List of lakes of India

This is a list of notable lakes in India.^[1]

Bhopal is knowns as The City of Lakes, as it has 17 lakes and 5 reservoirs, biggest lake Bhojtal has an area of 31 km²

Bangalore has highest number of small lakes

Lake Palace (Jag Niwas) in Lake Pichola, Udaipur, Rajasthan

Shikaras on Dal Lake, Jammu & Kashmir

Boats on Naini Lake, Kumaon, Uttarakhand

House boat on Vembanad Lake, Kerala

Sailing on the Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh, India

Spot-billed pelican at Pulicat Lake, Andhra Pradesh

Chandubi Lake, Assam

Pangong Lake, Ladakh

Thol Lake, Gujarat

Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh

The ghats of Pushkar Lake, Rajasthan

Suraj Tal, Himachal Pradesh

Manasbal Lake, Kashmir

Umiam Lake, Shillong, Meghalaya

Tsomoriri, Ladakh

Sumendu Lake, Mirik, West Bengal

Damdama Lake, Haryana

Hussain Sagar, Hyderabad, Telangana

A bird flying over Hesaraghatta Lake in Bangalore, Karnataka

Upper Lake (Bhopal), Madhya Pradesh

Loktak Lake, Manipur

Lesser Flamingos at Chilika Lake, Orissa

Gurudongmar Lake, Sikkim

Ropar Wetland, Punjab

Nakki Lake, Mount Abu, Rajasthan

Kodaikanal Lake, Tamil Nadu

Emerald Lake, Ooty, Tamil Nadu

Rabindra Sarobar, Kolkata, West Bengal

Shivasagar Lake, Maharashtra

Tsongmo Lake, Sikkim

Andhra Pradesh

Assam

Bihar

Chandigarh

Sukhna Lake

Goa

Gujarat

Haryana

Himachal Pradesh

Bhrigu Lake (4235 m)
Chandra Taal (4300 m)
Chander Naun (4260 m)
Dashair Lake (4270 m)
Dal Lake
Dehnasar Lake (4280 m)
Dhankar Lake (4270 m)
Ghadhasaru Lake (3470 m)
Gobind Sagar
Kamrunag Lake (3334 m)
Kareri Lake (2934 m)
Lama Dal (3960 m)
Mahakali Lake (4080 m)
Manimahesh Lake (4080 m)
Nako Lake (3662 m)
Pong Dam Lake
Prashar Lake (2730 m)
Rewalsar Lake
Suraj Tal (4883 m)

Ladakh

Kerala

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur

Loktak Lake
Pumlenpat
Ikop Pat
Loukoipat
Yaralpat
Laphupat
Shilempat
Keisampat (Extinct)
Porompat (Extinct)
Zaimeng Lake
Zeilad Lake

Meghalaya

Umiam Lake

Mizoram

Odisha

Victoria Sagar Lake
Anshupa Lake
Chilka Lake
Kanjia Lake

Puducherry

Punjab

Rajasthan

Ajmer

Udaipur

Sikkim

Tamil Nadu

Adambakkam Lake
Coimbatore
- Singanallur Lake
- Ukkadam Lake Periyakulam Lake
Berijam Lake
Chembarambakkam Lake
Kaliveli Lake
Kodaikanal Lake
Ooty Lake
Perumal Eri
Red Hills Lake
Sholavaram Lake
Veeranam Lake
Maduranthakam Lake
Tandi Lake

Telangana

Uttar Pradesh

Gobind Vallabh Pant Sagar, largest man–made lake of India
Barua Sagar Tal
Belasagar Lake
Keetham Lake
Ramgarh Tal Lake
Bakhira Tal Lake
Sarsai Jheel
Moti Jheel
Sheetal Jheel
Surha Tal
Phulhar Lake

Uttarakhand

Name	District	Type	Size km²	Size Acres	Quality	Notes
Tehri Lake^[3]	Tehri Garhwal	Man-made	52	12849.50	Freshwater	Created by Tehri Dam, in New Tehri
Bhimtal Lake	Nainital district	Man-made	.48	118.61	Freshwater	Created from masonry dam in Nainital Distt
Nainital Lake	Nainital district	Natural	.48	118.61	Freshwater	Kidney shaped natural freshwater lake in Nainital
Roopkund Lake	Chamoli	Natural	0.0015	0.37	Freshwater	High altitude glacial lake in Chamoli. Also called Skeleton Lake.
Deoria Tal	Rudraprayag	Natural			Freshwater	Known for its wide 300° panorama
Suryadhar Lake	Dehradun district	Man-made	.55	0.135908	Freshwater	Freshwater lake in Nainital Dehradun dist
Kedar Tal		Natural			Freshwater

West Bengal

References

↑ Reddy, M. S.; Char, N. V. V. (10 March 2004). "Annex 2. List of Lakes". Management of Lakes in India (PDF). LakeNet's World Lakes Website. pp. 19–20.
↑ "National wetland status for Son Beel". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 10 December 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
↑ "Tehri Lake". euttaranchal.com. Retrieved 17 May 2022.

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