world's largest freshwater lake by volume
Lake Superior between Michigan and Ontario is the freshwater lake with the largest surface area 82,360 km2 (31,800 square miles). Lake Baikal, located in Siberia, Russia, has a surface area of only 31,727 km2 (12,250 square miles) but it is the lake with the largest water volume in the world, holding about 20% of the world's total fresh water. At 1,620 meters, nearly a mile deep, Lake Baikal is also without doubt the world's deepest lake.