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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; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
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 .
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
The state has 11,037 inland lakes comprising 1,305 square miles (3,380 km 2) of inland water. No point in Michigan is more than 6 miles (9.7 km) from an inland lake or more than 85 miles (137 km) from one of the Great Lakes. [5] The state's numerous rivers are generally short and shallow, though several are navigable by recreational watercraft.
* New York has both ocean and Great Lakes coastline. This is a list of U.S. states and territories ranked by their coastline length. 30 states have a coastline: 23 with a coastline on the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine), and/or Pacific Ocean, and 8 with a Great Lakes shoreline.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area [a] and the third-largest freshwater lake by volume, [12] holding 13% of the fresh water in all of the world's rivers and lakes.
These Mardi Gras trivia questions and answers will impress your pals and enlighten you on some of the fun and history behind Fat Tuesday. Related: Let Them Eat (King) Cake!
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, or simply St. Lawrence Lowlands, is a physiographic region of Eastern Canada that comprises a section of southern Ontario bounded on the north by the Canadian Shield and by three of the Great Lakes — Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario — and extends along the St. Lawrence River to the Strait of Belle Isle [1] and the Atlantic Ocean.