Bodies of water of brackish nature are found around the world in a wide variety of settings, shapes and sizes. The following is a list of notable bodies of brackish water.
Brackish seas
Baltic Sea (the world’s largest inland brackish sea) Black Sea Hudson Bay and James Bay Salish Sea Ariake Sea
Brackish lakes
Africa
Lake Turkana in Kenya and Ethiopia
Americas
Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada
Laguna de Oviedo in the Dominican Republic
Lake Charles in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
Lake Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada
Lake Maracaibo in Zulia State, Venezuela
Lake Monroe in Florida, United States
Lake Texoma on the border between Oklahoma and Texas, United States
Asia
Caspian Sea
Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan
Pangong Tso Ladakh, India
Lake Van, in eastern Turkey
Lake Shinji in Japan
Lake Hamana in Japan
Lake Saroma in Japan
Chilika Lake in India
Europe
Loch of Stenness in Scotland
Lake Mogil'noe on Kildin Island, north of Murmansk, Russia
Lake Vouliagmeni located south of Athens, Vouliagmeni, Greece
Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas
Africa
Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria
Lake Burullus in the Nile Delta, Egypt
Americas
Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States
Budi Lake in Araucanía, Chile
Indian River Lagoon in Florida, United States
Lagoa dos Patos in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
Laguna de Términos in Campeche, Mexico
Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States
Simpson Bay Lagoon on the island of Saint Martin
Rodeo Lagoon in Marin County, California
Asia
Chilika Lake in Odisha, India
Kaliveli Lake in Tamil Nadu, India
The Kerala Backwaters, a series of lagoons and lakes in Kerala, India
Muthupet Lagoon in Tamil Nadu, India
Pulicat Lake in Andhra Pradesh, India
The Rann of Kutch between Gujarat, India and Sindh, Pakistan
Europe
The Burgas Lakes near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
The Fleet lagoon in Dorset, England
Loch Etive in Scotland
Loch Long in Scotland
Parts of the Rhône Delta, France: an area known as the Camargue
Widewater, a land-locked lagoon near Lancing, England
Oceania
Kiritimati Lagoon in Kiribati
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora in Canterbury, New Zealand
Estuaries
Amazon River, empties so much freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean that it reduces the salinity of the sea for hundreds of kilometres Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. It is the drowned river valley of the Susquehanna River. It is the largest estuary in the United States. Delaware Bay, an extension of the Delaware River in New Jersey and Delaware, the United States Great Bay, an extension of the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States The Lower Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, the United States East River and Harlem River in New York, the United States Lingding Yang, Guangdong, China Miramichi River, New Brunswick, Canada Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States (also the only known place in the world where jubilees regularly occur [see Mobile Bay Jubilee]) Port Royal Sound part of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, The Lowcountry Estuarium – Estuary, Marsh, & Creek Life – South Carolina Coast Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay. Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from Quebec City and Saguenay respectively, Canada San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay adjacent to San Francisco in California, United States The Thames Estuary in South East England, United Kingdom The Tagus Estuary near Lisbon, Portugal
The Reversing Falls of the Saint John River, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.