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<pstyle="padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Generalized from 10 million lakes theme. The 10 million lakes primarily derive from World Data Bank 2 with numerous reservoir additions from imagery sources. Diminishing areal extent of Aral Sea and Lake Chad was digitized from recent satellite imagery.</p>
<pstyle="padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px;">Ranked by relative importance, coordinating with river ranking. Includes name attributes.</p>
<p><em>(right) Lakes and reservoirs in Argentina and Brazil.</em></p>
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<p>Areal Sea is probably lower now than what is shown.</p>
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