Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are an important water system of North America for transportation, commerce, and recreation; they lie mostly on the border between the United States of America and Canada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: group of lakes in North America
- Also known as: “Great Lakes of North America”, “Lake Erie”, “Lake Huron”, “Lake Michigan”, “Lake Ontario”, “Lake Superior”, and “Laurentian Great Lakes”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fourteen Foot Shoal Light.
Fourteen Foot Shoal Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Cwbash, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The lighthouse at Fourteen Foot Shoal was named to note that the lake is only 14 feet deep at this point, which is a hazard to navigation, ships and mariners.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cheboygan.
Cheboygan
Cheboygan is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of and the largest settlement in Cheboygan County. At the 2020 census, Cheboygan had a population of 4,770.
Great Lakes
- Categories: group of interconnected lakes, Five Greats, and body of water
- Location: United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Great Lakes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Lakes” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Groot Mere”
- Albanian: “Liqenet e Mëdha”
- Amharic: “ታላላቁ ሀይቆች”
- Arabic: “البحيرات الخمس العظمى”
- Arabic: “البحيرات العظمى”
- Arabic: “البحيرات الكبرى”
- Arabic: “بحيرات عظمى (أمريكا الشمالية)”
- Arabic: “بحيرات عظمى (أمريكا الشماليه)”
- Arabic: “بحيرات عظمى (كندا)”
- Arabic: “بحيرات كبرى”
- Aragonese: “Grans Lacos d’America d’o Norte”
- Armenian: “Մեծ լճեր”
- Armenian: “Մեծ Լճեր”
- Assamese: “বৃহৎ হ্ৰদসমূহ”
- Asturian: “Grandes Llagos”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük göllər”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Göllər”
- Bashkir: “Бөйөк күлдәр”
- Basque: “Aintzira Handiak”
- Basque: “Amerikako Aintzira Handiak”
- Bavarian: “Grousse Seen”
- Belarusian: “Вялікія азёры”
- Bengali: “বৃহৎ হ্রদসমূহ”
- Bhojpuri: “ग्रेट लेक्स”
- Bhojpuri: “बड़की झील”
- Bhojpuri: “बिसाल झील”
- Bosnian: “Velika jezera”
- Breton: “Lennoù Meur Amerika”
- Bulgarian: “Големите езера”
- Burmese: “ဂရိတ်လိတ်”
- Catalan: “Grans Llacs d’Amèrica del Nord”
- Catalan: “Grans Llacs”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچە گەورەکان”
- Chechen: “Даккхий Ӏаьмнаш”
- Chechen: “Доккхий Ӏаьмнаш”
- Chinese: “Gō͘-toā-ô͘”
- Chinese: “五大湖”
- Chuvash: “Мăн кӳлĕсем”
- Cornish: “An Lynnyn Meur”
- Cornish: “Lynnyn Meur Amerika”
- Corsican: “Grandi Lavi”
- Crimean Tatar: “Büyük göller”
- Croatian: “Velika jezera”
- Czech: “Velká jezera”
- Danish: “Store søer”
- Dutch: “Grote Meren”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البحيرات العظيمه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرات عظيمه”
- Esperanto: “Grandaj Lagoj”
- Estonian: “Suur järvistu”
- Faroese: “Stóruvøtn”
- Fiji Hindi: “North America ke barraa talaab”
- Finnish: “Isotjärvet”
- Finnish: “Pohjois-Amerikan Isotjärvet”
- Finnish: “Suuret järvet”
- French: “Grands Lacs d’Amérique du Nord”
- French: “Grands Lacs”
- Galician: “Grandes Lagos, América do Norte”
- Georgian: “დიდი ტბები”
- German: “Great Lakes”
- German: “Grosse Seen”
- German: “Große Seen”
- Greek: “Μεγάλες Λίμνες”
- Guarani: “Yvate Amérika Ypa Guasukuéra”
- Guianese Creole French: “Gran Lak (Amérik di Nò)”
- Guianese Creole French: “Gran Lak”
- Hebrew: “הימות הגדולות”
- Hindi: “विशाल झीलें”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-tavak”
- Icelandic: “Vötnin miklu”
- Ido: “Granda Lagi”
- Iloko: “Nalatak a Dandanaw”
- Indonesian: “Danau-Danau Besar”
- Interlingua: “Grande Lacos”
- Irish: “Na Lochanna Móra”
- Italian: “Grandi Laghi”
- Japanese: “五大湖”
- Kabardian: “Псыхъуреишхуэхэр”
- Kabiyè: “Amerika nɛ hayi kiŋ kujomiŋ”
- Kabyle: “Igelmimen imeqqranen”
- Kabyle: “Igelmimen Imeqranen”
- Kannada: “ಅಮೇರಿಕಾದ ಮಹಾಸರೋವರಗಳು”
- Kannada: “ಮಹಾ ಸರೋವರಗಳು”
- Kazakh: “Ұлы көлдер”
- Kirghiz: “Улуу көлдөр”
- Korean: “오대호”
- Kurdish: “Golên Mezin”
- Ladin: “Gragn Lec”
- Latin: “Lacus Magni”
- Latvian: “Lielie ezeri”
- Limburgan: “Groeate Maere”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Lagos Grande”
- Lithuanian: “Didieji ežerai”
- Lojban: “banli lalxu”
- Low German: “Grote Seen”
- Luxembourgish: “Grouss Séien (Nordamerika)”
- Luxembourgish: “Grouss Séien”
- Macedonian: “Големи Езера”
- Maithili: “विशाल तालसभ”
- Malagasy: “Farihy Lehibe (Amerika Avaratra)”
- Malagasy: “Farihy Lehibe”
- Malay: “Tasik-Tasik Besar Amerika”
- Malay: “Tasik-Tasik Besar”
- Malayalam: “മഹാതടാകങ്ങൾ”
- Marathi: “ग्रेट लेक्स”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gō͘-toā-ô͘”
- Mingrelian: “დიდი ტობეფი”
- Mingrelian: “კაბეტი ტობეფი”
- Mirandese: “Grandes Lagos”
- Mongolian: “Их нуурууд”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الضايات لكبار”
- Nepali: “विशाल ताल”
- Nepali: “विशाल तालहरू”
- Newari: “ग्रेट लेक”
- Newari: “ग्रेत लेक्स”
- Northern Frisian: “Grat Sian”
- Northern Sami: “Stuorra jávrrit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “De store sjøer”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei store sjøane”
- Norwegian: “De store sjøer”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grands Lacs”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܡܬܐ ܪܘܪܒܬܐ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Micelum Merum Norðamerices”
- Ossetian: “Стыр цæдтæ”
- Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਨ ਝੀਲਾਂ”
- Persian: “دریاچههای بزرگ”
- Piemontese: “Grand Lagh”
- Piemontese: “Ij Grand Lagh”
- Polish: “Wielkie Jeziora Północnoamerykańskie”
- Polish: “Wielkie Jeziora”
- Portuguese: “Grandes Lagos da América do Norte”
- Romanian: “Marile Lacuri”
- Russia Buriat: “Ехэ нуурнууд”
- Russian: “Великие американские озёра”
- Russian: “Великие озёра”
- Russian: “Великие североамериканские озёра”
- Rusyn: “Великы озера”
- Samogitian: “Dėdlė̅jė ežerā”
- Scots: “Great Lochs”
- Serbian: “Велика језера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velika jezera”
- Slovak: “Veľké kanadské jazerá”
- Slovenian: “Velika jezera”
- South Azerbaijani: “بؤیوک گؤللر”
- Spanish: “Grandes Lagos”
- Swahili: “Maziwa makubwa ya Amerika Kaskazini”
- Swahili: “Maziwa makuu ya Amerika Kaskazini”
- Swedish: “Stora sjöarna”
- Swiss German: “Großi See”
- Tachelhit: “Iglmamn mqqurnin”
- Tagalog: “Gran Lagos”
- Tagalog: “Mga Malalaking Lawa”
- Tamil: “அமெரிக்கப் பேரேரிகள்”
- Tatar: “Бөек күлләр”
- Telugu: “మహా సరస్సులు”
- Thai: “เกรตเลกส์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Große Seen”
- Turkish: “Büyük Göller”
- Turkmen: “Beýik köller”
- Udmurt: “Быдӟым тыос”
- Ukrainian: “Великі озера”
- Ukrainian: “Великі Озера”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wulke jězory”
- Urdu: “عظیم جھیلیں”
- Uzbek: “Buyuk koʻllar”
- Venetian: “Grandi Laghi de l’Amèrica”
- Venetian: “Grandi Laghi de la Merica”
- Veps: “Sured järved”
- Vietnamese: “Năm Hồ Lớn”
- Vietnamese: “Ngũ Đại Hồ”
- Võro: “Suur järvistü”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dagko nga mga Danaw”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mga Dumagko nga Danaw”
- Welsh: “Y Llynnoedd Mawr”
- Western Frisian: “Grutte Marren”
- Western Panjabi: “وڈیاں جھیلاں”
- Wu Chinese: “五大湖”
- Yakut: “Улуу күөллэр”
- Yiddish: “גרויסע אזערעס”
- Yue Chinese: “五大湖”
- “Dėdlė̄jė ežerā”
- “Granne Laghe”
- “Lèg grand”
- “Suur järvistü”
- “telo suli pi ma Amelika lete”
- “ग्रेट लेक्स”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Great Lakes”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pointe Aux Pins and Pries Landing.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lighthouse Point and Cheboygan Point.
United States: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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