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.

## Brackish seas

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Map of the Baltic Sea

* Baltic Sea (the world’s largest inland brackish sea)
* Black Sea
* Hudson Bay and James Bay
* Salish Sea
* Ariake Sea

## Brackish lakes

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### Africa

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* Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia

### Americas

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* 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 Texoma on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States

### Asia

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* Caspian Sea
* Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
* Pangong Tso Ladakh, India
* Lake Van, in eastern Turkey
* Lake Shinji in Japan
* Lake Hamana in Japan
* Lake Saroma in Japan
* Chilika Lake in India

### Europe

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* 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

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Map of Lake Chilka, India's largest lake, classified as a brackish water body

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

### Africa

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* Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
* Lake Burullus in the Nile Delta, Egypt

### Americas

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* 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

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* 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

### Europe

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* 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

### Oceania

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* Kiritimati Lagoon in Kiribati
* Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora in Canterbury, New Zealand

## Estuaries

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* Amazon River, empties so much freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean that it reduces the salinity of the sea for hundreds of kilometres
* Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. It is the drowned river valley of the Susquehanna River. It is the largest estuary in the United States.
* Delaware Bay, an extension of the Delaware River in New Jersey and Delaware, the United States
* Great Bay, an extension of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
* The Lower Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, the United States
* East River and Harlem River in New York, the United States
* Lingding Yang, Guangdong, China
* Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada
* Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States (also the only known place in the world where jubilees regularly occur [see Mobile Bay Jubilee])
* Port Royal Sound part of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, The Lowcountry Estuarium – Estuary, Marsh, & Creek Life – South Carolina Coast[4]
* Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark
* Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.[5]
* Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from Quebec City and Saguenay respectively, Canada
* San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay adjacent to San Francisco in California, United States
* The Thames Estuary in South East England, United Kingdom
* The Tagus Estuary near Lisbon, Portugal

* The Reversing Falls of the Saint John River, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

## See also

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* List of bodies of water by salinity

## References

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1. ^ Last, William M.; Slezak, Laurie A. (1988). "The salt lakes of western Canada: A paleolimnological overview" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 158: 301–316\. doi:10.1007/BF00026286. S2CID 21394879 - via cc.umanitoba.ca.
2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-29.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-29.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. ^ "Lowcountry Estuarium — Window on the Waters". lowcountryestuarium.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10.
5. ^ Seeliger, Ulrich; Björn Kjerfve (2001). Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America. Springer. pp. 185–204\. ISBN 978-3-540-67228-9.