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The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water, as they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and the smallest in surface area (7,340 sq mi, 19,000 km 2), [5] although it exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cu mi, 1,640 km 3). It is the 13th largest lake in the world. When its islands are included, the lake's shoreline is 712 miles (1,146 km) long.
Ontario relief map Lake Superior at Neys Provincial Park Ontario Lake Huron Frozen Lake Erie Looking east across Lake Ontario to Toronto Scarborough bluffs Lake Ontario Lake Nipigon Rainy Lake from Tango Channel. This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an area larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi). [2] [3] [4]
This is a list of cities on the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada, arranged by the body of water on which they are located. Cities with more than 100,000 population are in bold , major cities are italicized .
The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian–American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario.
Toggle Lake Ontario subsection. 6.1 New York. 6.2 Ontario. ... Below is a list of ports in the Great Lakes region, which includes Lake Erie, Lake Huron, ...
Ontario is known for the large number of lakes and rivers it contains. About one-fifth of the world's fresh water can be found in Ontario. [17] Ontario is also known for being the only province in Canada that touches the Great Lakes. Ontario touches four of the Great Lakes: Huron, Lake Ontario (the province is named after the lake), Erie and ...
5 Lake Ontario. 6 Lake Superior. 7 See also. ... This is a list of municipalities on the Great Lakes, arranged alphabetically by the body of water on which they are ...