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Lake Baikal
freshwater rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia; the greatest mountain lake in Asia and the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world
Hispaniola
Hispaniola is an island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean, located between Cuba and Puerto Rico. It is the most populous island in the West Indies and the second-largest by land area, after Cuba. Covering an area of , it is divided into two separate sovereign countries: the Spanish–speaking Dominican Republic () to the east and the French and Haitian Creole–speaking Haiti () to the west. The only other divided island in the Caribbean is Saint Martin, which is shared between France () and the Netherlands (). At the time of the European arrival of Christopher Columbus, Hispaniola was home
Mekong River
The Mekong or Mekong River ( , ) is a transboundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of and a drainage area of , discharging of water annually. From its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau, the river runs through Southwest China (where it is officially called the Lancang River), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam. The extreme seasonal variations in flow and the presence of rapids and waterfalls in the Mekong make navigation difficult, though the river remains a major trade ro
Colorado River
major river in the western United States and Mexico
Western Ghats
mountain range along the western coast of India
Bismarck Archipelago
archipelago in the Pacific Ocean north of New Guinea
Salween River
river in Asia
Lake Biwa
freshwater lake in Japan
Danube Delta
river delta in east-central Europe
Tonlé Sap
lake in Cambodia
Inle Lake
lake in Myanmar
Three Parallel Rivers National Park
national park in China
Solomon Islands
archipelago in the South Pacific
Volga Delta
river delta
Lake Poso
lake in Indonesia
Murray–Darling basin
largest drainage basin of Australia
freshwater ecosystem
subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems
Tigris–Euphrates river system
river system in the Middle East
Paraná Delta
river delta in Argentina
Ganges Basin
part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin
Rift Valley lakes
group of lakes in the East African Rift
Río San Juan (Nuevo León)
river in Mexico
Ogasawara subtropical moist forests
terrestrial ecoregion in Japan
Abanda Caves
Set of caves in Gabon