New Delhi: Asia is the continent with major countries and has thousands of huge rivers and water bodies.It is home to some deep natural lakes. The deepest lakes exists from thousands of years, and the deepest is the maximum depth of the lakes.Here is a list of the top 5 deepest lakes in the world: 1. Baikal, Russia Lake Baikal is located in Southern Siberia the Russo-Mongolian border. Famous for being the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 5,369 feet, it holds a volume of water larger than that of all the great lakes combined. 2. Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika is the deepest freshwater lake in Africa and the second deepest in the world with a maximum depth of 4,823 feet. It is divided between Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (45%), Tanzania (41%) and Zambia. 3. Caspian Sea It is the third deepest lake in the world, going down to 3,363 feet.It is located between between the southern areas of the Russian Federation and northern Iran. 4. Lake Vostok Out of the 140 sub-glacial lakes on earth, Vostok is the largest and the deepest, with a maximum depth of 2,950 feet. It is located beneath Russia's Vostok Station, 13,000 feet under the surface of the central Antarctic ice sheet. 5. O'Higgins/San Martín Lake This lake is called O'Higgins in Chile and San Martin in Argentina.. It is located in Patagonia, between the Aysén Region and the Santa Cruz Province. It is the deepest lake in the Americas with a maximum depth of 2,742 feet (measured near the O'Higgins Glacier).
