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12 largest lakes in New York

12 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Lake Erie25,744 km²
  2. 2Lake Ontario18,529 km²
  3. 3Lake Champlain1,269 km²
  4. 4Oneida Lake207 km²
  5. 5Seneca Lake173 km²
  6. 6Cayuga Lake172 km²
  7. 7Lake George114 km²
  8. 8Chautauqua Lake53 km²
  9. 9Keuka Lake48 km²
  10. 10Skaneateles Lake45 km²
  11. 11Canandaigua Lake43 km²
  12. 12Owasco Lake26 km²

Surface area in km²: the Largest Lakes set’s figure for its lakes, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Seasonal salt pans keep their recorded figure; their area varies. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out. An item counts for every first-level unit (state, province, county) it touches: a lake or island by its outline, a river by its course, within about 1.5 km; a summit, a cape or anything without a shape by its point.

On the map

Map of 12 largest lakes in New York, 12 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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