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Great Lakes

Group of lakes in North America

Placegroup of interconnected lakes Five GreatsQ7347

Also known as Great Lakes of North America

Country: United States
, Canada
Area: 208,610 km²
Located in/on physical feature: North America

Overview

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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. The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes. The lakes connect ultimately to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River as their primary drainage outflow. The lakes are also connected to the Mississippi River basin through the Illinois Waterway.

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Members / parts: Lake Superior
Lake Michigan–Huron members / parts: Lake Michigan, Lake Huron
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Outflows: St. Lawrence River
Volume as quantity: 22,725 cubic kilometre
Different from: ChiPitts
Great Lakes Megalopolis
Native label: Great Lakes
Drainage basin: Great Lakes drainage basin
Grammatical number: plural

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43 identifiers linking Great Lakes across the web's reference databases

45.7500, -84.0000OpenStreetMap ↗

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