Seas, Gulfs and Lakes of the World

Every place on this map

1. Mediterranean SeaSouthern Europe and North AfricaThe sea between Europe, Asia and Africa; Lebanon and Syria border it while Jordan does not.
2. Black SeaWest Asia and EuropeThe inland sea between Turkey, the Balkans, Ukraine, Russia and the Caucasus.
3. Adriatic SeaSouthern EuropeThe arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkans.
4. Aegean SeaGreece and TurkeyThe island-studded sea between Greece and Turkey.
5. Baltic SeaNorthern EuropeThe shallow, brackish, geologically young sea of northern Europe.
6. North SeaNorthwest EuropeThe shallow sea between Britain and north-west Europe, rich in oil and gas.
7. Caspian SeaCentral Asia and West AsiaThe world's largest lake, an inland sea bordered by five states including Iran, Russia and Kazakhstan.
8. Aral SeaKazakhstan and UzbekistanThe former great lake of Central Asia, shrunk to a fraction after the Amu Darya and Syr Darya were diverted for cotton.
9. Lake BalkhashKazakhstanKazakhstan's great lake, half fresh and half salt.
10. Lake BaikalRussiaSiberia's lake: the world's deepest and oldest, holding about a fifth of Earth's unfrozen fresh water.
11. Persian GulfWest AsiaThe gulf between Iran and Arabia, ringed by the oil states.
12. Red SeaNortheast Africa and West AsiaThe long sea between Africa and Arabia, getting very little rainfall.
13. Dead SeaJordan and IsraelThe salt lake between Jordan and Israel, the lowest land point on Earth at about 430 m below sea level.
14. Gulf of AdenYemen and SomaliaThe gulf between Yemen and Somalia, the Red Sea's outlet to the Indian Ocean.
15. Arabian SeaSouth Asia and West AsiaThe sea west of India, saltier than the Bay of Bengal because of high evaporation and few rivers.
16. Bay of BengalSouth AsiaThe world's largest bay, freshened by the Ganga-Brahmaputra and kept low in salinity.
17. Andaman SeaSoutheast AsiaThe sea east of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
18. South China SeaEast and Southeast AsiaThe disputed sea of East and Southeast Asia with the Spratly and Paracel islands.
19. East China SeaEast AsiaThe sea between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
20. Yellow SeaEast AsiaThe sea between China and the Koreas, named for the Huang He's yellow loess silt.
21. Sea of JapanEast AsiaThe sea between Japan, Korea and Russia.
22. Lake VictoriaEast AfricaAfrica's largest lake, on the Tanzania-Uganda-Kenya borders.
23. Lake TanganyikaEast and Central AfricaThe world's longest freshwater lake and second deepest, in the East African Rift.
24. Lake MalawiSoutheast AfricaThe southern Rift Valley lake, also called Nyasa.
25. Lake ChadCentral AfricaThe Central African lake that has shrunk by about 90 percent since the 1960s.
26. Lake FaguibineMaliThe West African lake in Mali that dried up and turned to desert.
27. Great LakesUSA and CanadaThe five USA-Canada lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
28. Lake WinnipegCanadaThe large Canadian lake north of the Great Lakes.
29. Gulf of MexicoNorth AmericaThe warm gulf feeding the Gulf Stream and Atlantic hurricanes.
30. Caribbean SeaCentral America and CaribbeanThe tropical sea of island arcs between North and South America.
31. Sargasso SeaNorth AtlanticThe only sea with no land border, ringed entirely by North Atlantic currents.
32. Lake MaracaiboVenezuelaVenezuela's great oil lake, one of South America's largest.
33. Lake TiticacaPeru and BoliviaThe world's highest navigable lake (about 3,800 m) on the Peru-Bolivia Altiplano.