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==List of major swamps== [[File:Saltpancrk12.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A small swamp in [[Padstow, New South Wales]], Australia]] [[File:Saltpancrk1a.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Inside a [[mangrove]] canopy, [[Salt Pan Creek]], New South Wales]] The world's largest wetlands include significant areas of swamp, such as in the Amazon and Congo River basins.<ref name="P.A. Keddy 2005"/> Further north, however, the largest wetlands are [[bog]]s. ===Africa=== * [[Lake Bangweulu|Bangweulu Swamps]], Zambia * [[Mare aux Songes]], Mauritius* * [[Niger Delta]], Nigeria * [[Okavango Swamp]], Botswana<ref name="LiveScience2013Okavango"/><ref name="SiyabonaAfricaOkavango"/> * [[Sudd]], South Sudan ===Asia=== * [[Asmat Swamp]], Indonesia * [[Candaba Swamp]] in [[Apalit, Pampanga|Apalit]] and [[Candaba, Pampanga|Candaba]], Pampanga and [[Pulilan, Bulacan]], Philippines * [[Mangrove Swamp]] in [[Karachi]], Pakistan * [[Myristica Swamp]] in [[Western Ghats]], India * [[Ratargul Swamp Forest]] in [[Sylhet]], Bangladesh * [[Sundarbans]] in India and Bangladesh<ref name="BBC2011Sundarbans">{{cite news |work=[[BBC News]] |title=India wild tiger census shows population rise |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12877560 |date=28 March 2011 |access-date=2011-02-08 |archive-date=2022-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423062951/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12877560 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Vasyugan Swamp]], Russia * [[Negombo Swamp]], Sri Lanka === Australia === * [[Banksia Swamp]], Victoria, Australia * [[Becher Point Wetlands]], Western Australia * [[Burraga Swamp]], New South Wales, Australia * Coomonderry Swamp<ref>Price, C., & Kelly, A. (2011). ''National Wetlands Update 2011'' (No. 19; Annual Update for Australia’s Wetland Community, p. 56). Australian Government. https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/766781bf-a9d9-4c04-8a96-77bccd2e0426/files/wa-19.pdf</ref> * [[Coastal Swamp Oak Forest]], Queensland/New South Wales, Australia * [[Coastal Upland Swamps]], New South Wales, Australia * [[Cumbung Swamp]], New South Wales, Australia * [[Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps]], New South Wales, Australia * [[Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp]], Victoria, Australia * [[Great Sandy National Park|Noosa Everglades]], Queensland, Australia * [[Toolibin Lake]], Western Australia * [[West Melbourne Swamp]], Victoria, Australia ===Europe=== [[File:Briesetal bei Briese.JPG|thumb|A [[Alnus glutinosa|black alder]] swamp in [[Germany]]]] * [[Pripyat Marshes]], Belarus * [[Šúr]], Slovakia * [[Kopački rit]], Croatia ===North America=== * [[Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge]], Louisiana, United States * [[Big Cypress National Preserve]], Florida, United States * [[Barley Barber Swamp]], Florida, United States * [[Cache River (Illinois)|Cache River]], Illinois, United States * [[Caddo Lake]], Texas/Louisiana, United States * [[Cibuco Swamp]], Puerto Rico * [[Congaree National Park|Congaree Swamp]], South Carolina, United States * [[Everglades]], Florida, United States * [[First Landing State Park]], Virginia, United States * [[Grand Kankakee Marsh]], Indiana, United States * [[Great Black Swamp]], Indiana/Ohio, United States * [[Great Cypress Swamp]], Delaware and Maryland, United States, also known as Great Pocomoke Swamp * [[Great Dismal Swamp]], North Carolina/Virginia, United States * [[Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge]], New Jersey, United States * [[Green Swamp (Florida)|Green Swamp]], Florida, United States * [[Green Swamp (North Carolina)|Green Swamp]], North Carolina, United States * [[Honey Island Swamp]], Louisiana, United States * [[Hudson Bay Lowlands]], Ontario, Canada * [[Limberlost Swamp|Limberlost]], Indiana, United States * [[Louisiana swamplands]], Louisiana, United States * [[Mingo National Wildlife Refuge]], Puxico, Missouri, United States * [[Mobile-Tensaw River Delta]], Alabama, United States * [[Okefenokee Swamp]], Georgia/Florida, United States * [[Pantanos de Centla]], Tabasco/Campeche, Mexico * [[Reelfoot Lake]], Tennessee/Kentucky, United States * [[History of Texas forests|Texas Swamplands]], Texas, United States * [[Tortuguero National Park]], Limón, Costa Rica ===South America=== [[File:Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brasil.jpg|thumb|right|[[Pantanal]] in Brazil]] * [[Caribbean Lowlands]], Colombia * [[Esteros del Iberá]], Argentina * [[Lahuen Ñadi]], Chile * [[Pantanal]],<ref name="NowellJackson1996">{{cite book |editor1=Nowell, K. |editor2=Jackson, P. |year=1996 |url=http://carnivoractionplans1.free.fr/wildcats.pdf |title=Wild Cats. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan |publisher=IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. IUCN |place=Gland, Switzerland |chapter=''Panthera Onca'' |pages=118–302 |access-date=2015-09-07 |archive-date=2019-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205062959/http://carnivoractionplans1.free.fr/wildcats.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay * [[Paraná Delta]], Argentina
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