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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

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

Brackish lakes

Africa Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia

Americas Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States Lake Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada Lake Maurepas in Louisiana, United States Lake Monroe in Florida, United States Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States Lake Titicaca, in the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Peru Lake Texoma, on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States

Asia Caspian Sea Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan Pangong Tso Ladakh, India Lake Van, in eastern Turkey

Europe 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

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

Americas 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 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 Lake Shinji in Japan Lake Hamana in Japan Lake Saroma in Japan

Europe The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England Loch Etive in Scotland Loch Long in Scotland Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: an area known as the Camargue Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England

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

Estuaries

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 Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay. Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from Île d'Orléans 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 List of bodies of water by salinity

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