Top 7 Biggest Swimming Pool In The World

Ever since we were little, were we exposed to the benefit of learning how to swim and were taught how to do it eventually. Knowing how to swim is considered an important skill to have and it can come to good use in desperate times.

Usually, a swimming pool will be a safe place to learn how to swim with the guidance of a trainer. In history, the earliest swimming pool that was known and open to the public was built more than 5000 years ago and many people did not look back ever since.

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Swimming pools will always be a recreational place for many water sports that are more convenient compared to lakes and oceans. With current technologies, humans are capable of building a much bigger swimming pool and at the same time, the water is safe for us.

Here we would like to share with you the top 7 biggest swimming pools in the world.

7. Hansen Dam Recreation Center

The Hansen Dam Recreation Center is located in Los Angeles, United States of America. This swimming pool is open to the public and is considered the best swimming pool in California. The Hansen Dam Pool has a coverage area of 1 acre (6,100 square meters) and is situated at the retention basin near Hansen Dam.

Aside from the swimming pool, this recreation center also has a 9-acre lake where people can go fishing and kayaking but swimming is prohibited in the lake. This swimming pool started to become operational and opened to the public in 1998.

6. Hayman Island Resort

Even though Hayman Island Resort is situated on tropical Hayman island in Australia, this resort has one of the biggest swimming pools in the world. The swimming pool here is around 1.8 acres (7,284.34 square meters) and the resort also has many rooms to choose from with a direct view of the massive swimming pool.

There is a resort at Hayman Island that is located at the Great Barrier Reef since the 1940s and the hotel was built back in 1987. Hayman Island is considered a very small one with a coverage area of 400 hectares and only 4km in length and 3 km wide.

5. Piscine Alfred Nakache

Piscine Alfred Nakache is not only the biggest swimming pool in France but also all over Europe. This pool was named in commemoration of the French Olympic swimmer, Alfred Nekache and its size is 1.85 acres (7,500 square meters). On top of that, the Piscine Alfred Nakache is 12.5 meters wide and has a depth of 2 meters.

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The swimming pool is now open to the public with a small entrance fee and people can also be part of their membership program to get a discount. They also organize several community events and classes for adults and children to learn how to swim.

4. Dreamworld Fun Lagoon

Dreamworld Fun Lagoon is the biggest freshwater poll in the world with a size of 2.2 acres (8,903.08 square meters). This swimming pool is located at the Dreamworld Resort, Hotel, and Golf in Karachi, Pakistan.

Aside from its awesome swimming pool, Dreamworld also has its very own man-made beach which is believed to be the first one as such in Pakistan. Dreamworld's Fun Lagoon is big enough to occupy 8.14 million liters of water.

Due to its big capacity, many people can rent some of the sports equipment available here such as the canoe, boats, and slide balloons.

3. MahaSamutr

The swimming pool in MahaSamutr, a huge villa, and a private club are located in Hua Hin, Thailand where the pool is considered the biggest one in Asia. The MahaSamutr swimming pool is another project that was built by Crystal Lagoon which is a company that specializes in building saltwater pools wherever in the world.

The pool in MahaSamutr has a whopping size of 17.8 acres (72,034.04 square meters) and is the first project of Crystal Lagoon company in Thailand. MahaSamutr was designed by a well-known Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma and the price of the villa here is around $1.2 million to $2.5 million.

2. San Alfonso del Mar

The swimming pool in Sal Alfonso del Mar holds the previous record of the world's biggest swimming pool. But this record was beaten by another project that was built by Crystal Lagoon in 2012. San Alfonso del Mar has a size of 19 acres (80,000 square meters) and can accommodate 250 million liters of water.

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Similar to all swimming pool built by Crystal Lagoon, San Alfonso del Mar consist of saltwater. Aside from being huge in terms of water volume, this pool is also considered the longest stretching out for more than 1km.

1. Citystars Sharm El Sheikh

In 2012, Crystal Lagoon company has built the biggest swimming pool in the world situated at the Citystars Sharm El Sheikh Pool and Spa Scene in Egypt. Many media companies have stated that the pool is 30 acres (121,406 square meters) but according to the Guinness World Records, Sharm El Sheikh is only 23.83 acres (96,437 square meters).

The Citystars Sharm El Sheikh pool also holds the record for the biggest man-made lagoon in the world. The water here is also saltwater and it comes from a well that is found in the desert where the water can be obtained naturally.

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