Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five of . It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume, after Lake Superior and .
Wikipedia
  • Lake
  • …has a surface elevation of 581 feet (177 metres)
  • …was formerly known as “Lake Ilinois”
  • 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”
    “Mitchiganons”
  • Category: body of water
  • Location
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Latitude
44.00778° or 44° 0′ 28″ north
Longitude
-86.75698° or 86° 45′ 25″ west
Open location code
86PM265V+46
Geo­Names ID
5001835
Wiki­data ID
Q1169

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Michigan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Michiganmeer”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة مشيغان”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة ميشيغين”
  • Armenian: “Միչիգան լիճ”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Michigan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Miçiqan gölü”
  • Balinese: “Danu Michigan”
  • Bashkir: “Мичиган”
  • Basque: “Michigan”
  • Belarusian: “Мічыган”
  • Bengali: “মিশিগান হ্রদ”
  • Bosnian: “Jezero Michigan”
  • Bosnian: “Michigan”
  • Breton: “Lenn Michigan”
  • Bulgarian: “Мичиган”
  • Catalan: “Llac Michigan”
  • Catalan: “Michigan”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی میشیگان”
  • Chinese: “密執安湖”
  • Chinese: “密歇根湖”
  • 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”
  • Galician: “Lago Michigan”
  • Georgian: “მიჩიგანი”
  • Georgian: “მიჩიგანის ტბა”
  • German: “Michigan-See”
  • 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 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”
  • Newari: “लेक मिसिगन”
  • Northern Sami: “Michiganjávri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Michigansjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Michigansjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Michigansjøen”
  • 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 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”
  • 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”
  • “telo suli Misikan”

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