Here are the 272 lakes we have listed - compared by Largest acreage. Suggest a new lake.
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Lake Michigan-Huron
(Ontario, Great Lakes, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin) |
29,062,400 | Lake Michigan and Lake Huron share the same elevation of 577 feet above sea level, and they are connected by the five-mile-wide Straits of Mackinac. Hydrologically, this makes the two a single lake that some designate as Lake Michigan-Huron. We list the combined entity here to acknowledge that some ... |
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Lake Superior
(Ontario, Great Lakes, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) |
20,288,000 | Lake Superior is the largest, deepest, coldest, cleanest, least developed, and most pristine of all the Great Lakes. Lake Superior is the world's largest freshwater lake measured by surface area -- and the world's fourth largest measured by volume. Its lowest depth, 1,333 feet beneath its surface ... |
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Lake Victoria
(Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) |
17,000,350 | Lake Victoria -- also known as Victoria Nyanza, Ukerewe, and Nalubaale -- rakes in the superlatives: it is the largest lake on the African continent, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. Joined by five others, Lake Victoria is one ... |
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Lake Huron
(Ontario, Great Lakes, Michigan) |
14,726,400 | A glacial lake of epic proportions, Lake Huron is the second largest of the five Great Lakes by surface area, boasting 23,010 square miles and an incredible 3,825-mile shoreline. The massive lake is the third largest of the Great Lakes by water volume, containing 850 cubic miles of fresh water within ... |
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Lake Michigan
(Great Lakes, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin) |
14,336,000 | As the only Great Lake nestled completely within the boundaries of the United States, Lake Michigan is the pride and joy of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The lake boasts a huge area of 22,400 square miles, making it the largest freshwater lake (by surface area) in the world to be contained ... |
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Lake Baikal
(Irkutsk) |
7,782,336 | Russia's national treasure, Lake Baikal, is the world's deepest lake and the world's largest freshwater lake measured by water volume. Its bottom is 4,215 feet below sea level, and it contains about 1/5 of Earth's unfrozen surface freshwater. Also known as the "Pearl of Siberia", the "Blue Eye of Siberia", ... |
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Lake Erie
(Great Lakes, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio) |
6,261,500 | Lake Erie, the 11th-largest lake in the world and one of the Great Lakes of North America, straddles the borders of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and the Canadian province of Ontario. The lake is named after the Native American tribe that inhabited its shores before being killed off by the ... |
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Lake Ontario
(Ontario, Great Lakes, New York) |
4,697,600 | Lake Ontario is the last of the chain of North America's Great Lakes that straddle the Canada/USA border. Its shoreline is bordered by the Province of Ontario on the Canadian side and by New York State on the U.S. side. Lake Ontario is the world's 14th largest lake, but the smallest of the Great ... |
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Great Salt Lake
(Utah) |
1,088,000 | Sometimes called "America's Dead Sea," the Great Salt Lake occupies approximately 1,700 square miles of Utah's real estate. The lake is actually the largest remnant of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville, and has a salinity much higher (saltier) than ocean water. Despite its nickname, however, the lake ... |
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Lake of the Woods
(Manitoba, Ontario, Minnesota) |
950,400 | Spanning the border from Minnesota into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, Lake of the Woods is an enormous body of water over 68 miles long, 59 miles wide, with 25,000 miles of shoreline. The western part of the lake is mostly open water, while the eastern part is dotted with more than ... |