Largest lakes & reservoirs in Poland by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 9 articles we have published for Poland lakes.
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Below are lakes within Poland > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Poland, only the 9 Poland lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name | Water vol. in ac-ft | Lake description |
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Masurian Lakes District, Poland (Northern Poland, Poland, Warmia-Masuria Region, Northern Poland) |
527,693 ac-ft | The Masurian Lake District of Poland is the most sought-after vacation destination in central Europe for lake lovers. Containing over 2000 lakes, most… |
Lake Sniardwy (Northern Poland, Poland, Warmia-Masuria Region, Northern Poland) |
516,458 ac-ft | Lake Sniardwy is located in the Masurian Lake District of northeastern Poland and is the largest lake in the country. With 27,182 acres of crystal blu… |
Drawskie Lake District (Northern Poland, Poland, West Pomerania Region, Northern Poland) |
268,706 ac-ft | (Also known as Drawsko Lake District, Drawskie Lakeland) In northern Poland, over 250 lakes are showcased in the Drawskie Lake District’s environmentally diverse landscape. Mountains tower in their alpine be… |
Lake Niegocin (Northern Poland, Poland, Warmia-Masuria Region, Northern Poland) |
209,587 ac-ft | (Also known as Niegocin Lake) Located in an area dubbed “a land of a thousand lakes,” Lake Niegocin is one of more than 2,000 lakes in the Masurian Lake District of northeastern Po… |
Lake Zegrze (Central Poland, Masovia Region, Central Poland, Poland) |
89,694 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Zegrzynski, Zegrzynski Reservoir, Zalew Zegrzynskie) Lake Zegrze, or more precisely Zalew Zegrzynski, is one of the largest artificial reservoirs in the Masovian Province of central Poland. The reservoir… |