Lake Okeechobee
Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: freshwater lake in the state of Florida, USA
- Also known as: “Big Water”, “Florida’s Inland Sea”, “Lac de Mayaco”, “Lagoona Mayax”, “Lagoona Mayux”, “Laguna de Maymi”, “Laguna de Miami”, “Lake Macaco”, “Lake Maini”, “Lake Majaco”, “Lake Major”, “Lake Mavaco”, “Lake Mayaimi”, “Lake Maymi”, “Lake Myacco”, “Lake Myaxo”, “Lake O-kee-cho-bee”, and “Lake Okechobee”
Lake Okeechobee
- Category: body of water
- Location: Palm Beach County, Greater Miami, Florida, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Okeechobee from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Okeechobee” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة أوكي تشوبي”
- Armenian: “Օկիչոբի”
- Bulgarian: “Окичоби”
- Catalan: “Okeechobee”
- Chinese: “奥基乔比湖”
- Chinese: “奧基喬比湖”
- Chinese: “歐基求碧湖”
- Chuvash: “Окичоби”
- Czech: “Okeechobee”
- Dutch: “Okeechobeemeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة اوكيتشوبى”
- Esperanto: “lago Okeechobee”
- Esperanto: “lago Okiĉibio”
- Esperanto: “lago Okiĉobi”
- Esperanto: “Lago Okiĉobi”
- Estonian: “Okeechobee järv”
- Finnish: “Okeechobeejärvi”
- French: “lac Okeechobee”
- French: “Lac Okeechobee”
- Georgian: “ოკიჩობის ტბა”
- German: “Okeechobeesee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Οκητσόμπη”
- Greek: “Οκιτσόμπι”
- Greek: “Οουκητσόουμπη”
- Hebrew: “אגם אוקיצ’ובי”
- Hungarian: “Okeechobbee-tó”
- Italian: “lago Okeechobee”
- Italian: “Lago Okeechobee”
- Japanese: “オキーチョビー湖”
- Korean: “오키초비호”
- Latin: “Lacus Okeechobee”
- Latvian: “Okīčobī”
- Lithuanian: “Okičobis”
- Macedonian: “Окичоби”
- Mingrelian: “ოკიჩობი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okeechobeesjøen”
- Norwegian: “Okeechobeesjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه اوکیچوبی”
- Polish: “Okeechobee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Okeechobee”
- Russian: “Окичоби”
- Serbian: “Окичоби”
- Slovenian: “Floridsko notranje morje”
- Slovenian: “Lake Okeechobee”
- Spanish: “lago Okeechobee”
- Spanish: “Lago Okeechobee”
- Swedish: “Lake Okeechobee”
- Turkish: “Okeechobee Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Окічобі”
- Venetian: “lago Okeechobee”
- Welsh: “Llyn Okeechobee”
- Western Frisian: “Okeechobee-mar”
- Western Frisian: “Okeechobeemar”
- Yue Chinese: “奧基喬比湖”
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