Lake Michigan
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- Type: Lake
- Description: one of the Great Lakes of North America
- Also known as: “Lac Dauphin”, “Lac des Eaux de Mer”, “Lac Des Ilinois”, “Lac Ilinois”, “Lacus Ilinois”, “Lake Illinese”, “Le Lac de Saint Joseph”, “Machihiganing”, “Match-I-Hi-Gan-Ing”, “Michigan”, “Misch-i-gon-ong”, “Mishigan Lake”, “Missihiganin”, and “Mitchiganons”
- Historically known as: “Lake Ilinois”
Lake Michigan
- Category: body of water
- Location: Mason, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Michigan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Michiganmeer”
- Arabic: “بحيرة ميشيغين”
- Armenian: “Միչիգան լիճ”
- Asturian: “llagu Michigan”
- Asturian: “Llagu Michigan”
- Azerbaijani: “Miçiqan gölü”
- Balinese: “Danu Michigan”
- Bashkir: “Мичиган”
- Basque: “Michigan”
- Belarusian: “Возера Мічыган”
- Belarusian: “Мічыган”
- Bengali: “মিশিগান হ্রদ”
- Bosnian: “Jezero Michigan”
- Bosnian: “Michigan”
- Breton: “Lenn Michigan”
- Bulgarian: “Мичиган”
- Catalan: “llac Michigan”
- Catalan: “Llac Michigan”
- Catalan: “Michigan”
- Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی میشیگان”
- Chinese: “Michigan Ô͘”
- Chinese: “密執安湖”
- Chinese: “密歇根湖”
- Chinese: “密芝根湖”
- Chuvash: “Мичиган”
- Corsican: “lavu Michigan”
- Corsican: “Michigan”
- Croatian: “Jezero Michigan”
- Croatian: “Michigan”
- Czech: “Michiganské jezero”
- Danish: “Lake Michigan”
- Dutch: “Michiganmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره ميشيجين”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميشيجان”
- Esperanto: “Miĉigano”
- Estonian: “Michigani järv”
- Fiji Hindi: “Michigan Talaab”
- Finnish: “Michiganjärvi”
- French: “lac Michigan”
- French: “Lac Michigan”
- Galician: “Lago Michigan”
- Georgian: “მიჩიგანი”
- Georgian: “მიჩიგანის ტბა”
- German: “Michigan-See”
- German: “Michigansee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Μίσιγκαν”
- Hawaiian: “Loko Mikikana”
- Hebrew: “ימת מישיגן”
- Hindi: “मिशिगन झील”
- Hungarian: “Michigan-tó”
- Icelandic: “Michiganvatn”
- Ido: “Lago Michigan”
- Inari Sami: “Michiganjävri”
- Indonesian: “Danau Michigan”
- Interlingua: “Laco Michigan”
- Irish: “Loch Michigan”
- Italian: “lago Michigan”
- Italian: “Lago Michigan”
- Italian: “lago Micigan”
- Japanese: “ミシガン湖”
- Kabyle: “Agelmim Michigan”
- Kannada: “ಮಿಚಿಗನ್ ಸರೋವರ”
- Kazakh: “Мичиган (көл)”
- Kazakh: “Мичиган”
- Komering: “Danau Michigan”
- Korean: “미시간호”
- Kurdish: “Gola Michigan”
- Latin: “Lacus Ilinorum”
- Latin: “Lacus Michiganus”
- Latvian: “Mičigans”
- Limburgan: “Michiganmaer”
- Lithuanian: “Mičigano ežeras”
- Lower Sorbian: “Michiganski jazor”
- Luxembourgish: “Michiganséi”
- Macedonian: “Мичиген”
- Maithili: “मिचिगन ताल”
- Malagasy: “Farihy Michigan”
- Malay: “Tasik Michigan”
- Malayalam: “മിഷിഗൺ തടാകം”
- Marathi: “मिशिगन सरोवर”
- Mazanderani: “میشیگان دریاچه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Michigan Ô͘”
- Mingrelian: “მიჩიგანი”
- Mongolian: “Мичиган нуур”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ضاية ميشيڭان”
- Nepali: “मिचिगन ताल”
- Northern Sami: “Michiganjávri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Michigansjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Michigansjøen”
- Norwegian: “Michigansjøen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “lac Michigan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Michigan”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܬܐ ܕܡܝܫܝܓܢ”
- Ojibwa: “Michi-gami”
- Ossetian: “Мичиган (цад)”
- Ossetian: “Мичиган”
- Panjabi: “ਮਿਸ਼ੀਗਨ ਝੀਲ”
- Persian: “دریاچه میشیگان”
- Piemontese: “Lagh Michigan”
- Polish: “Michigan”
- Portuguese: “Lago Michigan”
- Quechua: “Michigan qucha”
- Romanian: “Lacul Michigan”
- Russian: “Мичиган”
- Scots: “Loch Michigan”
- Scots: “Michigan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Michigan”
- Serbian: “Мичиген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Michigan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Мичиген”
- Sicilian: “Lacu Michigan”
- Sindhi: “مشي گن ڍنڍ”
- Skolt Sami: “Michiganjäuʹrr”
- Slovak: “Michiganské jazero”
- Slovenian: “Michigansko jezero”
- Spanish: “Lago Michigan”
- Spanish: “Lago Míchigan”
- Swahili: “Ziwa Michigan”
- Swedish: “Michigansjön”
- Tamil: “மிச்சிகன் ஏரி”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบมิชิแกน”
- Turkish: “Michigan Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Мічиган”
- Upper Sorbian: “Michiganski jězor”
- Urdu: “جھیل مشی گن”
- Uzbek: “Michigan (koʻl)”
- Uzbek: “Michigan”
- Venetian: “lago Michigan”
- Vietnamese: “hồ Michigan”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Michigan”
- Võro: “Michigani järv”
- Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Michigan”
- Welsh: “Llyn Michigan”
- Western Frisian: “Michiganmar”
- Western Panjabi: “مِشیگن جھیل”
- Wu Chinese: “密歇根湖”
- Yue Chinese: “密芝根湖”
- “Michigani järv”
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