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Concept information
Preferred term
named bodies of water
Type
-
Geographical
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Adriatic Sea
- Aegean Sea
- Amazon River
- Andaman Sea
- Arabian Sea
- Arctic Ocean
- Arkansas River
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Barents Sea
- Bay of Bengal
- Bay of Biscay
- Beaufort Sea
- Bering Sea
- Black Sea
- Brazos River
- Caribbean Sea
- Caspian Sea
- Choptank River
- Chukchi Sea
- Colorado River
- Columbia River
- Connecticut River
- Coral Sea
- Danube River
- Delaware Bay
- Delaware River
- East China Sea
- English Channel
- Gambia River
- Ganges River
- Great Lakes
- Great Salt Lake
- Greenland Sea
- Green River
- Gulf of Aden
- Gulf of Alaska
- Gulf of Aqaba
- Gulf of California
- Gulf of Carpentaria
- Gulf of Guinea
- Gulf of Maine
- Gulf of Mexico
- Gulf of Roses
- Hudson Bay
- Hudson River
- Illinois River
- Indian Ocean
- Indus River
- Irish Sea
- James River (Virginia)
- Java Sea
- Jordan River
- Kansas River
- Kara Sea
- Kentucky River
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Belau
- Lake Chad
- Lake Constance
- Lake Geneva
- Lake Lucerne
- Lake Maggiore
- Lake Malawi
- Lake Mead
- Lake Nicaragua
- Lake Tanganyika
- Lake Titicaca
- Lake Victoria
- Marguerite Bay
- Marmara Sea
- McMurdo Sound
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mekong River
- Minnesota River
- Mississippi River
- Missouri River
- Niagara River
- Nile River
- North Sea
- Norwegian Sea
- Ohio River
- Okhotsk Sea
- Orinoco River
- Pacific Ocean
- Paraguay River
- Parana River
- Persian Gulf
- Philippine Sea
- Potomac River
- Puget Sound
- Red Sea
- Rhine River
- Rio Grande River
- Sacramento River
- Saint Lawrence River
- San Joaquin River
- Sargasso Sea
- Savannah River
- Sea of Japan
- Snake River
- South China Sea
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Tasman Sea
- Tennessee River
- Timor Sea
- Tyrrhenian Sea
- Uruguay River
- Wisconsin River
- Yangtze River
- Yellow River
- Yellow Sea
In other languages
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/640
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