Rivers are natural waterways. A form of water.

Lakes are either artificially mined or naturally formed.

2. Different water sources

Rivers belong to all waterways in China, and water comes from the main stream and groundwater.

The water in a river is usually fresh water, which may originate from glaciers and high terrain and flow to the low-lying sea, ocean, lake, underground fissure or another waterway. Or because the inflow of intermediate water is less than evaporation or it does not meet other water bodies and dries up.

The water source of the lake comes from natural precipitation and groundwater.

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Caspian Sea: Although it is called the sea, it is a lake with an area of 37 1 1,000 square kilometers.

Lake Superior: located in the United States, Canada (with an area of 82,400 square kilometers) and Lake Victoria: located in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania (with an area of 69,000 square kilometers).

Aral Sea: Located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (covering an area of 64,000 square kilometers).

Lake Huron: Located in the United States and Canada (covering an area of 59,600 square kilometers).

Lake Michigan: Located in the United States (covering an area of 58,000 square kilometers).

Lake Tanganyika: It is located in Zaire, Tanzania, Burundi and Zambia (with an area of about 32,900 square kilometers).

Lake Baikal: Located in Russia (with an area of about 3 1500 square kilometers).

Great Bear Lake: Located in Canada (area 3 1080 square kilometers).

Lake Malawi: Located in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania (with an area of 30,800 square kilometers), the largest lake in China is Qinghai Lake (with an area of 4,500 square kilometers).

The largest freshwater lake in the world

Lake Baikal is located in Russia and is the deepest lake in the world. Located at the junction of the United States and Canada, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world. The Caspian Sea is much bigger than Lake Superior, so the biggest lake in the world is the Caspian Sea. North America is a continent with many lakes, and the total area of freshwater lakes is about 400,000 square kilometers, ranking first among all continents.

Lakes are mainly distributed in the northern half of the mainland. The five great lakes in the central plateau-Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, with a total area of 245,273 square kilometers, are the largest freshwater lakes in the world and are known as the "Mediterranean of North America". Among them, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world.

The largest freshwater lake in China.

Poyang Lake, Poyang Lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is the largest freshwater lake in China, covering an area of 3,583 square kilometers. Poyang Lake, formerly known as Pengze, covers an area of 39 14 square kilometers. It is the largest freshwater lake in China. It receives water from five rivers: Jiangxi, Fuzhou, Guangxi, Raohexiu and flows to the Yangtze River. It is wide in the south and narrow in the north, like a huge gourd tied to the waist of the Yangtze River, and its flow into the Yangtze River exceeds.

Poyang Lake has vast smoke and beautiful water plants. There are a large number of precious fish roaming in the Yangtze River basin, and many precious birds inhabit here every year, making the scenery of Poyang Lake more pleasant.

Moreover, Poyang Lake has been a gathering place for literati since ancient times, and many poets have left immortal poems here, such as Wang Bo's "Fishing boats sing late and resound all over the coast of Peng Li" and Su Dongpo's "The mountains are grey, the water is boundless, and the aunts are in the river", all of which describe the scenic spots of Poyang Lake. The famous scenic spots of Poyang Lake are Shi Zhongshan, Dagushan, Nanshan and Luoxing Lake.

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