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25 best known lakes in North America

25 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 Superior
  2. 2Lake Ontario
  3. 3Lake Michigan
  4. 4Lake Erie
  5. 5Lake Huron
  6. 6Lake Nicaragua
  7. 7Great Slave Lake
  8. 8Lake Winnipeg
  9. 9Great Bear Lake
  10. 10Great Salt Lake
  11. 11Lake Tahoe
  12. 12Lake Athabasca
  13. 13Crater Lake
  14. 14Lake Managua
  15. 15Mono Lake
  16. 16Salton Sea
  17. 17Lake Champlain
  18. 18Lake St. Clair
  19. 19Lake Manitoba
  20. 20Lago de Atitlán
  21. 21Lake Texcoco
  22. 22Lake Nipigon
  23. 23Lake Okeechobee
  24. 24Lake of the Woods
  25. 25Lake Winnipegosis

How well known each lake is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). A lake known far beyond its country has articles in many languages. 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. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia.

On the map

Map of 25 best known lakes in North America, 25 lakes: each one marked on the globe

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