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
Brackish lakes
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Tidal lagoons, marshes, and deltas
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
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 â Estuary, Marsh, & Creek Life â South Carolina Coast
- Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark
- RÃÂo de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.
- Saint Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, the part downstream from ÃÂle d'Orléans 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
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