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.

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• Baltic Sea (the world’s largest inland brackish sea)
• Black Sea
• Hudson Bay and James Bay
• Salish Sea
• Ariake Sea

• 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^[4]
• Ringkøbing Fjord in Midtjylland, Denmark
• Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay.^[5]
• 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.

• List of bodies of water by salinity