| Name | Area (km²) | Elevation (MAMSL) | Type | Region | Coordinates | Remarks |
|---|
| Lake Abaya | ၁၁၆၂ | ၁၂၈၅ | Freshwater lake | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region | 6°26′00″N 37°53′00″E / 6.4333°N 37.8833°E / 6.4333; 37.8833 | |
| Lake Abbe | ၃၂၀ | ၂၄၃ | Salt lake | Afar Region | 11°10′00″N 41°47′00″E / 11.1666°N 41.7833°E / 11.1666; 41.7833 | |
| Lake Abijatta | ၂၀၅ | ၁၅၇၃ | Salt lake | Oromia Region | 7°37′00″N 38°36′00″E / 7.6166°N 38.6°E / 7.6166; 38.6 | |
| Lake Afambo | ၃၅ | ၃၃၉ | Freshwater lake | Afar Region | 11°25′00″N 41°41′00″E / 11.4166°N 41.6833°E / 11.4166; 41.6833 | |
| Lake Afrera | ၁၀၀ | −၁၀၂ | Salt lake | Afar Region | 13°17′00″N 40°55′00″E / 13.2833°N 40.9166°E / 13.2833; 40.9166 | |
| Lake Ashenge | ၂၀ | ၂၄၀၉ | Salt lake | Tigray Region | 12°34′50″N 39°30′00″E / 12.5805°N 39.5°E / 12.5805; 39.5 | |
| Lake Hawassa | ၁၂၉ | ၁၆၈၆ | Freshwater lake | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region | 7°02′24″N 38°29′16″E / 7.0401°N 38.4879°E / 7.0401; 38.4879 | |
| Lake Bario | ၂၂.၁၆ | ၃၃၉ | - | Afar Region | 11°22′31″N 41°37′33″E / 11.3753°N 41.6258°E / 11.3753; 41.6258 | |
| Lake Basaka | ၄၂.၆ | ၉၅၀ | Salt lake | Oromia Region | 8°52′00″N 39°52′00″E / 8.8666°N 39.8666°E / 8.8666; 39.8666 | |
| Lake Chamo | ၃၁၇ | ၁၁၁၀ | Freshwater lake | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region | 5°50′00″N 37°33′00″E / 5.8333°N 37.55°E / 5.8333; 37.55 | |
| Lake Chew Bahir | ၃၄၃ | ၅၇၀ | Salt lake | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region | 4°43′00″N 36°57′00″E / 4.7166°N 36.95°E / 4.7166; 36.95 | |
| Lake Chomen | ၁၈၀ | ၂၂၂၄ | Reservoir | Oromia Region | 9°31′12″N 37°12′57″E / 9.5199°N 37.2159°E / 9.5199; 37.2159 | |
| Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam | ၁၈၇၄ | ၁၅၅ | Reservoir | Benishangul-Gumuz Region | 11°12′05″N 35°06′32″E / 11.2014°N 35.1088°E / 11.2014; 35.1088 | Under construction on the Blue Nile (2018) |
| Lake Gummare | ၆၀ | - | Freshwater lake | Afar Region | 11°32′00″N 41°40′00″E / 11.5333°N 41.6666°E / 11.5333; 41.6666 | |
| Lake Hayq | ၂၃ | ၂၀၃၀ | Freshwater lake | Amhara Region | 11°20′00″N 39°43′00″E / 11.3333°N 39.7166°E / 11.3333; 39.7166 | |
| Lake Hardibo | ၁၆ | ၂၁၃၆ | Freshwater lake | Amhara Region | 11°14′00″N 39°46′18″E / 11.2333°N 39.7716°E / 11.2333; 39.7716 | |
| Lake Haramaya | - | ၂၀၁၀ | Freshwater lake | Oromia Region | 9°24′18″N 42°00′16″E / 9.4049°N 42.0045°E / 9.4049; 42.0045 | Dried out from 2011 |
| Lake Kadabassa | - | ၅၆၂ | - | Afar Region | 10°12′11″N 40°29′29″E / 10.203°N 40.4914°E / 10.203; 40.4914 | |
| Lake Karum | ၅၀ | −၁၂၀ | Salt lake | Afar Region | 14°01′00″N 40°25′00″E / 14.0166°N 40.4166°E / 14.0166; 40.4166 | |
| Koka Reservoir | ၁၈၀ | ၁၅၉၅ | Reservoir | Oromia Region | 8°26′00″N 39°02′00″E / 8.4333°N 39.0333°E / 8.4333; 39.0333 | |
| Lake Langano | ၂၃၀ | ၁၅၈၅ | Freshwater lake | Oromia Region | 7°36′00″N 38°43′00″E / 7.6°N 38.7166°E / 7.6; 38.7166 | |
| Lake Shala | ၃၂၉ | ၁၅၅၈ | Salt lake | Oromia Region | 7°29′00″N 38°32′00″E / 7.4833°N 38.5333°E / 7.4833; 38.5333 | |
| Lake Tana | ၃၀၆၀ | ၁၇၈၈ | Freshwater lake | Amhara Region | 12°00′N 37°30′E / 12°N 37.5°E / 12; 37.5 | |
| Lake Turkana | ၆၄၀၅ | ၃၆၁ | Salt lake | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region | 3°35′00″N 36°07′00″E / 3.5833°N 36.1166°E / 3.5833; 36.1166 | Most of the lake is in Kenya |
| Lake Zway | ၄၄၀ | ၁၆၃၆ | Freshwater lake | Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
Oromia | 8°00′00″N 38°50′00″E / 8°N 38.8333°E / 8; 38.8333 | |
| Lake Zengena | ၁ | ၂၅၀၀ | Freshwater lake | Amhara Region | 10°54′50″N 36°58′00″E / 10.9138°N 36.9666°E / 10.9138; 36.9666 | Crater lake |
