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List of 62 Most Important Lakes in India (State Wise)

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Updated : Jul 2, 2018, 11:00

By : Arpit Kumar Jain

Lake is a surface water body which is surrounded by land. Rivers will be outlet or inlet to the lakes
i.e. lakes take the water from rivers or act as a source of water. Lakes are found in various
landscapes like Hilly areas, plains, plateaus, rift zones, etc. In this article, we will read state wise list
of Natural Lakes in India.

Natural Lakes in India (State Wise)

A) There are various types of lakes which can be classified based on different criteria – They are
Fresh Water Lakes, Salt Water lakes, Natural Lakes, Artificial Lakes, oxbow lake, Crater Lake etc.

Note-

Crater Lake- Formed due volcanic activity

Oxbow Lake- Formed by river deposits

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List of 62 Most Important Lakes in India (State Wise)

List of 62 Most Important Lakes in India (State Wise)

B) Lakes have various applications like drinking water, irrigation, navigation, water storage, livelihood
(fishing, etc.), impact on microclimate, etc.

Important Facts

Largest freshwater lake in India – Wular Lake, Jammu and Kashmir

Largest Saline water lake in India – Chilka Lake, Orissa
Highest lake in India (Altitude) – Cholamu lake, Sikkim

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Longest Lake in India – Vembanad lake, Kerala

Largest Artificial Lake in India – Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)

Lakes in India

Type of
S.No. Name State District Facts/De
Lakes

It encom
Pulicat L
Andhra Brackish Sanc
1 Pulicat Lake Sullurpet
Pradesh Water Satish
Space
locate

Andhra Home to
2 Kolleru Lake Vijayawada Freshwater
Pradesh bi

Artif
Andhra
3 Nagarjuna Sagar Nalgonda Freshwater constr
Pradesh
Krishn

4 Haflong Lake Assam Silchar Freshwater High alti

Under
5 DeeporBeel Assam Kamrup Freshwater
Conv

Freshwater
Largest w
6 Son Beel Assam Karimganj (Tectonically
Ass
formed)

Migrato
(win
7 Chandubi lake Assam Kamrup Freshwater
formed
earth

Asia’s
Oxbow
8 Kanwar Lake Bihar Begusarai freshwat

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(freshwater)
la

Situated
9 Hamirsar lake Gujarat Kutch Artificial
of B

Durin
centu
10 Kankaria lake Gujarat Ahmedabad Artificial
Muhamm

Artificial Pilgrimag
11 Narayan Sarovar Gujarat Kutch
freshwater Hin

Constru
12 Thol Lake Gujarat Mehsana Lentic lake
irrigation

Narmad
13 Vastrapur Gujarat Ahmedabad Freshwater
Picni

14 Badkal Lake Haryana Faridabad Freshwater Man

Migrato
15 Blue Bird Lake Haryana Hisar Freshwater
Wetland

Ancient w
16 Brahma Sarovar Haryana Thaneswar Freshwater sacr
Hind

Constru
British go
17 Damdama Lake Haryana Sohna Freshwater
for Ra
Harv

Conne
18 Karna Haryana Karnal Freshwater grea
Mahab

Freshwater
Locate
19 Tilyar Haryana Rohtak (canal
Tilya

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inflow)

Himachal Lahul and Sweetwater Ramsar

20 Chandra Taal
Pradesh Spiti lake s

Freshwater
Himachal Lahul and
21 Suraj Taal (High Bhaga R
Pradesh Spiti
Altitude)

Himachal
22 MaharanaPratapSagar Kangra Freshwater Rams
Pradesh

Himachal Holomitic It has a

23 Prashar lake Mandi
Pradesh (Freshwater) Isl

Warm Remnan
24 Dal lake J &K Srinagar
monomitic glacia

Endorheic
25 Pangong Tso J &K Ladakh Lake (saline Indo-Chi
water)

Tectonic
Largest f
26 Wular lake J &K Bandipora lake (fresh
lake i
water)

27 TsoMoriri J &K Ladakh Saltwater High alti

Loca
28 Agata lake Karnataka Bangalore Freshwater southwe
the

29 Bellandur Lake Karnataka Bangalore Freshwater  

30 Karachi lake Karnataka Mysore  - Butter

It has
31 Ulsoor lake Karnataka Bangalore Stale water
isla

32 Kukarahalli lake Karnataka Mysore Freshwater Recre

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Holy lak
33 Honnamana Karnataka Kodagu Freshwater for va
fest

34 Pampa Sarovar Karnataka Hampi Freshwater Tungabh

Brackish Ramsar
35 Ashtamudi Kayal Kerala Kollam
water s

Alappuzha, Backwa
36 Kuttanad Kerala  
Kottayam cultiv

Brackish Ramsar
37 Vembanad Kerala  -
water boat

38 Shashtamkotta Kerala Kollam Freshwater Ramsar

Rams
Madhya.
39 Bhojtal Bhopal Freshwater largest
Pradesh
lake i

40 Salim Ali Maharashtra Aurangabad Freshwater Birdwa

41 Shivsagar Maharashtra Satara Freshwater Koyn

Nation
42 Lonar lake Maharashtra Buldhana Crater lake Her
monu

Ramsar
Phumdis
Lenticular
43 Loktak lake Manipur  - Isla
freshwater
Multip
pro

Famous
44 Umiam Meghalaya Shillong Freshwater
and b

45 Tam Dil Mizoram Saitual Freshwater  

India's

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Brackish
46 Chilika lake Orissa Puri brackis
water
lake;

Wetla
47 Kanjia lake Orissa Bhubaneswar Freshwater nat
impo

Ramsar
48 Harike Punjab Ferozepur Freshwater
s

Manmad
49 Rupar Punjab Rupnagar Freshwater
la

Ramsar
50 Kanjli Punjab Kapurthala Freshwater
s

Ramsar
Sambhar larges
51 Sambhar lake Rajasthan Saltwater
Lake-town saltwate
In

52 Rajsamand Rajasthan Rajsamand Freshwater  

53 Tsomgo lake Sikkim East Sikkim Freshwater Winter

Sacred
54 Khecheoplari Sikkim West Sikkim Freshwater Hindu
Budd

55 Ooty lake Tamilnadu Nilgiris Freshwater Boat

56 Chembarambakkam Tamilnadu Chennai Artificial lake  

Artificial
57 Hussain Sagar Telangana Hyderabad Artificial lake
rock

58 Badrakali lake Telegana Warangal Freshwater Artific

Govind Ballabh Pant Uttar Man-made

59 Sonbhadra Rihan
Sagar Pradesh lake

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Uttar
60 Belasagar Kulpahar Freshwater Irrigati
Pradesh

Medium
61 Bhimtal Uttarakhand Nainital Freshwater
la

West Brackish
62 East Calcutta wetlands Calcutta Ramsar
Bengal water

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