name the largest freshwater lake in the world
So, we will explore the question from a few different perspectives. Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume. It contains about 5521 cubic miles of water (23,000 cubic kilometers), or approximately 20% of Earth's fresh surface water.he largest lake in the United States on the basis of water volume is Lake Superior with a volume of 2904 cubic miles (12,100 cubic kilometers). Lake Michigan-Huron has the largest surface area in the United States at 45,410 square miles (117,611 square kilometers). Contributor: Hobart King.