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25 largest lakes and reservoirs in the Midwest

25 lakes and reservoirs, 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 and reservoirs

  1. 1Lake Superior82,350 km²
  2. 2Lake Huron59,600 km²
  3. 3Lake Michigan57,750 km²
  4. 4Lake Erie25,744 km²
  5. 5Lake of the Woods4,350 km²
  6. 6Lake Oahe1,922 km²
  7. 7Lake Sakakawea1,626 km²
  8. 8Red Lake1,148 km²
  9. 9Lake St. Clair1,114 km²
  10. 10Rainy Lake932 km²
  11. 11Lake Winnebago557 km²
  12. 12Mille Lacs Lake536 km²
  13. 13Leech Lake451 km²
  14. 14Lake Francis Case372 km²
  15. 15Harry S. Truman Reservoir287 km²
  16. 16Bull Shoals Lake252 km²
  17. 17Table Rock Lake239 km²
  18. 18Lake of the Ozarks217 km²
  19. 19Lake Winnibigoshish214 km²
  20. 20St. Marys River202 km²
  21. 21Petenwell Lake168 km²
  22. 22Lake Vermilion159 km²
  23. 23Northern Light Lake155 km²
  24. 24Devils Lake147 km²
  25. 25Lac La Croix138 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. Reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) count along with the natural lakes. The Midwest: the US Census region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. 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.

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