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25 largest 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 Superior82,350 km²
  2. 2Lake Huron59,600 km²
  3. 3Lake Michigan57,750 km²
  4. 4Great Bear Lake31,153 km²
  5. 5Great Slave Lake27,209 km²
  6. 6Lake Erie25,744 km²
  7. 7Lake Winnipeg24,400 km²
  8. 8Lake Ontario18,529 km²
  9. 9Lake Nicaragua8,264 km²
  10. 10Lake Athabasca7,850 km²
  11. 11Reindeer Lake6,500 km²
  12. 12Lake Winnipegosis5,164 km²
  13. 13Nettilling Lake5,051 km²
  14. 14Lake Nipigon4,848 km²
  15. 15Lake Manitoba4,624 km²
  16. 16Great Salt Lake4,400 km²
  17. 17Lake of the Woods4,350 km²
  18. 18Dubawnt Lake3,833 km²
  19. 19Amadjuak Lake3,115 km²
  20. 20Lake Melville3,069 km²
  21. 21Iliamna Lake2,622 km²
  22. 22Lake Mistassini2,335 km²
  23. 23Wollaston Lake2,286 km²
  24. 24Nueltin Lake2,033 km²
  25. 25Southern Indian Lake2,015 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. 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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