🌿 Lake Baikal

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Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast.

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Lake Baikal is a natural World Heritage site in Russia, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Lake Baikal was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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