Hydrosphere is necessary for life, and fresh water is especially important for humanity. Its main sources are rivers and lakes, which abound on our planet. True, they are not very evenly distributed – somewhere there are many of them, but somewhere they are not at all, or they dry out during the hot season. While there have never been any water problems in the Nordic countries, this problem is particularly acute in most African countries. Rivers and lakes are life!
This question is not so easy to answer, because no one worked on the exact calculation due to the laboriousness of this work. However, in the first approximation, the picture is quite clear. In total, by the way, on Earth, according to various estimates, from 10 to 12 million lakes, and the first place in their number is …
Canada! Lakes here more than three million. An impressive figure, right? (see facts about Canada). What are the only Great Lakes, the pride of the country of the maple leaf. Russia. There are more than two million lakes on the territory of our country, but no one has bothered to accurately calculate somehow. At the same time, even though Russia is inferior to Canada in the number of lakes, but surpasses it in their total area. And, of course, we must not forget about Lake Baikal, the deepest and deepest freshwater lake in the world.
Finland. Despite its modest size, almost 190 thousand lakes fit in the territory of this country, and they cover about 9% of the entire Finnish territory. Considering how Finns care about ecology, we can safely say that their country is really insanely beautiful.
Sweden. The lakes here are about the same as in Finland, and they occupy about the same in percentage terms the area of the country as there. So to whom to give third place, and to whom the fourth – a moot point.
