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Tengiz
Tengiz, or Lake Tengiz (Kazakh: Теңіз, meaning "sea"), is a large salt lake with no outlet in north-central Kazakhstan, a Ramsar and World Heritage site hosting the northernmost greater flamingo colony.
Wular Lake
Wular Lake, a large freshwater lake in Kashmir, India, fed by the Jhelum River; a Ramsar site since 1990, major fishery and flood buffer, now heavily shrunk and under restoration by WUCMA.
Yamdrok
Yamdrok (Yamdrok Yumtso, Yamdrok-tso) is a sacred closed inland lake on the southern Tibetan Plateau at 4,441 m, area 638 km2, with a 90 MW pumped-storage hydropower station; its level fell 5.1 m during 2000-2023.
Zhaling Lake
Zhaling Lake (Chaling Sea, 'white long lake') is a 4,291 m freshwater tectonic lake in Golog, Qinghai, China, the second largest lake in the Yellow River source area, a Ramsar Site (no. 1442, 64,920 ha) within Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve.