They have large basins

• Aral and Caspian Seas, really
• Bodies of (usually fresh) water
• Constance and Louise
• Chad and Victoria
• "Land of 10,000 ___" (Minnesota nickname)
• Alaska has over 3,000,000 of them
• Minnesota claim to fame
• Tahoe and Como

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n. (plural of lake English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: lake )

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Lakes ( al-Buhayrat ) was one of the ten states of South Sudan . It has an area of 40,235 km². Rumbek was the capital of the state. Lakes was in the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan, in addition to Northern Bahr el Ghazal , Western Bahr el Ghazal , ...