Top-7 Famous Lakes In The World

Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest of the 5 great lakes in North America. Apart from that, it’s also the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area as it covers 31,700 square miles (82,000 square kilometers). It’s allocated the farthest north and west of the 5 great lakes and is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario and the US states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Even though it’s the largest lake by surface area in the world, it’s only the third-largest lake by volume with a total volume of 2,900 cubic miles (12,000 cubic kilometers). The name for Lake Superior given by the Ojibwe people who used to live along its shores was “gichi-gami” which translates to “great sea.”

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