# List of brackish bodies of water

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 Monroe in Florida, United States
* 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
* Lake Shinji in Japan
* Lake Hamana in Japan
* Lake Saroma in Japan
* Chilika Lake in India

### 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

### 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 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.