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Lake Baikal is in south-east Siberia. This is the deepest lake in the world at 1,741 m. Contains 20% of all fresh running water on the planet, making it the single largest body of water, containing 23,000 cubic kilometers. The lake is six hundred and forty kilometers long, seventy nine kilometers wide and is the world's largest volume of fresh water of twenty three thousand cubic km. The coastline is about 2,100 kilometers. Lake Baikal has an interesting shape because it is shaped like a banana.

A map of the lake.