real consequences for resource rights among its five littoral states.
Key facts
- Surface area
- approximately 371,000 km²
- Volume
- approximately 78,200 km³
- Salinity
- approximately 12 PSU — about a third of seawater
Relationships
- Located in: Kazakhstan
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted