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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 edit

Map of the Baltic Sea

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

Brackish lakes edit

Africa edit

Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia

Americas edit

Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada
Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
Lake Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada^[1]
Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
Lake Monroe in Florida, United States
Lake Texoma on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States

Asia edit

Europe edit

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 edit

Map of Lake Chilka, India's largest lake, classified as a brackish water body

Oceania edit

Estuaries edit

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^[4]
Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark
Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.^[5]
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.

References edit

^ Last, William M.; Slezak, Laurie A. (1988). "The salt lakes of western Canada: A paleolimnological overview" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 158: 301–316. doi:10.1007/BF00026286. S2CID 21394879 – via cc.umanitoba.ca.
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^ "Lowcountry Estuarium — Window on the Waters". lowcountryestuarium.org. Archived from the original on 2015-07-10.
^ Seeliger, Ulrich; Björn Kjerfve (2001). Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America. Springer. pp. 185–204. ISBN 978-3-540-67228-9.