Are there any other lakes besides Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake?

Taihu Lake, Chaohu Lake, Qinghai Lake, Hongze Lake, Qiandao Lake.

Now Poyang Lake is bigger. China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, is wide in the south and narrow in the north, resembling a gourd, and there is also a narrow waterway like a bottleneck in the north that communicates with the Yangtze River. Poyang Lake, formerly known as Pengze, is the largest freshwater lake in China and the second largest lake in China.

It is located in the north of Jiangxi Province, on the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with latitude 28°22 to 29°45 north latitude and 115°47 to 116°45 east longitude.

As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, there are documents that record that the Yangtze River diverges into Jiujiang at the junction of Anhui and Jiangxi, forming many lakes, the largest of which is Peng Lize. Today's Poyang Lake is the southern part of the ancient Peng Lize.

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China.

Poyang Lake covers an area of 3,960 square kilometers, and Dongting Lake, at the end of the 90s of the 20th century, according to the calculation of the water conservancy department, has an area of square kilometers (2,740 square kilometers [3]), but it also has more than 1,300 square kilometers of floodway area (one says 10,000 square kilometers [3]) of Hunan, Zi, Yuan, Li and the "four mouths of the Yangtze River". Hope to adopt.

Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. Baiyangdian Hu, a freshwater lake, is not worth mentioning at all, and it is basically not visible on the map of China.

Because most of the area is in Hunan.

Dongting Lake District is located in the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and in the north of Hunan Province. With Dongting Lake as the core, it transitions to the east, south and west into alluvial plains of rivers and lakes, hills and hills around the lake, and low mountains, which is a saucer-shaped basin. In terms of administrative divisions, it includes 10 counties of Yueyang, Huarong, Xiangyin, Nanxian, Anxiang, Hanshou, Lixian, Linli, Taoyuan and Wangcheng, 4 county-level cities of Linxiang, Yuanjiang, Miluo and Jinshi, as well as Yueyanglou District, Junshan District and Yunxi District of Yueyang City, Ziyang District and Heshan District of Yiyang City, Wuling District and Dingcheng District of Changde City, a total of 21 counties and cities, in addition to Songzi, Gong'an, Shishou and other counties and cities in Hubei Province.

Among them, part of Hunan covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers, accounting for 15% of the province's area.

The formation of Dongting Lake

The ancient land in the south of the Yangtze River passes through the section of Dongting Lake in Hunan, called the Dongting Ancient Land, which is faulted and subsided in the crustal movement of Yanshan 100 million years ago to form the Dongting fault basin, and the low confluence into a water body is called Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in China, but the amount of water entering the lake is equivalent to 3 times that of Poyang Lake and 10 times that of Taihu Lake. In the center of the lake, there is a verdant and evergreen hill called Dongting Mountain, from which Dongting Lake got its name. The total area of the lake is about 18,000 square kilometers.

To the south of the lake is Hunan Province and to the north is Hubei Province. During the flood, the lake was like the sea, with an area of 3,900 square kilometers and a volume of 120 billion cubic meters.

In the south, there are Xiangjiang River, Zishui, Yuanshui, Lishui four rivers confluence, in the north there are Songzi, Taiping, Lotus Pond, Tuanxian four mouths and the Yangtze River communicate, and the lake water finally flows into the Yangtze River in Yueyang Chenglingji. It is like a natural reservoir, which accommodates four waters, swallows the Yangtze River, regulates floods, and controls Chu and Wu.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake is relatively small compared to Poyang Lake, and Poyang Lake is relatively large. Dongting Lake covers an area of about square kilometers and is known as "China's second largest freshwater lake", while Poyang Lake covers an area of about 4,070 square kilometers and is known as "China's largest freshwater lake".

Dongting Lake, also known as Yunmeng Bijue, Jiujiang, etc., is located in the north of Hunan, south of the Jingjiang River section in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, named after the Dongting Mountain in the lake (now Junshan), the lake basin has a circumference of about one kilometer, a total volume of about 22 billion cubic meters, and is an important storage lake in the Yangtze River Basin.

Poyang Lake, known as Peng Li, Peng Ze and so on in ancient times, is located in the north of Jiangxi Province, the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the lake basin is formed by the collapse of the earth's crust and continuous siltation, the shoreline of the lake is about 1200 kilometers long, it is a seasonal important lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin.