List of brackish bodies of water

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

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

Africa

 * Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia

Americas

 * 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
 * Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
 * Lake Monroe in Florida, United States
 * Lake Texoma on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States

Asia

 * Caspian Sea
 * Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
 * Pangong Tso Ladakh, India
 * Lake Van, in eastern Turkey
 * Lake Shinji in Japan
 * Lake Hamana in Japan
 * Lake Saroma in Japan
 * Chilika Lake in India

Europe

 * Loch of Stenness in Scotland
 * Lake Mogil'noe on Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
 * Lake Vouliagmeni located south of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece

Africa

 * Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
 * Lake Burullus in the Nile Delta, Egypt

Americas

 * Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States
 * Budi Lake in Araucanía, Chile
 * Indian River Lagoon in Florida, United States
 * Lagoa dos Patos in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
 * Laguna de Términos in Campeche, Mexico
 * Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
 * Simpson Bay Lagoon on the island of Saint Martin
 * Rodeo Lagoon in Marin County, California

Asia

 * Chilika Lake in Odisha, India
 * Kaliveli Lake in Tamil Nadu, India
 * The Kerala Backwaters, a series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala, India
 * Muthupet Lagoon in Tamil Nadu, India
 * Pulicat Lake in Andhra Pradesh, India
 * The Rann of Kutch between Gujarat, India and Sindh, Pakistan

Europe

 * The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
 * The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England
 * Loch Etive in Scotland
 * Loch Long in Scotland
 * Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: an area known as the Camargue
 * Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England

Oceania

 * Kiritimati Lagoon in Kiribati
 * Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora in Canterbury, New Zealand

Estuaries

 * 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
 * Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark
 * Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.
 * 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.